Junior Press Report 8th November 2022  

Nov 082022
 

District X Country championships

Great performances by our young athletes at Redbridge District schools X Country championships 

Khalif Ali (year 6) ran in the year 7 race and performed brilliantly to finish in 8th position against older boys.

Kaleb Berhe ran an excellent race in the same race and finished in 10th position.

Ryder Islam had a great run to finish in 4th position and considering he also raced last night in the Chingford league this was an excellent performance. 

Aron Berhe ran a solid race and finished strongly in 10th place.

Nora Nzurike ran consistently in the  year 8-9 race and finished well to claim 45th place.

In the year 10-11 race Anika Sharma ran a strong race to finish 5th .
Hopefully our athletes will have qualified to represent their Borough at the London youth games on November 19th at Parliament Hill fields 

  Valentines Park Press Report  

Sep 272022
 
Preceding the Final Elvis match of the series, there was a Junior 2k race which Ilford AC, impressively, entered 10 athletes who all ran to a high standard –
1st Samuel Crane 8.04
2nd Mohamed Zergouat 8.09
5th Kaleb Behre 8.44
6th Anika Sharma 9.33
7th Jayden McDermott 9.40
8th Luke Thake 10.42
10th Ibrahim Khan 11.08
11th Hashim Khan 11.10
12th Saif Crane 11.32
13th Sofia Crane 12.11

  Junior Press Report 3rd May 2022  

May 032022
 

Eastern Young Athletes League
Thurrock
1st May 2022

At the weekend Ilford Ac’s Youngsters returned to League competition in the Eastern Young athletes league. Ilford have joined up with Orion  to compete in the league and this has enabled Ilfords Youngsters to compete in a very competitive environment

Ilford had the established youngsters that have competed for the last few years and It was great to see the influx of a number of new youngsters, who were competing in the league for the very first time

The 7 established youngsters all broke their personal bests or won their race , which hopefully means they will all have a successful track season .

One of the best performers of the day was James Thake, who did the maximum 4 events and was terrific in all events. His first event was the U15s 800. James ran a sensible race and tucked in behind the leaders until the 600 mark and then powered past the leaders to win in an impressive 2.18. He returned back for the 300 where he just got beat  but once again showed off his speed in a pb of 41.5. James also came third in the High Jump in 1.45M(PB) and ran the relay

Aaron Hick did 3 events on the day. He was in the same race as James in the 800 and came third in the B string in 2.25. He then ran the 300m for third but ran a great time of 44.4 for a big PB and then broke his javelin pb to throw 17.53

Staying with the U15s Samuel Crane and Ryder Islam competed in the 1500m. Both athletes were outstanding and ran Personal bests. Samuel broke the 5 min barrier for the first time with 4.59 and Ryder ran superb for 5.21. Both have lots more to give to get these times down over the next few months

Moving onto the U17s and Ilford had 3 Outstanding athletes competing

First on the track was Ronan Edwards who was doing the 800 and 400 events. In the 800 Ronan stayed with the leaders the whole race and came a superb 3rd in a massive personal best of 2.05. He returned an hour later to run a pb in the 400 of 56.7

Joseph Grange competed in the U17s 1500m and was outstanding as usual. Joseph has had a great Cross country season and comes into the track season with much confidence. He was racing against the Chelmsford lad who beat Joseph on a number of occasions on the track last summer but Joseph took the race from the very start and went away from the field over the last 800m to power home in a big PB of 4.17

Last but not least Oliver Blainey was  competing in the u17s 400 and 200 . Oliver had already this season broken his pb in both events and is getting stronger with every race. In the 400m Oliver powered round the first bend and maintained his form for the rest of the race to come home 1st in a near PB of 51.8 and in the 200m was able to hold off all his rivals in a very quick 23.03

Over the past year Ilford AC have been running a foundation group of young people new to running and athletics and this Saturday we used the opportunity of the ‘Eastern Young Athletes’ league to give 10 youngsters their athletics debut.
Many competed in multiple events and all did the club and themselves proud.
With this being their first time in competition it was difficult to know whether the youngsters would compete in A or B teams or run in non scoring races, which were held to allow everyone who wanted to compete a chance to do so.
Below are our first time athletes results :- 

