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ATHLETICS: Gloucester Athletics secure record medal haul

Across two days of competition last weekend, Gloucester Athletics Club secured over 120 medals at the Gloucestershire County Track & Field Championships.

The club’s youngsters impressed, particularly with the U15 girls 4 x 300m relay. The team of Tricia Stanfield, Emma Tillot, Darcey Barton and Isobelle Herbert won their race in 3:06.8 to break the Club record by 10 seconds.

Amongst this was a number of personal bests in the Britain’s Ocean City Half Marathon. Bethan Moore placed 134th in 1:32:38 – the second fastest time by a City lady this year. Speaking to Gloucester Athletics after the event, she said:

“I’m surprised with that time as I hadn’t done any specific training for the event and had no expectations. I really enjoyed the race.”

Gloucester’s latest signing Steve Kenyon secured the biggest win of his career when he won the Tewkesbury Half Marathon. Leading from the gun, he contended with the extreme heat to come home at a new personal best of 1:15:37.

Club spokesman Richard Blackwell said after the championships:

“This was the Club’s most successful Championships for many years and the fact that we won medals across all of the age groups and events suggests we are heading in the right direction as we aim to be a recognised athletics force in the region once again. It would be unfair to single out any individual performances, but the efforts of all the athletes and the Club’s coaches cannot go without mention.”