A number of ‘On Camp with Kelly’ athletes have set new personal bests over the last week.

At the Flanders Cup meeting in Ninove, Belgium, on Saturday 7 August Stacey Smith (Gateshead Harriers) took a massive five and a half seconds off her 1500m best, clocking 4:10.00 to finish fifth behind winner Nikki Hamblin’s (New Zealand) 4:07.90.  Stacey’s time exactly equals the England qualifying standard for the Commonwealth Games.  Carolyn Plateau (Radley AC) finished fourth in the 800m in 2:05.47, improving on the 2:05.7 she had run in 2005.

At the Amsterdam Open on 7 August Ed Aston (Cambridge & Coleridge) won the 800m in a new best of 1:47.91 ahead of Slovak Jozef Repcik’s 1:48.12.  He then took nearly a second off that time with 1:47.02, a qualifying time for the Commonwealth Games, for fourth place at the Folksam Grand Prix meeting in Gothenburg on Tuesday 10 August.

Also in Gothenburg Charlotte Browning (Aldershot Farnham & District) improved her 800m best by three seconds with a time of 2:02.52 for sixth place.  Ricky Stevenson (New Marske Harriers) clocked 3:42.82 for 12th place in the men’s 1500m.

Emma Jackson (City of Stoke) improved her 800m best to 2:01.47 in a mixed race at Stretford on 10 August.  Jordan Kinney (Royal Sutton Coldfield) also improved her personal best to 2:09.40 while Charlotte Best (Crawley AC) ran 2:04.37 for 800m and Claire Tarplee (Solihull & Small Heath) 4:21.36 for 1500m at the same meeting.

Andrew Osagie (Harlow AC) won the 800m by two and half seconds at the BMC Gold Standard meeting at Watford on Wednesday 11 August in 1:47.49, inside the qualifying time for the Commonwealth Games.  Shelayna Oskan clocked 2:08.27 in third place in the women’s 800m. 

Hannah England finished 14th in 4:07.86 in the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Friday 6 August.  The race was won by Nancy Jebet Langat of Kenya in 4:00.72.

Simon Horsfield (East Cheshire & Tameside) won the B race at the BMC 5k Fest at Trafford on 7 August in 14:35.0.  This was his quickest time ever but as the races were started with a klaxon does not count for ranking purposes.  Charlotte Purdue also ran her quickest ever time of 15:43.0 in 11th in the mixed C race.


Click on the links below to watch race footage and interviews on www.athleticos.org

Interview with Hannah England
Men’s 5000m B race at Trafford
Interview with Simon Horsfield
Mixed 5000m C race at Trafford