by: Martin Rowe | 7th Mar 2010 23:45:18

The final fixture from this seasons Downs League was a great success, well attended by the Croydon U13 age group.

Congratulations to Croydon for winning the League U13 age group and to Peter Chambers for his individual result in the U15s.

A Full report will be available Monday evening under the Fixtures page.

by: Matthew Kiernan | 7th Mar 2010 20:47:11

Croydon Harrier's sprinters, jumpers and throwers further cemented their reputation of being among the best in the county with a dominant display at the Surrey Indoor Championships at Sutton Arena.

The Harriers took home a formidable 16 medals in all, with eight athletes striking gold.

Elliot Safo followed up his National gold in Birmingham last week by taking the County U17 long jump title with a 6.74m leap, while Twinelle Hopeson set a championship best time in the U20 60m in 7.62s to take the honors.

U17 Cameron Smith rose to 5th in the 60m UK rankings after his gold medal winning run in a time of 7.06s, while his U15 club colleague Taiwo Kamoju stormed to victory in 7.57s.

Joe Yarde continued his dominance over the U17 sprint hurdles thanks to a 8.52s clocking to cross the line first.

Another sprinter Rohan Henry also enjoyed gold in the U13 boys race, although he was judged he clocked an identical time of 8.3s with another athlete in the final.

During Sunday's action, U20 Miles Casey won the gold medal in the Shot with a 11.90m effort on debut for the Harriers.

U17 Sheldon Brown followed up Elliot Safo's success in the horizontal jumps, to also secure gold, thanks to a 12.09m leap in the triple jump.

Other medallists
Andre Gibbs, U17M 60m , Silver
Oweka Wanogho, U17M 60m , Bronze
Jake Bernard, U15B 60m , Bronze
Jordan Otu, U15B 60m Hurdles , Silver
Cheyanne Evans-Grey, U13G, 60m Hurdles , Bronze
Nicole George, U17W shot putt , Silver
Stirling Gibbons, U15 High Jump , Silver
Joshua Thompson, U17M Triple Jump , Silver

Well done to the numerous other Harriers who made the trip to Sutton. Your results will be entered here in due course.

Full results can be found at the official Surrey Athletics Website

Photos and a full report will be available early next week.

For the best local press coverage of the event, make sure you pick up Wednesday's edition (10th March) of the Croydon Guardian and Friday's edition (12th March) of the Croydon Advertiser.

by: Martin Rowe | 7th Mar 2010 01:28:54
Every season (from December through to March), four time trial races are held during training nights at Croydon Arena (7.45pm as advised under Fixtures page).
This is a Mile race (4 full laps and starting 10 metres back of the 400 Metres Start line.
Due to the various standards over different age groups, a handicap calculation is applied to each performance over the four sessions and a 'standings' table is created.

The handicap is worked on the basis of age and your current Personal Best at this distance. As the Mile distance is not normally contested by most athletes and you do not have a previous time covering a mile distance on track, this is worked out for you based on either your 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m 800m or 1500m performances and an adjustment made.

Natuarlly you have a much better chance of winning the competition if you turn out for at least 3 of the 4 races held over the 3 months.

It is a fun as well as serious competition - some take it more seriously.

The good news is, the next race is sheduled for Thursday 11th March and will start close to 7.45pm.

See the Fixtures page for further information and any changes made.

It is best to arrive in good time to get a proper warm-up done, especially over this colder time.

You will find the latest Results and Standings HERE or from the Fixtures page.

Hope to see many of you there on Thursday evening !

by: Matthew Kiernan | 6th Mar 2010 19:06:28

Croydon Sports Arena has begun to put to good use the £20,000 grant it secured back in October, after being named as one of London's five beneficiaries of the Community Cashback scheme.

'Community Cashback' is a new scheme in England and Wales which gives local people a say in how £4million of recovered criminal assets (for example confiscated cash or property) should be spent in their communities.

The shortlist for London's potential projects was reduced to 25 in September, which were then put to the public vote to decide who would receive a £20,000 grant.

And thanks in part to Croydon Harriers, as well as the other users of the track, the Arena was named as one of the five recipients.

The effects of the scheme are beginning to come to fruition, with a number of new security cameras being installed around the facility. Improved perimeter fencing is also on the horizon, in addition to a new paint job to the stands and other Arena buildings.

Watch this space for further developments, and of course, thank you to all who voted!

For more information about the scheme visit the official Community Cashback Website.

by: Matthew Kiernan | 6th Mar 2010 05:37:13

First a Website and now a Twitter account?!

It really has been all been full steam ahead in recent times for the Harriers and now things hot up even more with the launch of Croydon Harrier's Twitter account!

Follow us now for our latest Tweets at: Tweet Here

You can also find us on Croydon Harriers Facebook

With that said, we'll Tweet to you soon!