U13G  
Laila Charles 100m 15.7  4th (A) / 200m  36.1 6th (A) / 100m leg of 4 x 100m relay

Ruby Moffat 100m 16.8  5th (B) / 200m 36.8 non scorer /  100m leg of 4 x 100m relay

Katie Burke 100m 19.6  non scorer / 200m  41.9 5th (B)

U15G 

Stacey Amaniampong 100m 14.7 non scorer / 200m  32.2 non scorer / 100m leg of 4 x 100m relay / Long jump  2.03m 4th (B)

Reianne Dowridge 100m 14.5 non scorer / 200m 31.5 non scorer / 200m  31.5 non scorer

Both girls would have finished 4th and 5th in main races

Anika Sharma 100m 16.1 non scorer / 300m  54.8 non scorer / Long jump 2.98m non scorer .

U13B

Luke Thake 100m 16.00 4th (B) / 200m 34.5  non scorer / 100m leg of 4 x 100m relay 

Tyran Pabla  100m  16.6 non scorer / 200m 34.9 4th (B) / 100m leg of 4 x 100m relay

U15B

Jayden McDermott  100m 13.8  4th (B) / 200m  29.7 non scoring / 100m leg of 4 x 100m relay / Shot put 4.52 5th

U17M

Mohamed Zergouat  100m 12.8 6th (A) / 200m  27.7  3rd (B) and relay

  Press Report 27th July 2021 – TRACK  

Jul 272021
 

*Open Meeting Saturday 24th July 2021 Mayesbrook*

Ilford young sprinters produced some fantastic times at the Bit fit Academy Open meeting at Mayesbrook last weekend

The 100m runners had two races and the Star performance was from Fidunu Abidekun who produced a brilliant effort of 10.82 in his first run, however in his second run he produced and even faster time of 10.76, this is the 16th fastest in the country for his age and the second fastest ever by an Ilford Under 20 sprinter.

Abdulhakim Mohamed also produced a very fast run of 10.89 in his first run, but unfortunately the wind was slightly over the legal limit, in his second run he produced a legal time of 10.92 which was only just outside is personal best.

Efemena Adjarho has produced a series of consistent performances of the summer and she continued this with times of 13.35 and 13.24 and its only a matter of time before she smashes per pb.

Krystle Balogun continued her build up to next week’s Essex champs with a good run in the 200m, placing 2nd in her heat in a time of 26.40

In the 800m James Thake in only his second race reduced his 800m pb to 2.22.23

Ryder Islam had already had a busy day before the 1500m, which included an early morning open water swim and taking part in the Barking Park run. His 1500m time of 5.38. 03 was very good.

*Open Meeting Lee Valley 21st July*

Aleena Lawrence ran a 100m pb of 13.24 at the Lee Valley sprint open Meeting last Wednesday

  Youth Press Report 29th September 2020  

Sep 292020
 

YOUTH REPORT

 

Harrow open track meeting
Thursday 24th September 2020

 

Several of Ilford youngsters went to Harrow last Thursday, in what was a well organised open meeting of middle distance races.

First up was recent recruit Rhys Edwards in the 800m, staying slightly off the pace and going through 800m in 61 seconds, Rhys looked really strong along the back straight and was still moving through the field at the finish. He was rewarded with new pb of 2.03.54

 

The other three athletes ran in the 1500m.
Jordan Hinds was in race 4 and by this time of night the temperature had dropped slightly. Jordan has never been a fan of the cold, but managed to run a very good race to record a pb of 5.09.44

Ryan Holeyman was in race 9 , and the pace of the race was much quicker than he had ever run before. Ryan started off at the back of the field as the race went on he gradually moved his way through and produced a very good last lap to finish with a time of 4.33.74, a 6 second pb, his second pb of the season.

Aaron Samuel was in the last race of the night and the pace was quick from the off. Aaron was in good position for the whole race, but just could not make contact with the leaders to make a decisive move.

Nevertheless he knocked a second off his own pb in only his first race of the season. His time was 3.56.12 which is only 1/10 th of a second outside the club u20 1500m record.