Authored by Sarah Harris Another year and another Ealing Half Marathon (EHM) that didn’t disappoint. Ideal running conditions set the scene for 40 ESM members to join over 3,500 runners at the start line for the twelfth edition of the club’s local half marathon. As usual, the closed-road event was exceptionally well-organised and well-supported along most of the […]
Ealing Southall and Middlesex’s U15 athlete, Leila Newth, concluded a wonderful July 2024 with three gold medals at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. The first saw her take top spot in the English Schools U15 long jump for Middlesex in a thrilling competition where she equalled her personal best of 5.58m. A fortnight later, Leila […]
Competing at the England Athletics Indoor Championships in Sheffield (10-11 Feb 2024), ESM athlete Leila Newth equalled the under-15 girls all time UK indoor triple jump record. Her third jump of 11m48cm matched Amy Williams’ previous best ever jump to claim gold.The Championship best leap puts Leila in the UK top 9 ever U15 triple […]
Race report written by Sarah Harris Earlier this year, Mariona and Sarah G hatched a plan to run the San Sebastián marathon. Fast forward to a few months later, and this had snowballed into a team event with around 20 ESMers plus supporters travelling to the Basque coastal city to participate in the 42k, 21K […]
Article written by Allan McSween and Pat Cornell Ealing, Southall and Middlesex sprinter Allan McSween won gold in the 100m and 200m and bronze in the mixed 4x100m relay at the Invictus Games held in Dusseldorf in September 2023. His wins in the 100 and 200 were quite comfortable after very easy wins in the heats […]
Long time club stalwart Dave Terry has died at the age of 88. He was well known as a multi-eventer and later as an athletics statistician. His funeral is on Friday the 3rd of November at Breakspear Crematorium at 1:45 pm.
Written by Sarah Harris On Sunday, 24th September, 44 ESM members lined up among 3,039 runners for the eleventh Ealing Half Marathon. There was the usual nervous energy and excitement amidst the green and gold camaraderie. Race conditions were near perfect, and this fantastic local event was as well organised as ever by the Ealing […]
Report written by Graham French. Photos provided by Pete Flewitt and Debra Booker ESM’s young athletes were out in good numbers for the first fixture of the cross country season. Conditions were good, the sun shone, & we recorded 2 individual & 2 team wins. The overall results made for a good start to the […]
Mohamed Hashi smashed his own PB and broke the club record yesterday in Northern Ireland at the Antrim Coast Half Marathon. Running in the Elite event at what is known as one of the fastest half marathons in the world, Mo came in 30th with a chip time of 1:07:01. This is a PB of […]
Written by Lynn Wilson We are sad to report that Cathy Bow sadly passed away on 27th July 2023. Cathy was a stalwart of our women’s team and played a major role in the pioneering vanguard of Ealing & Southall AC women’s section over the country and road during the 1980’s and into the 90’s […]