The
Triple Crown Race
The
University of London Cross Country Championships, The United Hospitals Cross
Country Championships (‘The Bannister Cup’) and of course London Colleges
League Round 4
Adventures in the land of mud…
Thanks
to everyone that raced in or organized race 4 of the season. There was some
serious mud out there, proper cross country conditions to suit the mud monkeys
but a shorter race to keep the track stars interested. The severe camber on
the steep uphill around the back of the course led to some slips and trips and the sharp downhill section just before the finish area provided further
opportunities to get well acquainted with the Ally Pally clay.
Women’s LCL Race
Emily
Hosker-Thornhill of St Mary’s won the race in 17:44 for her third victory of
the season from four races. She was followed home by Melissa Courtney of Brunel
in 18:07 and Sarah Astin of St Mary’s.
The
rest of the top ten were; Gemma Astin (St Mary’s), Armelle Folkes (King’s),
Maria Blocher (King’s), Abi Schofield (Bedford), Meg Kobza (UCL), Katie Allen
(Brunel) and Shannon Colman (King’s).
LCL Team Standings after round 4
St
Mary’s had three women (Hosker-Thornhill, Astin and Astin) in the top four
places and now have more than a hundred point lead.
King’s
brought along another new speedster in Armelle Folkes who brought out yet
another superb performance from Maria Blocher: they took places five, six and
ten (Folkes, Blocher, Colman).
UCLs
scorers were all finished within the top 14 places with a close 5 second margin
between Ella Fuller and Emily Bliss (Kobza, Fuller, Bliss).
Brunel
were all in within the top 20 with another storming run from Melissa Courtney
(Courtney, Allen, Wallace). Reading were all finished within the top 25 (Burroughs,
Pecoraro, Madry).
Team
|
Total Points
|
|
1
|
St Mary's
|
1176
|
2
|
King's College London
|
1069
|
3
|
University College London
|
1039
|
4
|
Brunel University
|
1013
|
5
|
University of Reading
|
945
|
6
|
King's II
|
922
|
7
|
Imperial College London
|
866
|
8
|
UCL II
|
860
|
9
|
University of Bedfordshire
|
856
|
10
|
King's III
|
787
|
UL XC Champs individual result
The
University of London Cross Country Championships ran as a race within a race of
this LCL. Accordingly the individual medals were awarded as follows:
Gold:
Armelle Folkes (King’s)
Silver:
Maria Blocher (King’s)
Bronze:
Meg Kobza (UCL)
Shannon
Colman (King’s) and Ella Fuller (UCL) completed the top five runners from UL
colleges.
UL XC Champs Team Result
Gold: King’s: [Folkes, Blocher, Colman]
Silver: UCL (1st team): [Kobza, Fuller, Bliss]
Bronze: UCL (2nd Team): [Gorman, Fiabema, Hargreaves]
Men’s LCL race
Clinton
Hill of Imperial won in 22:59, becoming the first non-St Mary’s winner of the
season. Imperial were obviously on a smash and grab mission with Chris Bannon
following Hill home only 9 seconds later in 23:08. St Mary’s did manage to get
third with Luca Russo finishing in 23:22.
The
rest of the top ten were; Joe Morwood (St George’s), Ryan Driscoll (St Mary’s),
Michael Wood (St Mary’s), Jason Prickett (St Mary’s), Jack Williams (St
Mary’s), Jack Williams (St Mary’s), Faron Hesse (Imperial) and Patrick Hough
(UCL).
LCL Team Standings after round 4
Despite
the result this week St Mary’s are still bossing the league: scorers Russo,
Driscoll, Wood, Prickett, Williams and Fry all finished in the top 17.
Imperial’s scorers (Cahall, Bannon, Hesse, O’Neill, Ellis and Bogg) all
finished within 22. Brunel’s scorers (Ditton, Larsen, Chandler, O’Dowd, Larsen
and Penfold) all within the top 37.
1
|
St Mary's University College
|
3493
|
2
|
Imperial College London
|
3164
|
3
|
Brunel
|
3050
|
4
|
University College London
|
2796
|
5
|
Imperial College II
|
2424
|
6
|
University of Reading
|
2387
|
7
|
London School of Economics
|
2196
|
8
|
University of Bedfordshire
|
2194
|
9
|
Barts and the London
|
2112
|
10
|
St Marys II
|
2096
|
UL XC Champs Mens individual results
Gold: Joe Morwood (St George’s)
Silver: Patrick Hough (UCL)
Bronze: Fergal Smithwick (LSE)
Rob
Walker (Barts and the London) and James Pigot (UCL) completed the top five from
UL colleges.
UL XC Champs Team Result (First 4 men to
count as scorers in the UL Champs)
Gold: UCL (1st Team) [Hough, Pigot, Lloyd, De Donker]
Silver: UCL (2nd Team) [Barron, Kronener, Franklin, Canty]
Bronze: Barts and the London [Walker, Townsend, Kantsedikas,
Hine] (GET IN!!)
Top 5 Men’s UL College Teams in the LCL
Imperial
1. UCL
[Hough, Pigot, Lloyd, De Donker, Barron, Kronener]
Imperial
IIs
2. LSE
[Smithwick, Rosen, Stevens, Schwarz, Liote, Jones]
3. Barts
[Walker, Townsend, Kantsedikas, Hone, Masters, Croysdale]
4. KCL
[Vazquez, WIngrove, Irvine, Woodburn, Rhule, James]
5. UCL
IIs [Franklin, Canty, Faulkner, Hutton, Partridge, Bingham]
Top 5 Women’s UL College Teams in the LCL
1. King’s
[Folkes, Blocher, Colman]
2. UCL
[Kobza, Fuller, Bliss]
3. King’s
IIs [Hever, Dransfield, Smart]
4. UCL
IIs [Gorman, Fiabema, Hargreaves]
5. King’s
IIIs [Moody, McDermott, Browne]
Come
on Barts and LSE, get in amongst it, King’s and UCL take up 9 of the top 20 women's team places between them, ridiculous…
Leading Individual Men after 4 races
1
|
Jason Prickett
|
St Mary's
|
586
|
2
|
David Fry
|
St Mary's
|
555
|
3
|
Patrick Hough
|
UCL
|
545
|
4
|
Sam O'Neill
|
Imperial
|
535
|
5
|
James Ellis
|
Imperial
|
510
|
6
|
Reuben Bogg
|
Imperial
|
508
|
7
|
Rob Walker
|
Barts
|
503
|
8
|
Tom Fricker
|
Reading
|
502
|
9
|
Joe Strange
|
Bedfordshire
|
497
|
10
|
Sam Bennett
|
Bedfordshire
|
494
|
Leading Individual Women after 4 races
1
|
Gemma Astin
|
St Mary's
|
384
|
2
|
Sarah Astin
|
St Mary's
|
384
|
3
|
Maria Blöcher
|
King's
|
365
|
4
|
Abi Schofield
|
Bedfordshire
|
364
|
5
|
Anna Rusk
|
Bedfordshire
|
359
|
6
|
Ella Fuller
|
UCL
|
355
|
7
|
Shannon Colman
|
King's
|
351
|
8
|
Emma Burroughs
|
Reading
|
349
|
9
|
Emily Bliss
|
UCL
|
348
|
10
|
Pennylouise Hever
|
King's
|
319
|
Phew, done, long one... thanks to all involved (particularly Ming and the other officials) for four great races this term, busy and intense racing in London's beautiful parks! Have a
great Christmas and New Year everyone and see you all at Reading in January.
