THURROCK Harriers had its best ever representation at the National Veterans Championship at Birmingham over the weekend and came back with a haul of five medals.
Sue Lawrence picked up three of them finishing 3rd in the V40 shot and javelin and with a silver in the discus. A throw in that event of 29.44m was probably her best performance of the weekend.
On the men’s side Jon Metcalf performed well in the V55 section. He picked up his bronze medal in the 800m where he finished 3rd in 2m15.6. This was a great performance in a high quality event. He finished 4th in the 1500m with a time of 4m45 and produced a season’s best of 60.2s in the 400m to finish 5th.
Thurrock’s other medal came in the V50 steeplechase where Don Lawless picked up a bronze medal with a good for age time of 12m05.
It was good to see Steve Kemp turning out some classy performances in the V55 section.He was 7th in the 1500m, 8th in the 800m with a season’s best of 2m27. His 9th place in the 400m produced another season’s best time of 63.04s.
