The final league match of the East Anglian League (EAL) took place at LynnSport last Sunday and was hosted by the home team of West Norfolk AC.
The match featured teams from City of Norwich, Ryston, Great Yarmouth, Waveney Valley and Attleborough
All age group categories from under 11 through to Seniors competed.
There was much at stake with places in September’s Final still up for grabs.
For this league, West Norfolk had teamed up with athletes from Dereham AC, forming a composite team. The top eight teams over the three matches get to compete at the finals in Bury St Edmunds.
The weather was mostly dry and quite breezy, not ideal conditions for personal best performances and yet there were many recorded.
Under 15 boy Charlie Broad posted some of West Norfolk’s best results of the day with first places in all three of his events including a personal best in the javelin.
WNAC team manager Sharon Ross was happy as plenty of athletes showed grit and determination. There were some amazing personal performances that really paid off with five out of ten age group teams qualifying for the final in September – Under 13 boys’ and girls’ teams, the Under 15 boys’ and girls’ teams and the Senior Women all made the finals in September.
It was a successful day, and massive thanks must as always go to all the officials track judges, team managers, coaches, volunteers, athletes, and parents for coming together to create such a great day of athletics.
Full results:
Senior Women and Men
Emma Dewdney was 3rd in 100m A string in 15.8sec and was 3rd in the A string discus with a 16.96m season’s best throw.
Hannah Greenhalgh was 1st in the A string 400m in 60.8sec and was 2nd in 200m A string with a 27.5sec personal best.
Lucy Edwards was 2nd in the A string long jump with a 4.65m leap.
Lily Edwards, T20/F20 athlete, was 3rd in the B string long jump with a 2.10m leap, was 4th in the B string shot put and threw a 7.97m non-scoring javelin.
Sally Edwards was 1st in the B string 400m in 91.2sec, was 3rd in the 800m 3m34.3sec, and was 1st in A string 1500m in 7m.25.8sec.
Jen Gosnell was 5th in the A string shot put with a 5.93m put, was 3rd in the B string discus with a 15.13m throw, was 4th in the hammer with a 12.96m throw and was 4th in the A string javelin with a 13.78m throw.
Carole Preston of Dereham was 3rd in 200m B string in 49.9sec and was 3rd in the B string javelin with an 11.68m throw.
Alfie Williams was 1st in the shot put with a 12.25m put and was 2nd in the discus with a 25.94m throw.
Louis Preston of Dereham was 1st in the javelin with a 39.59m throw and personal best and was 4th with a personal best run of 25.2 in the A string 200m, was also 4th in the 400m A string 57.7sec.
Cameron Ross T20/F20 athlete, was 4th in the A string 100m 14.0sec, was 3rd in 200m B string in 29.5sec and was 4th in the A string long jump 4.02m leap.
Chris Theobald was 3rd in the 400m B string in 88.1sec.
Christopher Elmer was 3rd in the 800m A string in 2m.08.7sec, a season’s best, and was 2nd in the 1500m A string in 4m31.3sec.
Rob Gosnell was 4th in the 800m B string 800m in a time of of 2m.43.7sec and was 3rd in the 1500m B string in 5m.46.9sec; both were in personal best times.
Jack Pishorn was 4th in the B string long jump with a 3.39m leap, was 4th in the shot put with a 6.50m put, was 3rd in the B string discus with a 16.63m throw and was 4th in the javelin with a season’s best 19.76m throw.
Neil Watson was 4th in the high jump with a season’s best 1.35m.
The Senior Women’s relay team finished 3rd in 66.5sec, a season’s best. The Senior Men’s relay West Norfolk quartet finished 4th in 61.2sec.
Under 17 Women and Men
Lily Frammingham was 4th in the 100m A string in 15.6sec, was 2nd with a 1.35m personal best high jump and was 2nd in the A string long jump with a 3.98m leap.
Emma Theobald was 1st in the 100m B string in 15.7sec, was 4th in 31.2sec in 200m A string and was 2nd in the B string long jump with a 3.06m leap.
Charlie Frammingham was 4th in the A string 1500m in 4m45.2sec, was 2nd in the discus with a 14.44m throw, both a personal best performance, and was 4th in the A string long jump with a 4.85m leap.
