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News from 2001
| April 2001 |
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A great performance on
29th April by the men's track and field junior squad saw them
comprehensively win the first fixture in the Mersey Division of the
National Junior Athletic
 League at the Bebington Oval. A combined
score of 379 points left their nearest rivals West Chehire and Wirral
trailing by over 100 points in a match where every LPS athlete could
be proud of their achievements. Highlights included a sprint double
and two PB's from Michael Zaim, PB's from Matthew Atkinson in the
javelin and from Paul Edwards in the long jump and a terrific 4 x 100m
relay win by the sprint team. Although the squad lacked field
competitors, enough of the lads volunteered for both the A and B
categories in every event and earned valuable points towards the
total. It was a magnificent team effort and would have been
better still if someone had remembered to bring the pole for the pole
vault!
Full Results
National Junior Athletic
League
Bebington Oval (29
April 2001)
100m Michael
Zaim (11.2s) Paul Edwards (11.9s)
200m Michael
Zaim (22.5s) Danny Holland (23.8s)
400m Phil
Taylor (50.7s) Russell Genge (55.9s)
110H Mark
Donoghue (21.8s) Dan Taylor (21.9s)
400H Mark
Donoghue (66.4s) Tom Wade (71.4s)
800m Henry
Stewart (2m 02.7s) Alex Spencer (2m 09s)
1500m Henry Stewart
(4m 23.2s) Alex Spencer (4m 32.1s)
3000m Dan Taylor (9m
35s) Dan Hutton (9m 55.2s)
2000mSC Mark
Donoghue (6m 33.8s) Tom Wade (6m 51s)
4x100m Relay
Michael Zaim, Paul Edwards, Phil Taylor, Danny Holland (45.4s)
4x400m Relay
Michael Zaim, Russell Genge, Paul Edwards, Phil Taylor (3m 36.1s)
Hammer Dan
Hutton (9.79m) Alex Spencer (8.41m)
Triple Jump
Matthew Atkinson (11.28m) Russell Genge (9.32m)
Javelin
Matthew Atkinson (37.24m) Henry Stewart (23.58m)
Shot Matthew
Atkinson (8.3m) Tom Wade (6.64m)
High Jump Dan
Taylor (1.5m) Tom Wade (1.45m)
Discus Matthew
Atkinson (20.35m) Dan Hutton (10.48m)
Long Jump
Danny Holland (5.69m) Paul Edwards (5.33m)
Report & Photos Derek Baker |
| Disappointment in 12 Stage Relay(28-4-01)
LPS failed to finish a team in the National 12 stage relay at
Birmingham. Club Captain Jim elected to run a similar team to Leeds,
although without fastest man at Leeds Nathan missing, due to him still
recovering from last weeks London marathon added to Jim's problems. A
team on paper but in reality we ended up with only 10 stages completed.
John Kilbane failed to show up and with only eleven runners Peter
Normile who had made the long journey decided to get home early to catch
up on his collage work. The disappointment of all who had made the long
journey was clear. In what was a poor day for Liverpool clubs Liverpool Harriers had themselves disqualified on stage 4 for running Phil McGlory who is an under 17 . Wirral carried the Merseyside flag by being our only finishers in 56th place Results |
Good times in bad
weather (22-4-01)
Atrocious weather conditions on
Sunday 22nd April were not conducive towards top class performances.
However, in the Melborne Cup held at Wavertree, Phil Taylor (50.6
secs), Michael Zaim (52.1 secs) and Dave Stroud (56.4 secs) all
achieved PB's in the Men's 400 metres.Also, in the U15 long jump, more PB's were collected by Joey Wegrzyn (4.92 metres) and John Edwards (4.6 metres). With the new Track & Field season only just beginning, these results look very promising and given fair weather conditions and good competition all the lads can confidently look forward to notching up further improvements over the coming months. Results report Derek Baker (To find the above results you will have to navigate! Good luck) |
Nathan Vengdaslerm 33rd
in London Marathon(22-4-01)
After his  good
run on the opening leg in the Northern 12 stage at Leeds, Nathan ran his first London marathon
in an excellent 2.23.46 to come home in 33rd place. Passing through 10k
in 33.00 he reached the halfway point in 69.35. the 40k was passed in
2.15.39. This made him the 13th GB athlete to finish. Coming into marathon
running late in his career although he had run 1.44 for twenty miles
back in the 1993 he never ran his first marathon until 1999 and missed
last years London through illness. Nathan now ranks 4th on the all time
club list of fastest marathon runners behind Marty McLoughlin 2.17.27,
Ritchie Brown 2.19 and Peter Malcomson 2.21 Results |
Brian Currie 4th at
Southport(13-4-01)
Showing a welcome e return to form Brian Currie ran 31.56 to finish 4th in
the Southport 10k. The race was won by ex LPS man Rob Berry in
31.16 from a field of over 700! Sammy Rashid was next home in 17th spot
in 33.18. Brian was unable to make the Northern 12 stage last week but
Club Captain Jim Eden, will look to Brian's availability for the
National 12 stage in two weeks time Results |
| Under 17s just miss out on medals (8-4-01) In a battle to the line LPS under 17 men just missed out on bronze medals at the national by 2 seconds! Dan Taylor, Alan Stewart, Mark Donoghue & Henry Stewart who have been missing out on the medals all season will have the consolation of knowing they are one of the most improved squads and should be making a big impression this summer on the track. the under 17 Ladies had a solid run coming home 15 with Nicola Gunderson, Amy Potter and Laura Davenport. The under 15 girls came home in 12 place with Kiera Vogel running the 7th fastest time of the day. The under 15 boys came home in 21 place. The under 13 girls ran out in 50 place and the under 13 boys came home in 13th spot. Results |
20 team in Northern 12 Stage Relay(7-4-01)
In bitterly cold conditions LPS came home 20th in the Northern 12 stage
relay at Leeds. This ensured  qualification for the National 12 stage
later this month. Getting away to a good start Nathan Vengdaslerm brought home in 6th place, solid packing saw us ahead of Liverpool
Harriers until the 9 stage when lead us for the first time a stronger
tail saw Liverpool get away over the last two legs. Team captain Jim
Eden will have the under 17 men's squad at his disposal for the national
which should see club Secretary Robbie Wood out of the squad. Results |
