July 2018 – Ilford Athletic Club

Press Report Tuesday 31st July 2018

Jul 302018

Davos Running Festival Switzerland Tuesday 24th – Saturday 28th July Ilford AC member Peter Spelman travelled to Switzerland last week to take part in the Swiss Alpine Davos Running event. The meet sees runners take part in a series of different races and trail runs and is often popular with tourists. Spelman’s first race was last Tuesday when he took part in a 4k race on a hilly course around Lake Davos, in which the Ilford man finished as the fifth fastest M65 athlete in 27 minutes 35 seconds. On Saturday, Spelman then took part in the K43 race, which was a 43k run through the Swiss Alpines that includes 1500m of climb. Despite his lack of acclimatisation, he was …Read More

Ilford AC Press Report 24th July 2018

Jul 232018

NEWHAM HILLY 5 Hainault Forest Wednesday 18 July The annual Hilly 5 and latest round of the ELvIS competition was staged by Ilford AC in memory of popular club official and one time road and cross country team manager ‘Newman Sargent’ who lost his battle with cancer in 2002 The race is held over 2 challenging laps of an off road course, around the hills and trails of Hainault Forest. The day was a good one for the host club as Tom Gardner ran an excellent race, in front position from the off, to win by over 90 seconds in 27 mins 49 secs. He was backed up by the in form Gary Coombes in 4th place overall in 29 …Read More

Junior Press Report 16th July 2018

Jul 162018

English Schools Championships Birmingham 13th / 14th July Aaron Samuel and Mario Dobrescu were chosen to represent Essex at the prestigious English schools championships last weekend. Aaron was chosen for the Inter boys 1500m, which entailed heats on Friday. The first four in each heat, plus the 4 fastest losers progressed to the final. Aaron was in heat 2 and was in a good position for most of the race. Unfortunately he lost 2 places in the last 30 metres and missed out on a place in the final by 0.5 seconds. Mario, of Mayfield school, was picked for the Junior boys 200m, which entailed three rounds, he breezed through his heat as the fastest qualifier, and much the same …Read More

Press Report 16th July 2018

Jul 162018

VAC 5km Championship (Vets AC) Battersea Park 10th July Ilford AC sent a large team of 9 runners down to Battersea Park for the Vets AC 5km Championships and came home with four age graded Bronze medals and a single Gold medal. First home for Ilford, and first medal of the day was Steve Philcox for 4th place in 17:16 and 3rd M50. Steve was closely followed by Gary Coombes in 10th place in 18:00 amd 3rd M45. Other finishers, who all performed well on the day were Rohan Alexander 16th place 20:14 5th M50, Steve Parker 28th 23:02 3rd M60, Trevor Robinson 33rd 23:42 4th M45, Rob Sargent 41st 25:55 6th M60, Doris Gaga 47th 27:56 3rd F50, Julie …Read More

Press Report. July 10th 2018

Jul 092018

SCVAC Match 3 (Southern Counties Veterans Athletics Club) Lee Valley 2nd July 2018 Match 3 was held at a sunny and hot Lee Valley on Monday. Ilford were going into this match in third place behind Enfield and Haringey and London Heathside. The sprints were the 100m and 400m with the middle/long distance events being 1500m and 5000m finishing with the medley relay of 200m, 200m, 400m and 800m. Field events were triple jump, discus and javelin. Sam Malekout won his V35 100m race but with it being split over two runs his time of 12.2s placed him 2nd. His V35 discus of 24m 51 secured 4th. Henry Ricketts covered V40 100m and his 13.4s gained 5th. A non-scoring V35 discus …Read More