TRACK Samuels storms home at English Schools championships   ESAA English Schools’ Championships Birmingham 13th July 2019 Ilford AC had 2 athletes compete in the prestigious English Schools athletics championships 2019, held at Birmingham. The English Schools is seen as competing at the highest level achievable at school level, as every top athlete in the Country competes and Aaron Samuels and Marion Dobrescu were the Ilford AC athletes in the Essex team   Due to GCSEs Aaron Samuels has had to try and combine his studies with his training , which has obviously reduced the amount of time he has been able to train. Aaron decided about a month ago to compete in the 1500 steeplechase at the Essex Schools , …Read More

SCVAC – Southern Counties vets track league Lee Valley Monday 24th June Match 3 of the Vets season was held at Lee Valley on the evening of the 24th June. The Men’s team triumphed for the third match in a row and go into the last match of the regular season in a great position. Sam Malekout covered the V35 triple jump, discus, 100m and 400m finishing 3rd and 5th in the field events and winning both short and long sprints. Malcolm Muir came down an age group to win the 5000m in the V35 age group. The first place theme was continued by Sam Rahman who won the 1500m in the same age group. In the V40 category Paul …Read More

Southern Athletics League – Match 3 Parliament Hill, London Saturday 15th June Ilford made a short trip across town to Parliament Hill fields for their third Southern League fixture of the season, unfortunately the recent wind and rain prevailed so times were generally slow. Top performer on the men’s side was recent  new joiner Paul Grange, who firstly came second in a very fast 800m in a time of 1.56.2, this knocked over 10 seconds Ilford’s over 40’s club record, not content with this he came back less than an hour later to come second in the 400m in a time of 52.7, which was again an Ilford vets record. Jak Wright  also did the 400m/800m double and in finishing …Read More