Its been an incredibly start to June, as the track and field season has truly hit the busiest part of the summer. Here are some of the incredible highlights from the last two weeks!

Northern U13/U15/U17 Champs @ Liverpool
Challenging conditions and top quality opposition did not stop our juniors producing the goods. Every athlete stepped up and delivered 💪

🥇Ben C - u15 Hammer 41.96m
🥈Fearne B - u15 Hammer 36.63m club record
🥉Bella R - u15 Hammer 31.34m PB

Katy P took 5th in the 80m hurdles with 11.87, Kimi made the u15 100m semi final, with India setting a 75m hurdles PB, and Fearne making the semi-final.

Blaydon Junior Race
Well done to our young athletes who competed in the junior version of this iconic race! Alastair, Alex, Harris and Archie all did fantastic!

NESDL
A number of our U20's helped the senior team to an incredible match win, as he into the final fixture joint top of the league against the North East giants Gateshead. Check out the results in the gallery below, some senational performances!

Schools County Champs
We had athletes competing at both Durham and Northumberland Schools Champs on Saturday 14th, and they had aspirations of going to competeat intercounties, and perhaps even the legendary English Schools Champs. Our athletes returned with a sensational 14 event wins, and a further 10 podium places. Results shown below!

University of Birmingham Festival of Athletics
Luke Pichler took part in his first U20 decethlon - and delivered a fine performance accross the two days.

100m 11.34 PB
Long Jump 6.55m
Shot Put 12.30m outdoor PB
High Jump 1.85m
400m 51.70 PB
110m Hurdles 14.88 PB
Discus 27.83m PB
Pole Vault 4.00m PB
Javelin 42.76m PB
1500m 4:52.86

Total 6515pts PB - 1st Place 🥇

North East Grand Prix 18th June
It was an incredible night at Monkton, as a huge squad of Team Blyth athletes did themselves proud. Check out the results below!

What a fantastic weekend! 

Things kicked off on Saturday with the return of the NOTAN Summer Grand Prix after a 6 year absence. Nearly 100 young athletes too part in a sprint, jump, throw and endurance run as they gave it their all and had a huge amount of fun. Volunteers from Blyth worked alongside North Shields Poly and Wallsend Harriers to make this an incredible event. We had 4 of our own juniors taking part, with Harris equalling the 400m league record, and Amelie, Noah and Eliza all performing superbly. Results are at www.notanathletics.co.uk

Also on Satuday, Senna Gorvett raced in 400m Hurdles at the BLCF Hurdles Fest in Chelmsford, as she took the opportunity for higher level competition in the South of England. The long trip was more than worthwhile, as she came away with a 3rd place finish out of 12 athletes, a seasons best, and an English Schools Qualifying time of 65.30s

On Monday, 4 of our athletes travelled to York to represent the North East at the Northern Intercounties. Katy (hurdles, Abi (hurdles), Sarah (100m, Hurdles) and Fearne (Discus) all performend superbly, helping the team to a 2nd place finish. 

Finally, down in Chelmsford it was the Bedford International Games, with Millie Train and Sadie Parker travelling to take advantage of an extremely high level of competition. They delivered superb performances, with Millie jumping further in every round as she set an outdoor personal best of 11.13m in the final round. Sadie made a huge breakthrough, as she leapt to a new outright PB of 5.81m in the first round, despite not hitting the board. In round 5 she went even further, jumping 5.89m although this was wind assisted. She finished as 1st U20 - a huge performance.

It was a sensational day of athletics as we hosted match 2 of the NEYDL. The combined Blyth/Alnwick team were in stunning form, racking up win after win, and scoring a massive points total to extend our league at the top of the league.

A huge thanks to everyone that was involved throughout the day, especially our team of volunteers and officials who worked tirelessly throughout.

Results can be found HERE  

On Saturday 17th May, a number of our talented U20's athletes produced a sublime series of performances to help the Blyth/Wallsend team to a 3rd place finish, keeping us well in the battle for the Division 1 title.

Sadie Parker set a brand new PB and U20 club record of 58.75s to take the 400m win. Senna Gorvett smashed the club record in the 100m hurdles with 15.73s to take first place, also recording a 1.55m high jump. Amber Wright cleared a soild 1.50m in the high jump, and was 2nd in the long jump with 5.04m. Millie Train set a new LJ PB to take the win with 5.22m, also winning the triple jump with an outdoor PB of 10.99m. Hollie-Anne Sudder made her NESDL debut and stormed to a thrilling PB of 25.53s in the 200m. Xara Purvis was 2nd in Javelin and recorded a big 800m personal best of 2:47.21s, whilst sister Lilia set a new Discus PB of 28.84m, also scoring well in the shot put. Georgia Turner set a seasons best of 36.29m to win the hammer, performing well also in shot put and discus.