Alfie Bone was 3rd in the 400m A string with a personal best in 59.6sec and was 2nd in the high jump 1.45m.
Tobias Cheesborough of Dereham was 1st in the A string 800m in 1.59.7sec and ran a 53.7sec in 400m as a non-scorer.
Under 15 Boys and Girls
Charlie Broad was 1st in the javelin A string with a personal best throw of 35.60m, was 1st in the A string long jump with a 5.05m leap and was 1st in the shot put with an 11.23m put to complete a hat-trick of first place finishes.
Henry Gosnell was 2nd in the 800m A string with a personal best time in 2m.25.0sec, was 2nd in the A string discus with a personal best throw of 15.20m, and threw a season’s best of 15.22m in the javelin B string.
Harry Woodgett, from Dereham, was 4th in 100m A string in 15.0sec and was 3rd with a personal best in the 300m A atring in 48.5sec.
Oliver Gayton was 3rd 100m B string in 15.3sec and was 2nd in the B string long jump with a 3.79m leap.
Rebecca Johnson was 2nd in the 100m A string in 14.1sec, was 2nd in the 80m hurdles in 12.7sec and was 4th in A string long jump with a 4.02m leap.
Mia Lesniak was 1st in the A string discus with an 18.23m throw, was 2nd in the 80m hurdles B string in 14.5sec and was 2nd in the high jump with a 1.35m jump.
Evie Clayton was 1st in the A string 1500m in 5m40.9sec, a season’s best performance.
Winifred Nwachukwu was 3rd in the 100m B string with a personal best run 14.2sec, and ran in the 80m hurdles as a non-scorer and achieved a 14.5sec personal best.
The Under 15 Boys’ relay team finished 3rd in 57.6sec, a season’s best performance, whilst the Under 15 Girls’ relay team finished 3rd in 56.6sec.
Under 13 Boys and Girls
Luke Anderson was 1st in the 200m A string in 30.5sec, was 2nd in the 800m A string in 2m.49.5sec and was 2nd in the A string high jump with a 1.10m personal best jump.
Harrison Lesniak was 3rd in 100m A string in 16.4sec, was 3rd in the 200m B string in 33.5sec and had a 3.63m personal best long jump as a non-scorer.
Thomas Murray was 3rd in the 1500m A string in 5m.20.2sec and was 2nd in the B string long jump with a 2.77m leap.
Wilf Gosnell was 2nd in the B string high jump with a 1.10m leap, was 2nd in the discus with a 9.99m throw, both personal best performances, and was 5th in the javelin with a 10.86m throw.
Harry Patterson of Dereham was 2nd in the B string 800m with a personal best of 3m.11.6sec.
Stanley Underwood of Dereham was 2nd in the A string long jump with a 3.61m personal best.
Myley Gilboy was 2nd in 100m A string in 14.9sec, was 2nd in the 200m A string in 29.8sec and was 3rd in the B string long jump with a 3.03m jump.
Katie Cawson was 1st in the shot put with a 6.58m throw, was 3rd in the 100m B string in 15.5sec and was 4th in the A string long jump with a 3.20m leap.
Jessica Lawrence was 2nd in the A string 1500m in a personal best time of 6m.05.6sec and was 4th in the discus with a 7.76m throw.
The Under 13 Girls’ relay team were 3rd in 61.5sec, a season’s best time.
Under 11 Girls and Boys
Sofia Gilboy was 5th in 80m with a personal best in 13.7sec, was 7th in the long jump with a 2.37m leap and was 5th in the shot put with a 3.73m throw.
Matas Petreikis was 1st in the long jump with a 3.76m leap, was 4th in 80m in 13.0sec, and was 3rd in heat 1 of the 600m in 2m07.6sec.
James Hallkyard of Dereham was 5th, 80m 13.1 sec, was 3rd in the 600m heat 2 in 1m59.4sec and was 8th in the long jump with a 2.85m leap.
Samuel Howard was 5th in heat 1 of 600m in 2m15.7sec, was 3rd in the long jump with a 3.45m leap and was 4th in the shot put with a 4.65m throw.
Ophelia Fowell of Dereham was 4th, in the 100m in 13.5sec, was 3rd in 600m in 2m12.6sec, and was 5th in the long jump with 2.65m leap.
