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The first event of the day was the men’s and women’s pole vault with Adey White, and Keith Ridgeway competing for the men.
Adey finished 2nd, vaulting 2.80m with Keith vaulting 2.50m to also finish 2nd in the B event. At this time, the hammer
throw was also starting. In this event Lesley Bryant threw 22.84m to finish 3rd and Hayley Fox threw 17.22m to
finish 2nd in the B event. In the men's hammer, Adey White threw 26.66m for 5th A and Geoff Powley threw 18.04m for 5th B.
The women’s long jump also got underway with Lydia Chamberlin and Denise Timmis competing. Lydia returning from
injury put in a fine performance and won jumping 5.15m, with Denise coming 3rd with 4.38m, setting a new club age best
record. Colin Wilson also competing in the men’s Long Jump gained valuable points finishing 3rd with 4.91m.
The track competition started with the 400m hurdles where Wellington only had one finisher, Malc Bramhall, who ran 71.6s
for 4th B. The 800m races were the next event onto the track, with Wellington gaining excellent points in these
events. Lara Thomas ran a personal best time of 2:22.4 to finish 2nd in her race, with Amy Connolly running 2:25.8 to finish
1st B. Matt Bowser and Steve Gregory achieved maximum points, both winning their respective races with times of 1:56.5 and
2:01.5. Cat Clark-Field ran 14.6 for 7th A in the 100m.
With further throwing events in progress there were some more encouraging performances. Adey White threw 27.20m in the
discus for 6th A and Jim Slater achieved 20.45m to finish 3rd B. Lydia Chamberlin and Lesley Bryant competed in the
shot with Lydia throwing 10.37m to finish 3rd, with Lesley throwing 10.20m to win the B event and set another club age best
record.
The next track events were the 100m. Steve Blagdon ran 11.5 to finish 2nd and Mark Richardson came 3rd with a time of 12.5. The men’s 110m Hurdles produced an exciting performance from David Carratt
who won in a time of 18.3 and Adie White in action again finishing 3rd in 20.0. In the 3000m for women, Susie Ardron
ran 12:01.9 for 4th A and Sarah Kimpton was also 4th in the B race with 12:41.4. In the women's 400m, Liz Ward ran
64.5 for 4th A and Denise Timmis ran 68.6 for 4th B.
Matt Bowser and Tom Herbert were both
in action, comfortably winning their 1500m races with times of 4:07.0 and 4:27.6. The 1500m for women was the next event
on the track with Blue Haywood and Sarah Coates finishing 3rd with impressive times of 4:47.2 and 5:06.6. In the men’s 200m,
Steve Blagdon and Danny Hill competed, with Steve running 23.1 to finish 2nd and Danny 23.8 to win his race. The men’s 5000m was the final individual track event with Josh Stone looking very comfortable and finishing 2nd with a time of
16:19.1. Mark Plaskett ran the B race to finish 4th B with 17:20.8, a creditable effort for an 800m runner.
In the final field events of the day, Lara Thomas jumped 8.46m for 6th A in the Triple Jump and Liz Samways picked up
valuable points finishing 2nd B with an 8.39m jump. However, the performance of the day occurred in the women’s
discus. Lesley Bryant not only produced a club record, but threw a British Masters Age best with a throw of 35.10m to
finish 2nd. Hayley Fox also competed in this event finishing 3rd with a throw of 22.25m. Adey White finished his day
with 9.72m in the Shot Put for 5th A, and Keith Ridgeway finished 3rd B with a throw of 9.39m. Lydia Chamberlin and Cat
Clark-Field were back in action competing in the high jump, Lydia jumped 1.50m to finish 3rd with Cat jumping 1.35m to
finish 2nd. Jim Slater jumped 8.04m for 7th A in the Triple Jump.
Finally the relays got under way with the women’s 4×100m team finishing 5th with a time of 55.6 and the men’s finishing 3rd
with a time of 46.5. The women’s 4×400m team finished 3rd in a time of 4.19.1 and the men finishing 1st with a time of
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Match 1, Rotherham
6 May 2006
Lincoln Wellington made a good start to the season in the North of England League finishing
second to Rotherham. The day had varied weather, starting off very warm and bright in the morning but getting darker, wetter
and windier for the later events during the day. However, very consistent performances were produced, with Adey White setting
several Club Records in the new Mens V35 category.
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