Bay Harbour: February 13, 2019

Wednesday February 13 2019
FINAL PUSH:
Dave Fitch
running to
victory in the
Canterbury
Masters
3000m
champs.
SPORTS
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Fitch sets Sumner club
record at 3000m masters
Sumner Running Club coach
Ann Wells reports on how
the club is performing in the
second half of the season
THE CANTERBURY Masters
3000m champs were won
convincingly by Dave Fitch in 9min
44.92sec, with Simon Wooding
slipping into fourth place in the last
few metres of the race.
Fitch’s time broke Morgan Strong’s
eight-year club record. Fitch has also
broken the 800m and 1500m club
records this season.
The juniors are into the
second half of the season and are
working towards the Canterbury
championships to be held on March
16-17 at Nga Puna Wai.
Eli Dimbleby is showing good
form. He is new to athletics this year
in the grade 7 boys. Sibling crosscountry
runners Zara, 7, Tommy,
9, and Max, 10, Percasky, as well
as Lewis Cooke, 8, are also new to
athletics and are producing good
performances in the longer sprint
events.
Jonah Cropp, 13, continues to
dominate the track walk, having
moved up to 1600m from 1200m.
At the South Island Colgate Games
in Dunedin in January, he won with
a winning margin of 3min.
We are certainly enjoying having
an international standard track to
compete on after seven years of grass
at Rawhiti Domain.
BAY HARBOUR
(Right) –
Jonah Cropp,
13, has
continued to
dominate the
track walk
this season. QUICK: Eli Dimbleby gets going in the 200m.
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