North Wales Road Runners collected three prestigious awards at the Sport Conwy prize giving ceremony held last Friday night at Venue Cymru.
This popular annual event attracted a bumper turn-out from sponsors, supporters, sporting individuals and organisations, to recognise and honour Conwy’s most talented sports people.
The event included music by Billy Bibby, an initial address by Aaron Wynne from Conwy County Council, with an introduction by MC Matt Ward, followed by a speech from Cheryl Foster, a Welsh football referee and former player with Liverpool in the WSL.
Awards were later handed to the winners of each of the 12 varied sporting categories listed, which generally included three nominees, with special video clips used to highlight the talents of each.
NWRRC were successful in three separate categories including endurance athlete Mark Davies who won the Special Achievement award for his incredible performance in the Swiss 360 mountain ultra-running race, with the club also winning the Event of the Year prize for the Nick Beer Memorial 10k Road Race.
John Hatton took the main plaudits on the evening for deservedly winning the Service to Sport award for athletics, his long service to the sport, and for his dedication to a host of many other varied events, including Conwy Parkrun, Deganwy Dash, Nick Beer 10k, and to numerous highly successful charitable fundraising events.
The Nick Beer prize was also welcomed by John Hatton, his wife Kay Hatton, Ian Turner, and club colleague Carla Green in particular, for their generous support for this race over many years.
In John’s individual category, nominations were also received for Eifion Jones (multi-sport) and Ben Lightowler (adapted cycling).
Other results included:
*Junior sportsman – winner Freddie MacLaverty (sailing), with nominations for Kane Smith (athletics) and Xavier Poynton (Alpine skiing).
*Junior sports woman – winner Amy Richardson (football), with nominations for Ciara Cust (triathlon/swimming/athletics), and Agatha Favill ((skiing).
*Junior sports team – winner Clwb Hoci Eirias HC U14 girls (hockey), with nominations for Penrhyn Bay U16 girls (football), and Ysgol Craig y Don girls FC (football).
*Young volunteer – winner Will Beaumont (surf lifesaving), with nominations for Seren Woodall (athletics), and Cian McKenna (football).
*School of the year – winner – Ysgol Pen y Bryn.
Report by Don Hale. Photos by Steve Jeffery
The Road Runners enjoyed another good day at Conwy Parkrun last Saturday and celebrated with an amazing seven age category victories.
Josh Keogh repeated his fine win from last week with another solid performance to run home in 1st place yet again in 17 minutes 37 seconds, to additionally win his SM30 age cat, with tourist athlete Jack Chubb (Watford Joggers) taking the 2nd spot in 18.14, and teenager Oscar Evans (Vegan Runners) finishing 3rd in 18.30.
Ten NWRRC members took part and collected eight podium places including seven age cat wins. Steve Mason gave the top three runners a good chas, but eventually he had to settle for 4th place overall in 18.45 but won his MV45 cat.
Carla Green finished in 14th place overall and she was the 2nd female runner home in 21.16 and won her VW50 age cat. Cheryl Frost was the 4th female finisher and ran well in 26th place overall to win her VW55 cat in 23.16.
Stuart Culverhouse enjoyed a steady run in 38th place in 24.12, and Rob Fryer continued his excellent form to win his MV65 cat in 40th place in 24.21.
Dave Spofforth running with his young son Ben claimed 63rd place and he also won his JM10 cat with a great new PB of 26.11, meanwhile, master vet Don Hale was a bit off colour but won his MV70 age cat in 27.23 in 71st place, whilst Rachel Morris finished in 110th place in 31.49. Praise was given to the race director and to all the volunteers and marshals.
*This is the link to the provisional results from the Conwy Parkrun:
https://www.parkrun.org.uk/conwy/results/latestresults/
*Wilmslow Festive 10k: Two NWRRC athletes competed at the Wilmslow 10k race last Sunday and both recorded new PBs with Will Williams finishing in 228th place in 37.53, and Kelly Alford enjoyed another good run in 1,491st place in 49.56.
*Betws y Coed Trail races: Cai Roberts finished 29th in last Saturday’s half-marathon event in 2 hours 15 minutes and 50 seconds; Gwennan Charlton ran in the 10k race and finished in 33rd place overall in 1.21.22; and in the 10k Canicross race, John Ford made a welcome return to action and competed with his dog Blue, finishing in 5th place overall, and he was also 3rd in his MV50 age cat in 55.41, with club colleague Hannah Griffith running home with her dog Fred in 45th place in 1.20.25.
*Whitford: Four members of NWRRC took part in the latest North Wales cross-country fixture at Whitford last Saturday. Martin Green was the first club man home in this fast and furious encounter, and he finished in 22nd place in 28.51. Stuart Culverhouse was 84th in 33.31, with John Dalzell 101st in 34.39, and Michael (Pat) Finnie ran home in 43.18.
*This is the link to the provisional XC results from Whitford: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx…
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