Croydon Harriers experience mixed week after County Championships success
BY MIKE FLEET
Following their 18 gold medal haul in the County Championships last weekend, Croydon Harriers experienced a week of varying success across the board.
On Monday, the club masters took a good third place in their six-club match where first-class event cover made up for a lack of winners.
Ian Stater was runner-up in both the long jump and discus. Other valuable seconds went to Scott Miller, 1500m, and Mike Smalley – high jump.
While in their Southern Men’s and Women’s League encounter at Walton, the club team had their work cut out, in narrowly avoiding last place.
Thankfully club’s U15 and U17 boys and girls excelled as runners-up in their demanding National Development League match at Mile End, where Trey Lindsay UK’s number one 150m runner trimmed his best to 17.52sec and supported that with another chart-topping improvement of 9.20sec in the 75m.
Other National standards were set by U15 A string winners Gabby Reid, with 11.5sec in the 75m hurdles and Shivelle Marshall in the 100m.
U15 high jump runner-up Millie Sims, Surrey bronze medalist recorded a dramatic personal best of 1.56m, which moves her into the national top 20.
Croydon swept the board in the relays with the girls’ 4x300m quartet finishing fractionally outside of three minutes
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