Project 2012

Here are details of the elite athletes and their coach involved in Momentum Sport Project 2012, looking to achieve exceptional results in time for the London Olympics in 2012.

To see details of how they have progress last year, go to 2009 Project 2012 Season. Details of the 2010 season will go up shortly.

The Athletes

Chris Hall

Chris is a sprinter who has run and jumped for Wales, been competed in the England Athletics U23 Open Championships, qualified for British Universities finals and has been a regular team member of Kingston A.C. and Polytechnic Harriers’ British Athletics League team, performing in a range of jumps, sprints and hurdles. He has also been Surrey County Triple Jump champion.

200m is his best event having run 22.25 (and a wind assisted 22.04). Chris’s training is sure to reap the success he deserves in years to come when he competes for his Club, University, County and Country.

Humphrey Waddington

In his first two seasons as a triple jumper, Humphrey has risen to 21st on the UK rankings, with a 15.03pb and been invited to the UK Challenge Final for TJ after coming 8th in the UK Athletics merit rankings. He scored points in the BUSA Long and Triple Jump finals and qualified for the England Athletics U23 Open Championships in June 2009.

A former UK Sportshall Champion, Cambridge Blue and Men’s Team Captain for Kingston and Poly, Humphrey is national level competitor who is just returning to fitness after an operation on his ankle.

Tom Parry

Tom is ranked 13th in the U17 UK rankings at 100m Hurdles and he represented the Surrey Schools team in the English Schools Athletics Championships in each of the last 3 years. He won the Surrey County Championships, a silver medal at the recent South of England Championships and has run 13.54 this year. In 2008 season peaked in August reaching the England Athletics U17 100m Hurdles final and making his debut in the British League for Kingston winning the 400m hurdles B string in 58.28.

In 2009 he moved to 400m hurdles and reached the final of the English Schools in the first year in the age group. With a Pb of 55.35 he shows great potential for the future.

Tom trains hard and always wants to run faster – with this attitude he is sure to keep breaking his personal bests and to overcome an injury sustained in his last ever rugby match, which he is currently rehabilitating from.

Craig Price

Craig is a former Surrey Champion at 1500m and ran a fast 1.54.55 for 800m, when he was just 18. After taking a couple of years out from the sport, Craig has returned to the track with a burning desire to regain the form that took him to a national ranking in 2005, and after a reasonable season in 2009 started with indoor Pbs in both the 800m and 1500m of 1.57 and 4.03. Much is expected of Craig over the coming two seasons as he looks to be the top middle distance runner in the Kingston area.

 

 

Josh Patrick

Josh was a truly exceptional youngster running 10.73 for 100m when still in the U17 age group. Unfortunately, he was hit by a car in 2008 and has struggled to come back to his best since then. With the help the Momentum Sports can offer it is hoped that he will return to his best over the next two years and be challenging with the top sprinters of his age again.

 

Molly Renfer

Molly has made fantastic progress in 2010 and as a result has joined the Project 2012 group. She has taken her 800m Pb from 2.17.73 to 2.10.91 already and has qualified to run at the English Schools. She has also run pbs at 200m and 400m (27.0 and 58.51) and has run a great time of 56.3 in a 4x400m relay leg.

 

Project 2012 Academy

The athletes who currently a just below the level of the athletes above, but are looking to achieve significant performance in the next few years are George Corcoran, Maddy Hardwick, Isabelle Hatton, Gaby Miles, Ali Kokaz and Richard Smeaton

Group Coach

Richard Holt

Richard was an English Schools Champion at 400m before going on to compete for Surrey, Sheffield University , the North and British Universities Teams at 400m hurdles as well as many years with the successful Blackheath and Bromley club. His biggest achievement was reaching the final of the GB World Championships Trials in 1995, whilst coaching himself and a group in Sheffield.

Illness from 1997-2000 curtailed his ambition to compete at the top level, but he continued coaching and has coached many athletes at all levels over 15 years. His current crop is the strongest yet and should achieve considerable success over the next few seasons.

Group Sports Masseur

Jenna Hill

Jenna Hill is a graduate in sport rehabilitation and massage from St Mary's College. She is also a very dedicated middle distance athlete who has ranked highly at 800, 1500, 2000SC and 3000SC at U23 level. Her main role with the athletes will be for treatment and importantly the prevention of injuries.

She hopes to become a reliable and essential part of the team, who will make a posititve difference to both their performances and achievements.

 

 

 

 




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