For Queen and Country.

Georgie Campbell proudly wearing her England vest. I'm still buzzing from last night's final Vet's T&F league fixture of the year at Worcester, with the Cup Final still to come on 31st August. It was another special night, best summed up by Paula's quote at the end of this newsletter. A full report will follow. Even thought it's a relatively short newsletter, we should still all take pride in the contents and in particular the achievement of 4 of our members who have been competing for their country. We have Lewis Byng becoming the first British athlete in 30 years to reach an U20 final in the Men’s Shot at the Biennial European Athletics U20 Championships. An incredible achievement. At the same championships we also had Jack Sumners who 5 days later was joined by Ollie Cresswell and Georgie Campbell representing their country in Cardiff. We should never become blasé about our club members representing their country. As Scott Grace, GB's joint team manager said after the European Athletics U20 championships "everyone should remember how many people were born in the same years as the 69 strong team and that the athletes were the very best and good enough to be one of the few selected to represent their country". We also had 8 of our senior athletes competing in the Monty 5k, 6 of who achieved lifetime best times and no newsletter would seem complete without a race report on Phil Brennan, this time achieving a 2nd place age category performance in the Caterham 10k. Enjoy the rest of your week Best Wishes David Jones Welsh Athletics U20 International. Report - David Jones. Three club members were representing their country at the recent Welsh Athletics U20 International held at the Cardiff International Stadium. Making her international debut, Georgie Campbell finished 5th in the 1500m with her 2nd best ever time of 4:43.54, just one second off her lifetime best. Georgie thoroughly enjoyed the experience of competing in a hugely competitive race against talented athletes in an older age group. Her coach Paul Hawkins commented that he was extremely proud of her, indeed, we should all be extremely proud of her. Just five days after reaching the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles at the European U20 Championships in Sweden, Jack Sumners was back in action, this time in the long jump. Jack, who is currently fifth in the UK U20 rankings, jumped 7.10m to finish second, just 13 centimetres off the winning jump. Ollie Creswell, currently ranked seventh in the U20 age group in the 110m hurdles, was the first of three English athletes in Cardiff, finishing fourth in 14.69. Jack and Lewis with Stratford AC's Charlie Burn, who works for UKA and was one of the team managers The Biennial European Athletics U20 Championships. Report - Paul Bearman. These Championships were held in Boras, Sweden and are for the very best European athletes who are 19 years of age or under. Stratford AC’s UK U20 and U23 Shot gold…