Kaitlyn Waddell made her Great Britain debut on Sunday 18th May at the Loughborough International, becoming the first Blyth athlete to represent GB in track and field.

It was a challenging comp for Kaitlyn, starting with 4 no throws - however she finished strong with a 49.05m final throw. A fantastic experience for Kaitlyn, a huge well done to her and her coach David.

NECAA Track & Field Championships – Report
 
Glorious sunshine meant that conditions were near perfect for this years edition of the NECAA Track & Field Championships, which this year took place at Shildon. An incredible 30 Team Blyth athletes took part, and this is how they got on!

Day 1

Team Blyth secure an incredible 6 x Gold 🥇, 9 x Silver 🥈, and 8 x Bronze🥉medals.

Abi H - U17 80m Hurdles 🥈12.15s =PB, Long Jump 🥈4.69m
Aman S - U15 Javelin 🥉22.93m PB
Amber W - U20 Long Jump 🥈5.29m SB
Ben C - U15 Shot Put 🥇10.44m
Elsie B - U15 Discus 4th 17.75m PB, Javelin 6th 15.31m PB
Faith U - U17 80m Hurdles 🥉12.32s PB
Fearne B - U15 75m Hurdles 🥉12.74s PB, Discus 🥈 19.08m PB
George B - U17 1500m 4th 4:20.61 PB
Georgia T - U20 Discus 🥈28.87m PB
Hollie-Anne S - U17 200m 🥉25.87, Javelin 🥈33.66m PB
India G - U15 75m hurdles 4th 13.09 PB, High Jump 4th 1.35m
Katy P - U17 80m hurdles 🥇11.94s PB
Kimi N - U15 75m Hurdles 14.87s PB
Lianne S - Sen Discus 🥇 38.75m PB
Lilia P - U20 Discus 🥉26.74m
Luke P - U20 Discus 🥈26.79m, Shot Put 🥇 11.55m, 100m 🥈11.58s
Millie T - U20 Long jump 🥉5.11m
Sadie P - U20 Long jump 🥇 5.59m, Javelin 🥇27.09m PB, 200m 🥉25.99s
Sarah W - U15 75m Hurdles 🥈12.46s, 200m 🥉28.36s

Day 2

It was a super Sunday for Team Blyth on the final day of the North East Champs - 12 Golds, 6 Silvers and 4 Bronze medals for a total medal haul of 45 across the weekend. It was fantastic to see so many athletes giving it their very best throughout the weekend,  resulting in our best ever champs 🏆

Alfie  - Senior LJ🥇 6.62m
Aman S - u15 TJ 4th, LJ 7th
Amara o'C - u15 100m 7th
Amber W - u20 HJ 🥇 1.51m
Ben C - u15 Hammer 🥇39.73m
Darren T - 400 hurdles 🥇 62.08s
Dexter H - u17 800m 7th
Elsie B - u15 Hammer 🥉24.43m, Shot put 🥈8.61m
Faith U - u17 100m 🥉13.2s
Fearne B - u15 Hammer 32.39m🥇, 300m 5th
Georgia T u20 Hammer 🥈34.23m
Harry R - u13 200m 🥈, LJ 4th
India G - u15 TJ 🥇9.43m , LJ 10th, Shot put 6th
Isabella R - u15 Hammer 🥈29.41m
Jamie F - u15 800m 2nd in B final
Kaitlyn W - u20 🥇49.92m **Championship record**
Katy P - u17 HJ 🥇 1.51m
Kimi N - u15 Hammer 4th, LJ 6th, 100m 8th
Lauren J - Senior 400m 🥇59.01
Liane S  - Senior Shot Put 🥇10.66m
Lilia P - u20 Shot Put 🥈9.50m
Luke P - u20 HJ 🥉, Javelin 🥇
Safia D - u15 LJ 4th
Sarah W - u15 100m 🥈 13.53, TJ 5th
Senna G - 400 hurdles 🥇, Shot put 🥉8.87m

5 of our athletes made the trip to York on bank holiday Monday for an early season Combined events meet. Here is how they got on!

