There was a contingent of Bicester AC athletes at the recent Radley AC open track and field meeting held at Tilsley Park. It has been a long season for the athletes and personal bests were hard to come by. However there was a superb trio of performances from Olivia Naidu – Johnson. She was 3rd in her heat of the 200m clocking with an under 15 woman’s EA PB level 6 time of 28.77secs, a personal best time and her first sub 29secs clocking. Grace jarvey finished 5th in the same heat clocking (29.83secs). Naidu – Johnson also jumped a season’s best of 4.20m in the long jump, the best leap in her long jump event, as well as finishing 2nd in the heat of the 100m (13.69secs). Grace Jarvey also contested the long jump where she finished 9th (3.49m).
Erlgean Appiahkorang-Mensah contested two of the track running events and ran a superb race to win his heat of the 200m in a new best and under 15 boy’s EA PB level 5 time of 25.10secs. He was not able to match his heroics of the previous Wednesday in the 800m but still managed a 3rd place in his heat of the 800m with an under 15 boy’s EA PB level 6 clocking of 2mins 9.64secs. Cyrus Ariana also contested the 800m and he placed 4th in his heat of the 800m clocking an EA PB level 6 time of 2mins 24.37secs.
Charlie Simpson competed in the quad competition finishing in overall 8th place with 258 points. Simpson produced the 4th best in the long jump (3.46m) and was close to his best in the 600m (2mins 3.83secs). Evie Thompson competed in the girl’s quad competition finishing 14h with 146 points which included a best in the howler (7.60m). Bicester had two further competitors in long jump events with Oscar Jarvey jumping well for 5th in his long jump competition with 3.80m. And Emily Benefield also finished 5th in her long jump competition with 4.22m.