Written by Graham French ESM young athlete Dilan Khurana was tragically taken from us in March (https://esm.org.uk/dilan-khurana/). As well as being a dedicated club competitor, he was a passionate parkrunner, having completed several junior parkruns and 17 senior parkruns, most of them at Gunnersbury. We recently decided it would be […]
Written by Debra Booker Leila Newth concluded a successful weekend at the England Athletics Championships in Birmingham with two gold medals. She won the U17 women’s triple jump with a distance of 12.33m, following her wind-assisted 5.92m victory in the long jump on Saturday. It was a brilliant couple of […]
Written by Debra Booker ESM’s Leila Newth has delivered back-to-back record-breaking performances, earning the award for the most outstanding girls’ performance at the Schools International Athletics Board (SIAB) meeting – just one week after claiming gold and breaking the championship record at English Schools. Leila, who was the English Schools’ […]
Written by Debra Booker A number of ESM juniors ventured to South London on the 7th & 8th June 2025 for the SEAA Track & Field age group championships at Crystal Palace. ESM athletes brought home 6 medals and 3 new club records! Well done to Emmanuel Ofori-Manteau who came […]
Written by Pat Cornell ESM’s senior track and field team got their season off to a flying start with a comfortable victory in their Southern Athletic League match at Perivale on Saturday, 17th May 2025, scoring 334 points well ahead of Highgate in second with 334 and the other 6 […]
Written by Timothy Hannah ESM AC athletes put in a solid performance at Woking on Sunday. We share a joint Youth Development League team with our neighbours Thames Valley Harriers in this league. We finished second out of six teams on the day lifting us into third place in the […]
Written by Debra Booker & Graham French On 31st March 2025, we received the devastating news that one of our young athletes, 16-year-old Dilan Khurana, had passed away.Dilan suffered a sudden and catastrophic brain hemorrhage. He had no symptoms, and there was no way his family could have known about […]
Authored by Debra Booker A second visit in a month to the Sheffield Institute of Sport stadium saw Leila take another gold medal. After topping the podium in the triple jump in February, she overcame the UK’s top combined event athletes to win the under 17 Pentathlon gold. A field […]
Authored by Armen Kanikanian The 488th Northala Fields parkrun, held on March 8, 2025, was a truly special occasion. This week’s event was entirely run by members of Ealing, Southall & Middlesex (ESM) Athletics Club, who took full charge of every volunteer role—from timekeeping to barcode scanning and marshalling. It […]
Authored by Graham French The National returned to Parliament Hill this year, a venue famed for its muddy and challenging courses in February – and this year was no exception. Twenty-six ESM young athletes took up the challenge, producing some fine individual and team performances. Team of the day was […]
