Billy Green

Press Report 21st June 2022

Jun 212022

British Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships Derby 10-12 June Krystle Balogun continued to impress in her W35 endeavours with a superb Gold medal in the W35 200m, clocking 26.43seconds into a stiff -3.1m/s headwind putting her 0.5seconds clear of the field. Earlier in the day she had captured a Bronze medal in the 100m which served as a good warmup for the afternoon’s 200m. She takes another step towards representing Great Britain at the World Masters Championships in Tampere, Finland in July where she’ll contest her favoured 200m event. Southern League Parliament Hill 12th June A small Ilford team produced some fine performances at the recent Southern League match at Parliament Hill, the team eventually finished 4th after battling …Read More

Press Report 14th June 2022

Jun 142022

ESSEX 5000m Championship Chelmsford Wednesday 8 June It was the ladies team of Ilford Ac who fared best for the club at the Essex 5000m championship at the Chelmsford track. Sameena Ahmed moved up the field as the race unfolded to come home 4th overall in 19 mins 38. secs which placed her second in the F40 category to take the silver county medal. Joanne Reeves was racing on the track for the first time and recorded a very creditable 21 mins 39.3 secs coming home 6th and was third in the F40 age grouping taking the bronze championship medal. Gaye Young won her first county gold in winning the F50 age category in 23 mins 09.2 secs finishing 8th …Read More

Press Report 7th June 2022

Jun 072022

Eastern Young Athletes League. Chelmsford 5th June 2022 The second Young athletes league match was held at Chelmsford at the weekend. Even though the Jubilee celebrations were taking place all over the country ,the key Ilford AC youngsters turned up at Chelmsford to compete for their club. With very strong opposition it was a great achievement to see Ilford win 2 of the events in the Mens u17s. Firstly Oliver Blainey maintained his winning record over 400 in the league and Essex Championships this year with a comfortable win in 51.4. Oliver has Essex Schools this weekend where he will need to run a much quicker time to get a spot at the English schools. The other winning run was …Read More

Press Report 31st May 2022

May 312022

Dagenham 88 ELVIS Central Park, Dagenham Wednesday 25 May The 2023 Summer Elvis league kicked off on an off-road grass and gravel course of just under 5 miles last Wednesday in Central Park Dagenham. Ilford AC had 25 runners in action. It was a successful start to the competition for Ilford with Paul Grange winning a tactical race in 27 mins 32 secs and his 15-year-old son coming in an excellent 3rd spot just 4 seconds behind. The club also had two more runners in the top 20 with Steve Philcox placing 16th in 30 mins 16secs and taking the prize for 1st over 50 and Sam Rahman one place behind 30 mins 20 secs. Another of the club’s young athletes Ryan Holeyman …Read More

Southern Athletic League Press Report May 30th 2022

May 302022

Ilford AC competed in the first Southern athletic league of the 2022 season at Lee valley last weekend. Ilford had a small team that turned out but as usual the whole team competed to a high level to finish 4th in the match. With a few more events covered Ilford would have been closer to the leading teams The 6 Ilford AC Ladies had a very successful day. First up as usual was the ever reliable Krystle Balogun, who came third in the 100 with 13.2 and second in the 200 in a great time of 26.5. Krystle also got good points in the Shot with a throw of 6.98. Backing Krystal up in the sprints was the returning …Read More