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
Press Report 9th July 2019
Essex County Relay Champs Chelmsford Friday 28th June Ilford ACs Gold Rush at Essex Champs Relay Ilford entered 7 teams in the Essex Track relays at Chelmsford last weekend and came home with a successful 4 Gold medal, 1 Silver medal and a Club Record. First up was the Senior men and Senior women sprinters In the Senior Men’s 4 x 100, Ilfords team of Jordan Akinpelu,Wanya Williams, Daniel Wheeler &Nathaniel Senior ran a great race but just missed out on a medal with 4th position, in a real quality race. In the Senior Womens 4 x 100 Krystle Balogun, Eshimu Massamba Gemima, Ellie Wright & Esmeralda Mengeyele powered round to win Ilfords first Gold medal of the night. All …Read More
Press Report 2nd July 2019
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
Press Report 25th June 2019
Olympic Park 5km – Elvis #3 Tuesday 19 June The third round of this summer’s ELvis competition took place over a twisty but fast two lap 5km course in the Olympic Park last Tuesday. It was a good race for Ilford AC with 40 entrants, 11 of whom recorded new personal best times. Leading the way for the club was the ever reliable Malcolm Muir in 9th spot with 16 mins 58 secs. Two places back was Paul Holloway in a new personal best of 17 mins 13 secs which won him the prize for the first in the M50 category. Sam Rahman came in 17th with 17 mins 36 secs and Gary Coombes next over the line 2 seconds …Read More
Press Report 18th June 2019
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