Athletics: Lawson stars at championships

Nov 3 2007 by Bob Cypher, South Wales Echo

SIMON Lawson was the star of the show at the tenth South Wales Regional Schools cross-country championship for boys, held at Trelai Park, Cardiff.

It was back in 2002 that the then year 8 pupil first underlined his potential by winning the u13 event at the fifth version of these championships.

In the intervening years, he has won three more times.

This year, on an unusually mild and sunny afternoon, there was no holding the year 13 student as he moved away from the field from the start for a gun-to-tape victory, retaining his senior title from year 11 Jonathan Hopkins (Brynteg), the 2006 u15 champion.

There was a second individual title for Llanishen High in the u15 section as year 10 Joel Redman also adopted front-running tactics to finish twelve seconds clear of Vale rival Owen Haswell (Stanwell). In the u13 race, the victory of Matthew Antoniazzi was the first medal success for the Lewis School in Pengam

Results

U19 (5.5km): 1 Simon Lawson (Lsn)18:18; 2 Jonathan Hopkins (B’teg)19:59; 3 Dafydd Jones (Cwm R)20:11; 4 Daniel Hiscox (Aber B)20:17; 5 Daniel Bodman (Blaen)20:20; 6 Daniel Thomas (Cow)20:28; 7 Luke Swaffield (StD Coll)20:29; 8 Hywel Jones (Cwm R)20:31; 9 Tom Whitmarsh-Knight (Bro M)20:35; 10 Carl Hill (Blaen)20:41; 11 Josh Hurford (Lsn)20:48; 12 Craig Hudson (Rad)20:52; 13 Ryan Harding (Cwm R)20:53; 14 Kyle Dowling (B Celyn)20:55; 15 Craig Sprod (Blaen)20:58; 16 Michael Doogan (CHS)21:06; 17 Owain Chick (Cwm R)21:08; 18 Wil Jones (Cow)21:17; 19 Abdi Yussef (Whit)21:23; 20 Marcus James (B Celyn)21:35; 21 Jonathan Slade (B’teg) 21:37; 22 Tom Hall (Lsn) 21:38; 23 Chris Silver (Lsn) 21:41; 24 Chris Price (Cwm R) 21:54; 25 Matt Thomas (Lsn) 21:57; 26 Richard Needham (Cwm R) 22:02; 27 David Garner (CHS) 22:03; 28 Ben Roach (PyD) 22:11; 29 Joe Beech (Cow) 22:13; 30 Rhys Heaven (Lewis B) 22:15

TEAM: 1 YG Cwm Rhymni 41; 2 Llanishen 57; 3 Blaengwawr 65; 4 Cowbridge 110; 5 YG Cwm Rhymni B 114; 6 Brynteg 132; 7 Cardiff High 141; 8 Lewis Boys 184

U15 (4.3km): 1 Joel Redman (Lsn) 16:02; 2 Owen Haswell (Stan) 16:14; 3 Daniel Richards (Haw) 16:19; 4 Tom Davis (P’cawl) 16:22; 5 Alex Edwards (Lewis B) 16:26; 6 Ross Jones (Cwm R) 16:32; 7 Sebastian Langeveldt (Lsn) 16:45; 8 Declan Court (CHS) 17:01; 9 Connor Wickham (Blaen) 17:02; 10 Darren Jones (Lwt) 17:03; 11 Stefano Falsini (Lsn) 17:03; 12 Rhys Thomas (BoLlan) 17:05; 13 Alex Simon (Lwt) 17:06; 14 Peter Davies (CHS) 17:09; 15 Elliot Mears (Cow) 17:10; 16 Joseff Whitmarsh-Knight (Bro M) 17:13; 17 Sam Bartlett (Lsn) 17:15; 18 Lloyd Bradley (L’hari) 17:17; 19 Nick Gallimore (CHS) 17:21; 20 Jacob Humphreys (Lsn) 17:22; 21 Joel Richards (Cwm R) 17:23; 22 Ben Brown (Lsn) 17:24; 23 Richard Monnikendam (CHS) 17:26; 24 Sam Pemberton (CHS) 17:27; 25 Michael O'Rourke (Cow) 17:29; 26 Cai Roberts (Cwm R) 17:31; 27 Ethan Jones (B Celyn) 17:33; 28 Aled Pottinger (CHS) 17:39; 29 Harry Wootten (Whit) 17:41; 30 Garyn Richards (Haw) 17:42

TEAM: 1 Llanishen 36; 2 Cardiff High 64; 3 YG Cwm Rhymni 84; 4 Llantwit 135; 5 Cardiff High B 141; 6 Cowbridge 154; 7 Whitchurch 167; 8 Hawthorn 170

U13 (2.7km): 1 Matthew Antoniazzi (Lewis B) 10:34; 2 McCorley Birkinshaw (Haw) 10:39; 3 Sam Longville (Rad) 10:41; 4 Jake Nippers (Whit) 10:46; 5 Mike Ward (Lsn) 10:47; 6 Tom Bevan (CHS) 10:51; 7 Rory Heslop (Bro M) 10:56; 8 Alex Davies (Lewis B) 11:06; 9 Joseph Scrivens (Cwm R) 11:08; 10 Gareth Evans-Davies (L’hari) 11:09; 11 Tom Hughes (CHS) 11:10; 12 Connor Taylor (Lwt) 11:11; 13 Jacques Wilton (CHS) 11:19; 14 Adam Hewitt (Cow) 11:19; 15 Elliot Richards (Stan) 11:20; 16 Elliot Parry (Lwt) 11:22; 17 Dylan Yates (Cwm R) 11:23; 18 Rhys Griffin (Cow) 11:24; 19 Joe Dyer (Stan) 11:26; 20 Joe Roberts (Cy’fa) 11:27; 21 Mathew Sullivan (Cow) 11:28; 22 Geraint Jones (Cwm R) 11:28; 23 David Shallis (StCy) 11:29; 24 Matthew Edwards (Bar) 11:29; 25 Tom Adler (PyD) 11:29; 26 Zak Bartlett (Lsn) 11:30; 27 Ben Smith (B Celyn) 11:31; 28 Harri Williams (Bro M) 11:31; 29 Dan Owen (Lwt) 11:32; 30 Regan May (Cwm R) 11:33

TEAM: 1 YG Cwm Rhymni 78; 2 Cardiff High 85; 3 Cowbridge 87; 4 Llantwit 89; 5 Lewis Boys 93; 6 Llanishen 126; 7 Radyr 132; 8 Stanwell 140.