The 4th match in the series took place at Pingles Stadium, Nuneaton in extremely hot conditions.  The Tamworth AC athletes made the most of the weather recording some excellent results.

Senior Men

In the 400m A race John Jenkins came 1st with a season’s best time of 54.4secs and in the 100m  A race John came 5^th with a personal best time of 12.8 secs. In the 200m A race he was 5^th with a personal best time of 24.5secs and he came 4^th in the high jump with a third personal best of 1.4m.

Christian Bruss came 3^rd in his 100mrace with a time of 13.7secs and he was 4^th in his 200m race with a season’s time of27.4 secs In the 400m race he came 5^th with a season’s best time of 61.5secs. In the field events he had a jump of 3.57m and he scored a personal best in the discus with a throw of 14.16m.

In the 800m race James Walker came 6 with a personal best time of 2mins 18.7 secs.

Derek Bolton in the 1500m race had a season’s best time of 5mins 34.6secs, and in the 5000m he had another season’s best time of 22mins 12.8secs

Ethan Aidney came 2^nd in the shot with a personal best of 9.01m and he came 2^nd in the Javelin with a throw of 36.44m

Richard Johnson came 2^nd in the shot B event with a season’s best throw of 7.41m, he scored another season’s best throw of 23.4m in the discus. In the hammer he came 2^nd with a season’s best throw of 21.44m and in the Javelin B event he was 1^st with a personal best throw of 22.78m.

Stuart Findlater was 1^st in the Hammer B event with a personal best throw of 18.94m

Senior Women

Rachel West in the 100m A race came 4^th with a time of 14.4 secs and in the 200m A race she was 4^th with a season’s best time of 29.3secs

In the 100m B race Hope Spooner came 2^nd with a time of 15.5secs and in the 200m B race she came 3rd with a time of 30.7secs

Sophie Perry came 3^rd in the 400m A race with a time of 69secs

Katie Stretton came 3^rd in her 400m race with a personal best time of 70.7secs and in her long jump event she was 3^rd with a jump of 3.13m.  In the shot she had a personal best throw of 4.93m

Nicola Brady as a 400m non scoring runner had a personal best time of 70secs

Katherine Snowden in the 800m A race came 3^rd with a season’s best time of 2mins 28.1secs and in the 1500m A race she came 3^rd in a personal best time of 5mins 10.8secs

In the 300m race Lisa Stretton came 2^nd in a personal best time of 13mins 28.7secs

Gabrielle Degg came 3^rd in the high jump with a personal best jump of 1.35m and in the long jump she was 5^th with a jump of 3.59m. In the triple jump she came 3^rd with a jump of 7.9m

Field specialist Laura Allen had a season’s best in the shot with a throw of 5.15m and in the discus she came 3^rd with a throw of 18.94m. In the hammer she threw 18.29m and in the Javelin she had a season’s best throw of 9.25m

In the 4 x 100m Women’s relay the team of Hope Spooner, Gabrielle Degg, Rachel West and Sophie Perry came 2^nd with a time of 58.4secs

In the 4 x 400m women’s relay the team of Katherine Snowden, Katie Stretton, Sophie Perry, and Nicola Brady came 2^nd with a time of 4mins 40.9secs

On the day the Tamworth AC team finished in 4^th place and after 4 matches they are now in 6^th place in the league. The final match of the series is on Sunday 5^th August at Kettering.