Kent County Athletic Association Cross Country Championships
Detling Saturday 5th January 2008
The Winning Senior Men's Team
Report
Men
Mike Coleman produced arguably his greatest Kent Championships performance to take the title for the 5th time in a row and was followed home by Neil Renault in 2nd place. As well as these outstanding individual performances many of the team also put together excellent races. But perhaps the most pleasing outcome from the day was the fact the team held it together to win both the 6 to score and 12 score team titles, despite pressure from both Blackheath and Tonbridge.
It was also good to see both the Under 20 men and Under 17 men pick up team bronze medals. The younger men fielded a number athletes and acquitted themselves well in tough competition.
Women
Unsurprisingly the senior women’s team could not match last year’s 1-5 whitewash but they did well to pick up silver medals. Despite having a good chance of winning the title on paper, the Under 20 women suffered from late withdrawals and with only two finishers no team scored. In the Under 17 race Kate French finished 8th and led the team to silver medals and a special mention goes to Rebecca Collins who feel in the race but got to finish 18th. The Under 15 girls narrowly missed out on bronze medals and an inexperienced team of under 13 girls did well to finish a scoring team.
Results
Senior Men 12400m
1 Mike Coleman 40:12
2 Neil Renault 40:45
8 Pat Curran 42:02
13 Barry Royden 42:46
14 Adrian Lowther 42:57
25 Nick Slade 45:27
32 Daniel Evans 46:10
36 Lee McMeekin 47:00
37 Ian Reid 47:03
44 Robert Fursey 47:34
46 Gareth Williams 48:04
51 Josh Nice 48:56
63 Phil Wallace 50:24
79 Stuart Flack 51:23
80 Adrian Moody 51:37
106 Alun Rogers 53:54
111 Steve Whiting 54:12
121 Pat Finn 55:25
6 to score
1 Medway & Maidstone AC 63
2 Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC 73
3 Tonbridge AC 77
12 to score
1 Medway & Maidstone AC 309
2 Tonbridge AC 350
3 Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC 577
Junior Men 7200m
2 Ben Tyler 25:15
11 Matthew Breeds 26:53
12 James Hogg 26:54
29 Luke Bailey 30:00
3 to score
1 Tonbridge AC 18
2 Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC 22
3 Medway & Maidstone AC 25
Under 17 Men 6300m
9 Josh Enderfield 22:50
21 Nathan Wilkins 24:37
24 James Myatt 24:45
27 Joe Green 24:49
36 Nathan Breeds 26:14
4 to score
1 Tonbridge AC 13
2 The Judd School 53
3 Medway & Maidstone AC 81
Under 15 Boys 4200m
15 David Ryan 16:29
33 Mark Cryer 17:59
34 Amreek Dhindsa 18:02
35 Andrew Watkin 18:04
37 Joel Jennings 18:10
43 Tom Weeden 18:25
4 to score - 6th Team
Under 13 Boys 3200m
19 Christian Walker 13:27
34 Martin Richards 14:17
37 Ross Hyland 14:22
41 Christian El-Shamna 14:51
4 to score – 6th team
Senior Women
6th Louise Watson 29.12
12th Helcha Penfold 30.28
28th Sarah Kenyon 33.28
69th Emma Maghall 45.17.
Under 20 Women
6th Laura Paine 28.51
8th Alex Hayman 30.51
U17 Women
8th Kate French 18.49
14th Stephanie Hearn 20.35
18th Rebecca Collins 26.01
Under 15 Girls
13th Annie French 16.58
16th Cerys Sanders 17.11
24th Charlotte Hayes 18.02
30th Louise Blair 21.03
U13 Girls
30th Rhea Sanders 16.38
34th Kayleigh Williams 17.10
35th Sarah Westby 17.39
You can visit: http://www.kcaa.org.uk/resultsjan08.htm to view the full results of all races.
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