Buckinghamshire Track and Field Championships

The Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Track and Field Championships took place at Milton Keynes for the first time in many years at the weekend. Saturday saw warm temperatures and sunshine whilst Sunday was blustery and chilly.
 
There were many excellent Chiltern performances and a good medal count.

Saturday
100m and 1500m races took up a good chunk of the day. Jonathan Hildingsson Oshlyansky and Arthur Evora gained useful experience to be sixth and seventh in the U14 Boys 100m. Nia Beckford, who had a busy weekend, ran well for silver in the U14 Girls 100m. Bronwen Harman and Charlotte Smart qualified for the U16 Girls 100m final and were seventh and eighth in it. Abi Masters was fourth in the U18 Women’s 100m. Emile Morti won a high quality U18 Men’s 110m hurdles with an ESAA qualifier of 14.37. Issy Robinson won silver in the U18 Women’s 400m in a PB of 61.18.
 
The female 1500m races saw great success for Chiltern’s athletes. The U14 Girls saw a 1-2-3 with all three medallists gaining PBs: Aura Lue Fong winning in 5.13.48, Sunaya Nanda second in 5.14.70, and Lottie Monnington third in 5.20.59. Remarkably the U16 Girls race was also a Chiltern triple with Maya Davis victorious in 4.52.06, Juliette MacDougall winning silver in 4.57.11, and Nell Frost bronze in 4.58.35. All three girls were slightly off PB territory in a tactical race. Evelyn Wildman was a comfortable winner of the U18 Women’s race in an impressive time and ESAA qualifier of 4.34.81. Jack Turner won U20 Men’s 1500m in a PB 4.35.20, just holding off dad Neil, who won the Men’s Vet 50 race, also in a PB of 4.35.54.
 
The U14 Boys 1500m saw good runs from Barnaby Williams, fifth, Jack Dixon, 11th and Thomas Cooper 14th. The U16 Boys in Bucks has good strength in depth at middle distance this year and the 1500m was run as two time trials. Overall Harrison Lawrence was fifth, Isaac Taylor 12th, John Rooney 13th and Isaac McCall, suffering with heel pain, 15th. In the U18 race Edward Johnson was fifth, James Malin ninth and Charlie De Sousa 11th.
 
In the field there was a win in U14 Girls Javelin from Lottie Monnington in a PB of 18.30m. There were medals in U14 Javelin for Jack Dixon (silver) and Thomas Cooper (bronze). Arthur Evora and Thomas Cooper both scored PBs in U14 Boys Long Jump. Bronwen Harman was third in U16 Javelin in a PB of 18.56m.
 
Sunday
In U14 Girls 200m Lyla Russell won gold in 27.50 and Nia Beckford was also a winner in U14 Girls 200m hurdles. George Aliaj ran well for fourth in U14 Boys 200m, and Abi Masters won silver in U18 Women’s 200m in 28.67. Ffion Harman won U20 Women’s 400m hurdles in 70.58. Nia Beckford also won U14 Girls 75m hurdles and was fourth in high jump. Bethan Lloyd won silver in U16 Girls 80m hurdles in 13.22. George Aliaj won gold in U14 Boys shot with a PB of 7.53m and James Woodgate was third in U14 Boys high jump with 1.40m.
 
Aura Lue Fong gained her second medal of the weekend to win silver in U14 Girls 800m. The other three Chiltern girls ran PBs, Millie Killingback, eighth in 2.51.27, Amelia Hanstein, 11th in 2.52.32, and Anna Whitty, 14th in 2.59.32. Alice Martin won silver in U16 Girls 800m and Nia Clarke was seventh. The U18 Women’s 800m race saw another medal for Issy Robinson, winning bronze in a season’s best 2.23.48.
 
In U14 Boys 800m, which was another race determined by two time trials, Barnaby Williams had another good run to be seventh in a PB of 2.25.53. Harvey Cartledge was 14th in 2.31.66 and Jonathan Kalibbala 16th in 2.44.84. The U16 Boys saw another good effort from Harrison Lawrence, just off his PB with 2.12.41 to be seventh. John Rooney was ninth in a PB of 2.20.61. James Malin and Edward Johnson came back to be fifth and sixth respectively in the U18 Men’s 800m race.
 
Other County Champs
 
Hertfordshire
Jack Dalton ran on Saturday in the U14 Boys 800m heats at Watford. Jack made the final as a non-automatic qualifier in a PB of 2.23.17 and was an excellent fifth in the final on Sunday just outside that time. Callum Powell ran a PB of 2.02.44 to be third in the U20 Men’s 800m.
 
Middlesex
James Henderson was third in the U18 Men’s 3000m on Sunday at Lee Valley in a good time of 9.53.29.