Joseph Dewar (Photo by Ken Bray)

ATHLETICS

BUDDING athlete Joseph Dewar showed signs of his promising potential with a brilliant individual display at day one of the Essex county track and field championships.

The 12-year-old Woodford Green Athletic Club with Essex Ladies prodigy collected three of his team's six medals during the event at Thurrock.

The youngster broke his personal best for two of his three events in the boys U13, running 26.98secs in the 200m, recording 4.97m in the long jump, and clocking a new county record of 12.68secs to win the 75m hurdles.

Gold medals were also won by Alex Cornwell, who added to his growing trophy collection with a 4mins 3.65secs run in the U17 1500m, and Anthony Oshodi with a throw of 48.00m in the U17 discus.

Woodford also had a one-two finish in the boys U17 200m, with Aiden Lee's 22.41secs (PB) just pipping Sam Watts' 22.51secs effort.

Meanwhile, Woodford finished fourth at the first National Young Athletes League Southern Premier meeting held at Ashton Playing Fields.

Just 36 points separated fourth from first, Reading out in front with 377.50 points, closely followed by Norwich (375), Croydon (358) and Woodford (341.50).

Woodford's young athletes produced many good performances, including an outstanding performance by Joseph Dewar in the U13 boys.

He won the 200m sprint A in 27.2secs (Grade 2), 75m hurdles A in 13.1secs (Grade 1) and long jump A at 4.31m (Grade 3), and also anchored the 4x100m relay team which included Elliot Joseph, Raphel Duke-Okeze and Connely Bullock to a win in 55.6secs.

Triple winners were Sam Moodie in the girls U17 A high jump (1.60m), pole valt A (2.60m.) and hammer B (18.15m), and Rachel Dean in the girls U17 A long jump (4.66m), triple jump A (10.47m) and 80m hurdles B (13,709 sec).

There were also wins for:
Austin Joseph - u17 200m A (23.5secs)
Paul Scanlan - u17 400m A (51.3secs)
Ben Philips - u17 800m B (2m4.7secs)
Sam Turner - u17 Javelin A (52.41m)
Thomas Richards - u17 Javelin B (44.17m)
Connely Bullock - u13 Shot B (6.16m)
Charlie Stocking - u13 High Jump A (1.34m)
Natasha Matthews - u17 100m B (13.3secs)
Tayte Walker - u17 200m B (27.6secs) and u17 Long Jump B (4.43m)
Rebbeca Samuels - u17 300m B (46.7s)
Chloe Galloway - u17 300m Hurdles A (46.0s) and u17 Javelin A (28.81m)
Cherice McKay - u17 Shot Putt A (8.77m)
Francesca Herbert - u17 Pole Vault A (2.70m)
Georgina Ferrari - u15 800m A (2m26.8secs)
Hanna Patti-Belleli - u13 70m Hurdles B (13.2secs)

8:25am Thursday 8th May 2008

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