Billy Green

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

Press Report. July 3rd 2018

Jul 022018

Southern League track and field Cricklefields Stadium 23rd June 2018 After an absence of almost 8 years, Southern League athletics returned to Cricklefield last Saturday, with Ilford hosting one of the third rounds of matches in division 3 north. It was a tough match for the host club, with 4 of the 5 opposing teams already above them in the table after 2 matches. Since returning to the League Sam Malekout has been Mr Consistency for Ilford, and he showed his value to the team again, by collecting 19 points from 6 events. He started off with a great 2nd place in the 400m hurdles, running his fastest time for 5 years. Which he followed by taking on both the …Read More

Press Report June 26th 2018

Jun 252018

VAC 5m Championship Battersea Park Tuesday 19 June The annual Veterans AC 5 mile road championship was held on the flat fast 3 lap circuit around the picturesque Battersea Park and there was a record entry of 9 from the Ilford endurance squad. It was a successful night for the club as they took home 5 medals. Best for the club was Steve Philcox in 6th with 29 mins 47 secs taking the M50 silver medal. Sam Rahman also broke 30 minutes in 8th and won the M35 category in 29 mins 57 secs Rohan Alexander took a bronze in the M50 age group in 33 mins 55 secs for 15th,Doris Gaga also won a bronze medal in the F50 …Read More