Archive | 2016

Rimmer coming good at the right time?

Michael Rimmer successfully negotiated his 1st round race in the company of world record holder David Rudisha, Michael ran just inside 1.min 46 and will hope he can keep on the front foot and progress further.

Read full story Comments are closed

NA Inter Counties U/15 & U/17 T&F Champ, Costello Park August 7th

LPS had no fewer than eight athletes at this year’s championships, representing Merseyside and Lancashire. In the U/15 age group there were good 3rd place performances from Alice Prescot who jumped 4.83 in the A string Long Jump and Sadie McNulty 4.49, who was competing with older athletes. Joe Houghton just missed out on a […]

Read full story Comments are closed

Club Veterans Triumph in Birmingham

Club veterans, Gary Ireland and Dave Brown, competed in the Throws Pentathlon at Solihull at the weekend. The event, which is very popular with throws veterans, consisted of Hammer, Shot, Discus, Javelin and a Weight Throw (thrown like a hammer but much heavier with a short handle). Gary won the V45 category with a good all […]

Read full story Comments are closed

Free Tickets to Home International

I have been asked by EA to make you aware of the above meeting which takes place on the evening of the 17th August at Sports City in Manchester. The event will see an England team take on Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland & a GB Junior team. Tickets are priced at £5 for adults & […]

Read full story Comments are closed
Mark Roberts

The Girls Lead the Way

There was a double success for Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton at the Mid-Lanc’s meeting held at Ormskirk on Saturday, with both male & female teams finishing in first place. It was however, the girls who lead the way with a points total of 225, the highest in the league this season. The high jumpers secured first […]

Read full story Comments are closed
Danny Higham

Kai makes England debut

Saturday was the highlight of Kai Finch’s season when he made his England debut at the Ashford track in Kent, competing against the best that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had to offer. He will be disappointed with his clearance of 1.87m which was well below his season’s best and put him in 6th place overall. However,he […]

Read full story Comments are closed
Sammy Rashid, Clare Constable & Dave Brown

3 LPS Masters compete in Inter Area Match

LPS had 3 people represent Northern Masters on a warm and breezy day at the EAMA Outdoor Inter Area T&F Challenge a Solihull on 17th July 2016. First up was Clare Constable who won 400m inthe W35-50 category in 62.44 to earn maximum points and her fastest run in 8 years too. Next was Dave Brown […]

Read full story Comments are closed
Michael Rimmer

Rio calls for Michael

Michael Rimmer has been selected to compete in the 800 metres for GB in next month’s Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro. In doing so he has become the first athlete in the history of the club to be selected for three Olympic Games which is a tremendous achievement. He had faced an anxious wait following […]

Read full story Comments are closed

Tour of Merseyside

Four LPS athletes took on the challenge of the gruelling series of 6 races that make up the Tour of Merseyside. From a 5 mile Raging Bull race, a 6 mile cross country race in Knowsley, a 5.9 mile race in Thurstaton, a Sustrans 10 miler, a 12 mile trek on the Wirral coast to the […]

Read full story Comments are closed

Kai Leaps to Success

Fifteen year old, Kai Finch, a pupil at Meols Cop school in Southport,  is the proud owner of a high jump silver medal which he achieved at this year’s English Schools Championships held in Gateshead. Although, on this occasion he didn’t break through the 2 metre barrier, his leap of 1.95m was sufficient to secure […]

Read full story Comments are closed