Gable Hall Sports Day
Some fantastic performances at the Gable Hall Sports Day.
Thurrock’s Jo Wins Euro Bronze “On One Leg”
Jo later appeared in front of the BBC cameras on crutches as she explained what happened. She said: “It really hurt after 16 miles but I wasn’t going to quit. I went into automatic and finished the race.
Hayley McLean: Hassenbrook’s Hurdling Heroine
HASSENBROOK’S Hayley McLean’s winning performance at the All-England Track and Field Championships has really impressed the athletics world. Although only in Year 10, Hayley laid waste to the best Year 11 300 metre hurdlers in the country.
Thurrock Girls Strike Gold at National Athletics Champs
HASSENBROOK’S Hayley MacLean capped a magnificent season by winning the Intermediate Girls 300 metre hurdles at the All-England Track and Field Championships at Birmingham’s Alexandra Stadium this weekend.
Olympian Ben Challenger in Thurrock
Olympic High Jumper Ben Challenger joined students from Treetops and Beacon Hill school for an afternoon learning all about the events that make athletics the centrepiece of the Olympics.
Ormiston Athletes: Quality Not Quantity
IT MUST be hard being the smallest team at the Thurrock Track and Field Champs. Not necessarily says the PE Dept at Ormiston Park as they have some quality athletes in their squad.
Thurrock Schools Track and Field Champs
THE SUN shone and the athletes turned out in their droves to compete in the Thurrock Schools Track and Field Champs at Blackshots on friday. Thurrock athletes really buck the trend: while other boroughs find it hard to muster up a team, each event in Thurrock has two athletes from each school. This led to […]
Bronze for Matt in Lakeside Triathlon
The North Stifford Ironman completed the gruelling 750m swim, 20k bike ride and 5k run in 1:14:04.
Thurrock Athletes Reach All-Englands
Nancy Le Beau: Long Jump; Kai Riley Laborde: Shot Putt; Robbie Clarricoats: 80 metre hurdles (Reserve); Ben Glasgow:100m; Akeem Akintokan: 200m and Linzi Boosey: Hammer.
Thurrock Athletes Step Up To Plate
ONE of the hardest things four developing athletes is to try and compete with athletes a year or three older than you.
However, the young charges at Thurrock Harriers put themselves up against much older athletes at the National Under 20’s League match at Ware, H
LeBeau Sisters Strike Gold
Nancy Le Beau won the A String Long Jump in a new personal best of 5.48m with sister Natalie winning the B String with a jump of 4.70m. Nancy also won the 100m in 12.9 as well as the 100m hurdles in 16.5. Natalie won the B string 200m in 27.3. Rebecca Barnard won the B String 100m hurdles attempting the higher hurdles for the first time.