YOUNGSTERS from Blackheath & Bromley enjoyed some outstanding performances at the Aviva English Schools Championships in Birmingham, with five of them returning home with gold medals.

Dan Putnam is shortly to travel to Canada for the world junior championships and warmed up for this by winning the senior boys 400m metres in 48.04s.

Andrew Jordon won the Hammer with a throw of 66.77m and Ned Quiney the pole vault with a jump of five metres.

Sabine Efiannayi won the senior girls' shot with a putt of 12.88m.

However, perhaps the outstanding performance of the weekend came from Dina Asher Smith in the junior girls' 200m where her winning time of 24.50s was a new personal best, a club record and the fastest by an U15 in the country this year.

There were plenty of other good performances elsewhere.

In the senior age group, Megan Southwart ran a new best of 61.46s to claim silver in the 400m hurdles.

It was silver too for Matthew Walcott in the 110m hurdles in 14.40s and three more second claimers were close to medals with Frederica Foster (400m), Sarah Abrams (triple jump) and Joe Lawrence (triple jump) each finishing in fourth place.

Samantha Milner was fifth in the discus, as was Jonathan Ilori in the triple jump, and others to place in finals were: Hannah Edwards (6th 800m); Phil Sesemann (7th 1,500m), Ben Hopkins (8th 400m hurdles); Mark Longhurst (8th pole vault); Sam Brown (14th pole vault).

Kieron Daly ran 11.3s in the heats of the 100m and Krystal Galley set a new best of 57.31s in the 400m.

In the intermediates age group, Rachel Dickens won bronze in the 300m in 39.42s.

Ellie Duffy Penny set a new best of 34.18s by coming sixth in the discus.

Jonathan Pettet ran 50.61s in the heats of the 400m but was knocked out in the semis.

Anton Daly made the semis of the 100m running 11.32s.

Amara Lalemi Jacobs also made the girls' semi having timed 12.51s in the heats.

Lauren Stevens and Frances Read jumped 10.62m and 10.54m respectively in the heats of the triple jump.

In the junior age group, there was bronze in the same age group for Yemisi Sofolarin in the discus with a throw of 33.07m.

Daniel Hollett was 20th in the shot.

Other athletes form the club have been in action across the country and Europe in the last few days.

Tremayne Gilling was invited to compete at the Aviva British Grand Prix at Gateshead and ran 10.58s in the heats of the 100m.

Ned Quiney was quickly back in action after his English schools victory as he travelled to the Loughborough invite pole vault meeting.

He finished in seventh place with 4.90m, while training partner Scott Huggins cleared 5.05m to place fifth.

The British milers club meeting at Solihull saw Alex Bruce Littlewood set a new best of 3m51.21s in the 1,500m.

James Poole timed 3m55.95s and Bryony Proctor 4m31.77s.

Anike Shand Whittingham has been blazing a path across Europe in the last week.

At the meeting Arcobaleno at Celle Ligare, Italy, she ran 24.96s to finish fifth in the 200m.

She was fifth again at Donnas, Italy, this time in the 100m where she ran 11.82s.

From there she travelled to France where she ran 12.10s to finish fourth in the 100m at Albertville.

There was much celebrating at Norman Park for the last round of the Kent Veterans League.

Not only did the B&B men confirm their place in the regional final in September, they also qualified as Kent champions.

The women celebrated too as it was announced they also had made the final.

However, they were to be cruelly denied as when the results were checked the next day, it showed there had been an error in the results and they had, in fact, just missed out on qualification.

Full results of this match are not yet available.

The senior men finished in fourth place in the latest round of the southern men's league at Norman Park.

While they were very strong in some events, they were particularly weak in the throws, scoring nine out of a maximum 40 points.

This did include a new best in the hammer for Richard Holt and this, combined with his best time in the 400m hurdles for five years and his efforts in the sprint hurdles and javelin, secured him the club’s athlete of the match award.

Derek Paisley won the A string 400m hurdles in a season's best of 56.1s, with further wins for Alloy Wilson in the 400m, Daniel Haque in the 200m and David McKinlay in the 1,500m.

There was also victory for the 4x400m quartet of David McKinlay, Oliver Robinson, Daniel Haque and Alloy Wilson, who timed 48.2s on the anchor leg.

In the jumps, the pole vault was a very high standard and Nick Moore’s 3.90m which saw him finish third would normally have won the event.

Coach Allan Williams won the B string with a clearance of 3.40m, while Rachel Arnheim competed as a guest and cleared a season's best of 3.70m.

The latest of the Bromley parkrun 5km races to place at Norman Park and first to finish was David Beadle in ninth place in 18m56s.

Steve Pairman was 11th in 19m15s.

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