Archive | July, 2017

Litherland Mid-Lancs Report

The final Mid-Lancs fixture held at Litherland was something of a low key event with most clubs depleted due to athletes away on holiday. However, there were still some excellent performances from Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton athletes on the day. Lauren Lewis(U17), following her disappointment at the English Schools, responded with 3 victories in the […]

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L-R Lewis Tinsley, Evan Williams, Ethan Tinsley, Eve Hannaway

Youngsters make track debuts at Sale

Three of our youngest athletes made their club track debuts at an open meeting at Sale Harriers on Sunday. Competing at U11 level, Ethan Tinsley was 4th in the 200m (31.5), sixth in 800m (2:53.5) and jumped 3.39m to finish fourth in the long jump. Teammate Evan Williams ran 3:03.4 (8th position) in the 800m, […]

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Dan Slater with GB team mates after their victory

Dan wins double European gold

A tremendous performance from 17 year old Dan Slater,saw the LPS athlete win two gold medals at this year’s European Triathlon Youth Championships. The event,staged over 4 days, was held in Lithuania, where Dan competed in the individual and mixed relay events. After successfully negotiating the semi-finals, the individual final consisted of a 500 metre […]

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Clare Constable

Clare gets GB Masters Call

LPS runner, Clare Constable, has been selected to represent Great Britain at the forthcoming European Masters Championships which will take place in Aarhous, Denmark from July 29th- August 6th. Clare competes in the veteran 45-50 age group. She is currently ranked 5th in the country at 400 metres and first in the 800 metres. She […]

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Alex Bunclark, Clare Constable, Helen Sahgal & Hillary Honeyball

Jenny claims bronze at English schools

LPS athlete, Jenny Pyatt, representing Cheshire schools, won bronze at this year’s English Schools Track & Field Championships, held at Alexandra stadium in Birmingham. Her throw of 41.86 metres, although below her personal best for the season, secured her third place in the senior girl’s event. Kai Finch(1.89m) will be disappointed with his 6th place […]

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Helen Saghal

Success at the seaside

Helen Sahgal continued her winning streak with success in the Southport  10K on Sunday 2nd July. Her winning time of 37.40 was good enough for 6th place overall as well as taking the women’s title. Andy Foster was 10th (38.54) & third  over 40, with Mark Hudson (43.13) finishing in 31st place but third in […]

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Mark Wynne and Helen Sahgal

Merseyside Grand Prix Success for Helen

Helen Sahgal continued her fine run of form by winning the latest race in the Merseyside Grand Prix series. Her victory in the Penny Lane 10K (37.51) was over 2 mins ahead of the second lady home. In the same event, Victory Gilbody (44.17) was 8th & Kirsty Mackenzie (49.18) was 25th. In the men’s […]

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Bill Steel

Preston dominate latest Mid-Lancs fixture

Host club, Preston, dominated the latest Mid-Lancs Track & Field meeting winning both the boy’s (191) & girl’s(224) matches. There was a much improved performance from LPS girls who finished joint second (131) with Blackpool; the boys finished third behind Southport Waterloo (134.5) Remarkably, fifteen LPS girls competed at U15 level, with Imogen Ayres winning […]

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Debbie Campbell

Debbie makes a winning start

On a wet and difficult evening  Debbie Campbell made a winning start to her LPS career with victory at the Harrock Hill race on 28th June, twenty fours hours of constant rain prior to the event made this already challenging course ‘tricky’ to say the least but this did not deter a field of almost […]

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