Border Harriers Open T & F Carlisle 15th September 2002

Six younger athletes from Richmond and Zetland Harriers competed in the Border Harriers Open Medals T&F meeting at Sheepmount Stadium, Carlisle on Sunday 15th and brought seven medals home between them. Sean Osborn was best pleased with both medals and PBs in both his events - gold in the 400m and silver in the 200m. Rebecca Shaw collected medals in all three of her events - golds in both the 60m and 600m plus a bronze in the cricket ball. Aaron Shaw, not quite back to his best after a pulled hamstring at the Tartan Games, still threw the javelin far enough to win silver and sister Raegan, in only her second competitive outing, won a bronze in the 80m.

RZH marks: under 9 girls - Rebecca Shaw 60m 10.3, 600m 2:18.2 & cricket ball 12m91; under 11 girls - Raegan Shaw 80m 12.6 & long jump 2m74; under 11 boys - Tom Osborn 80m 13.3 & 600m 2:13.7; under 13 girls - Leanne Shaw 100m 15.1 & 200m 31.7; under 15 boys - Sean Osborn 200m 29.2 & 400m 60.3; under 17 boys - Aaron Shaw javelin 37m63.

Wakefield T & F 22nd September 2002

The last end-of-season competition was at Wakefield last Sunday and four girls opted for one last track race before they started their cross-country seasons. Twins Jessica and Scarlett Gray were both rewarded with PBs in the 800m - Jessica winning gold with a time of 2:35.8 and Scarlett the silver with 2:37.7. Leanne Shaw ran in the 200m and younger sister, Rebecca, was just outside the medals in 4th place.

Cross Country Open Races Sunderland 15th September 2002

Roberts' and Scotts' at Sunderland

The X-C season started with the Sunderland Harriers Open Races and Relays at Farringdon School on Sunday last in unusually fine weather. The meeting started with a new event, a one-mile race for under 11s with medals for the first six boys and girls. Two youngsters ran their first race for the Club - Niall Scott of Leeming finished 6th and eight-year-old Fergus Roberts of Northallerton was 8th. The following races were over the traditional 1.8 mile course around parkland adjacent to the school playing fields and the hard ground resulted in some very fast times. Douglas was the second of the Roberts family to compete and he finished 2nd, best result on the day, in the under 13 boys race with a time of 11:24. Sister Jessie ran in the under 15 girls race and finished 3rd in 11:59 after outsprinting the chasing pack in the run-in. Paul Roberts, their Dad, was the fourth member of the family to run and he too made his competitive debut for the Harriers “B” team in the Senior & Veteran Men’s Relay Race. The RZH “A” team finished 5th (Shaun Purkiss 10:45, Jon Orange 10:22, Dan Brooks 10:46 & Robin Carter 10:51), the Veteran’s team were 14th overall and 3rd in category (Ian Scott 10:55, Chris Peacock 11:14, “Taff” Rogers 11:42 & Jim Robinson 11:54) and the “B” team were one behind in 15th place (Brian McNabb 11:02, Mike Brooks 12:12, Paul Roberts 12:05 & Jerry Springer 10:34). The Ladies Race was last on the card for the Club and it proved to be “race of the day” for Morag Macdonald of Chester-le-Street as she won in a course record time of 10:40. Behind her, Rachel Robinson placed 12th in 12:25, two places and fifteen seconds in front of Louise Jackson.