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Ben Claridge won a superb gold medal in the Senior Boys’ 400m at Gateshead on 9th July. Benefiting from an increased emphasis on speed training, the Tom King-trained athlete had been the fastest qualifier in the previous day’s heats (47.97). The White Horse Harrier then went on to record 47.83 for a convincing victory in the final.
The County is hosting the U15/U20 Southern Inter-Counties fixture on Sunday 21 August. To the present, there have been no offers of help with the team managing. If the county is to send teams to this (home) meeting, please can some of you offer to help! I cannot guarantee to be able to undertake this task on this occasion. Please don't let the athletes down!
John Sear
Chairman, OAA
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The 25 strong team selected to represent Oxfordshire at the ESAA Championships for this year is drawn from 9 local clubs and 16 different schools across the County. Once again we have a preponderance of throwers (9) who are joined by 4 hurdlers, 8 sprinters, 3 middle distance runners and a solitary jumper.
Oxfordshire AA is sad to report the death of Margaret Strange, aged 70, on 15th May 2016.
Margaret was a Life Vice President of the County AA and will be greatly missed by the Oxfordshire Athletics community, as well as her immediate family for whom she was a much-loved mother and grandmother.
Congratulations to Richard Hart who has become a Level 1 Photofinish Judge - some formal acknowledgement of his considerable experience in this discipline.
It was good to see so many Oxfordshire athletes competing in the British Outdoor Championships and Olympic Trials at Birmingham. Pride of place went to Nathan Douglas, still an OCAC athlete, for his popular victory in the Men’s Triple Jump. Nathan’s winning leap of 16.58 signalled a return to form and may have revived his hopes of making this year’s Olympic Games. One athlete who is Rio-bound is Lawrence Clarke (WSEH), an Oxfordshire champion in 2012, after taking silver in the 110H with a time of 13.44.
15 very committed Oxfordshire athletes striving to get through the regional round, of this year's, ESAA combined events (Midland Div) to secure a place in the national finals in September at Exeter.
Some athletes were quite experienced whilst 6 athletes were making their debuts including the entire u15 boys team.
Congratulations to the three Oxfordshire Field Officials upgraded since the start of the 2016 season:
The ESAA Regional Combined Events competition takes place at Derby on the weekend of 25-26 June. Expectations are high for the 3 complete teams (U15 girls and boys and the U17 women). These 12 athletes along with 2 U17 men 1 U19 man and U19 woman all have realistic expectations of making the national combined events finals in Exeter in September.
The U15 girls are all Radley athletes, Zoe Lovibond, Holly Griffiths-Brown, Kylah Rowlands and Matilda Donaghy. All the girls are in great shape and many PBs are expected in the competition.