Senna Gorvett - U20 Quadrathlon
100mh PB, Long Jump PB, Javelin PB. Overall 🥈

Hollie-Anne Sudder - U17 Quadrathlon
1st after 3 events, but injury resulted in DNF

India Gorvett - U15 Pentathlon
800m PB, overall Pentathlon PB

Fearne Bell - U15 Pentathlon
75m hurdles PB, Long Jump PB, overall pentathlon PB

Kimi Ng - U15 Pentathlon
800m PB

Well done all! Full results HERE

What. A. Weekend!

The summer season is now truly underway, and the final weekend in April provided a memorable pair of league matches, and representation for George in the London Mini-Marathon.

George represent the North East in the U15 boys race on Saturday on the famous course, putting a fine performance. Well done George! Also on Saturday, several of our U20's helped our Senior League team to a stunning win in the first fixture of the season at Whitley Bay. There were fine club debuts for Georgia, Xara and Lilia, with Millie, Luke, Sadie and Senna all producing wins and fine performances. Results summarised below!

Sadie Parker - LJ 🥇 5.79m =PB, league record
Millie Train - TJ 🥇 10.95m outdoor PB, LJ 5.20m PB
Senna Gorvett - 🥇🥇 400h & High jump,  100 hurdles 2nd place PB, club record, Javelin 2nd place PB
Georgia Turner - 🥇 Hammer Throw, Discus u20 club record & PB 27.48m, Shot Put PB
Xara Purvis - Javelin 23.88m PB, 800m PB, LJ SB
Lilia Purvis - Discus 22.19m PB, SP 8.85m, 200m SB, LJ SB
Luke Pichler -  Pole vault 🥇, outdoor PB, 400m 2nd 52.16 PB, Javelin 41.85m PB 🥇

Full Results

On Sunday, it was the turn of the U13/U15/U17's as the NEYDL kicked off at a sunny Shildon. The Blyth/Alnwick team were on fire all day - racking up an astonishing series of wins, podium lockouts, PB's and club records, as we won the match by a huge margin! Thanks to all involved, including athletes, coaches, parents and officials.  Results Summary below:

U13B
Harry R  - 100m PB 200m 🥇PB 30.50s, HJ PB, Relay
Alex RL – 100m PB,  SP 🥇,  HJ 🥇
Jack E - 800m PB
 Oscar VB – 100m PB, 800m PB                              

U13G
Amelie H – 200m PB, 800m PB 2:52.78, LJ PB, Relay
Liliana ML – 200m, 800m, Shot Put 2nd Place 5.05m PB, Relay
Eliza P – 100m PB, 800m PB, Long Jump PB, Relay       

U15B
Charlie D – 800m PB 2:42.48, LJ PB
Joseph H – 1500m , LJ PB

U15G
Kimi N – 100m PB, Shot Put PB, Long Jump Outdoor PB 🥇, Relay 🥇
Isabella R – Hammer 2nd PB 26.89m, 200m PB, Relay
Fearne B – Hammer 🥇 PB & Club Record 34.35m , 300m PB, Discus PB, Relay
Safia D – Hurdles PB, Long Jump PB, High Jump PB, Relay
Amara O’C – 100m PB, High Jump =PB, Relay 🥇
India G – Hurdles 3rd PB, High Jump 2nd, Shot Put PB, Relay
Aman S – Hurdles 2nd PB, Javelin, Discus PB, Relay 🥇
Elsie B – Hammer 3rd PB, Discus PB, Shot PB
Maisie P – 300m PB, 800m PB  , LJ PB, Relay
Isabelle H – 200m PB, 800m PB             
Sarah W – Hurdles PB 🥇 12.38, 100m PB 🥇, 200m PB 🥇, Relay 🥇

U17M
Dexter H – 800m 2nd, Javelin PB, Long Jump PB
Jacob R – HJ 🥇 PB 1.63m, 100m 🥇 PB              

U17W

Beth M – 200m PB, 300m, Relay
Abi H (team captain) – Hurdles 🥇12.29s, Shot Put 🥇, Long Jump 🥇, Relay
Hollie-Anne S – 100m 🥇 PB 12.50s (ESAA Standard), 200m 🥇PB 25.65s (ESAA Standard), Javelin 🥇, Relay
Izabela W – Hurdles 2nd PB, High Jump 🥇 PB 1.45m, LJ, Relay

Full Results