Oxfordshire Grand Prix Series 2007 ~ Final Round Update
Last updated: Monday, 3 December, 2007Witney’s men chalked up their fourth and most vital victory of the season at Eynsham last week to secure the Road Race Grand Prix team championship for the second year in succession. Going into the race with only a 3 point advantage over Woodstock, they needed to win to be sure of the Grand Prix trophy. Fittingly, club chairman Tony Lock took the individual men’s honours, having only missed one race all season. Woodstock, led by James Bolton kept up the fight all season in the closest series in the competition’s history, with Headington also featuring as possible winners until the last few races.
In the women’s section Headington won the team championship, as they have in all 6 previous years of the Grand Prix’s history, but Sally Pitts rounded off Witney’s day by taking the individual title. Alchester took second place, with Helen Roper, who ran every race in the series, just being pipped for second individual by Sophie Dawson–Kohary of Kidlington. Witney took third team.
At last Friday’s Road Race AGM it was agreed that there ought to be trophies for the second and third teams and that we should have a trophy for the best smaller club, the size being based on the number of runners who competed for them in the Grand Prix. A preliminary look at the listings suggests that Witney, Woodstock, Headington, Abingdon and Alcester have significantly more road race participants and that the other clubs could fairly be regarded as ‘smaller’ in road race terms.
Full results spreadsheets are in the files section of the Oxfordshire distance Yahoo group page ».
POS Team Eynsham 10k Total Best 11 of 13 1 Witney RR 512 (25) 282 248 2 Woodstock Harriers 470 (20) 275 240 3 Headington Road Runners 437 (19) 265 233 4 Alchester 316 (16) 236 204 5 Abingdon Amblers 437 (19) 234 204 6 Oxford City AC 511 (22) 227 203 7 Banbury Harriers 370 (17) 205 180 8 White Horse Harriers 189 (13) 196 173 9 Cherwell 289 (14) 194 171 10 Kidlington 300 (15) 185 161 11 Eynsham 0 (10) 168 148 12 Thame Road Runners 28 (11) 159 140 13 Hook Norton Harriers 76 (12) 159 138
POS Team Eynsham 10k Total Best 11 of 13 1 Headington Road Runners 163 (19) 293 258 2 Alchester 179 (20) 274 239 3 Witney RR 186 (22) 265 234 4 Abingdon Amblers 189 (25) 263 230 5 Woodstock Harriers 136 (17) 223 192 6 Banbury Harriers 154 (18) 210 186 7 White Horse Harriers 55 (15) 201 178 8 Kidlington 121 (16) 205 177 9 Eynsham 51 (14) 194 170 10 Hook Norton Harriers 28 (12) 183 159 11 Oxford City AC 0 (11) 181 159 12 Cherwell 38 (13) 180 156 13 Thame Road Runners 0 (11) 174 153
POS NAME CLUB Eynsham 10k Grand Total Races 1 PITTS, Sally Witney Road Runners 47 487 10 2 Dawson–Kohary, Sophie Kidlington RR 69 447 8 3 ROPER, Helen Alchester RC 57 438 13 4 GOTTWALD, Lizzie Abingdon Amblers 65 395 7 5 WILSON, Patricia Abingdon Amblers 59 378 10 5 GIBSON, Jill Woodstock Harriers 63 378 9 7 COLCLOUGH, Edwina Alchester RC 56 373 11 8 CRAFT, Jude Headington Road Runners 0 349 6 9 BANKS, Angela Alchester RC 66 330 8 10 JAMES, Anita Headington Road Runners 0 310 8 11 Bamber, Kirsty Witney 49 302 6 12 WATKINSON, Kate Alchester RC 50 298 10 13 FISCHER, Marie–Anne Headington RR 0 286 7 14 Rayner, Gloria Witney Road Runners 62 269 5 15 MIELL–INGRAM, Wendy Abingdon Amblers 28 256 7 16 GOMM, Nicola Witney Road Runners 0 245 4 17 HOPKINS, Adrienne Headington Road Runners 0 244 7 18 MATTHEWS, Sarah Abingdon Amblers 60 235 6 19 ELLIS, Bridgid Witney Road Runners 53 226 7 20 FINNIGAN, Andrea Kidlington R&AC 52 204 6 21 RHYMES, Natasha Witney RR 0 201 5 22 MACASKILL, Linda Headington Road Runners 34 198 8 23 WILLIAMSON, Kate Eynsham RR 51 197 4 24 Rees, Sam Hook Norton Harriers 0 192 4 25 WOLANSKI, Sandra Headington Road Runners 0 185 3
POS NAME CLUB Eynsham 10k Grand Total Races 1 LOCK, Tony Witney RR 130 1195 12 2 BOLTON, James Woodstock Harriers 121 1175 13 3 PRITCHARD, Simon Banbury Harriers AC 123 1114 12 4 BRIENS, Jean–Marc Witney RR 122 1040 12 5 STEWART, Jim Woodstock Harriers 108 931 13 6 ATYEO, John Witney RR 129 907 9 7 ADAMS, KIRK Woodstock Harriers 98 868 12 8 BURGESS, Jon Alchester RC 0 781 10 9 GOULD, Richard Alchester RC 0 777 9 10 LEE, Laurie Alchester RC 87 773 11 11 HARRIS, Gary Headington Road Runners 0 766 7 12 BODEN, Lazloe Witney RR 0 708 8 13 Hails, Phil Witney RR 131 693 6 14 O’CONNOR, Brian Woodstock Harriers 0 683 8 15 CHARD, Ken Witney RR 100 679 12 16 GAME, Kevin Woodstock Harriers 114 674 9 17 FERNANDEZ, Paul Abingdon Amblers 0 661 7 18 AINSLIE, Paul Witney RR 84 622 9 19 PRINCE, Chris Headington Road Runners 0 618 7 20 COOKE, JASON White Horse Harriers 0 588 6 21 Vaughan, Bryan Woodstock Harriers 0 571 6 22 GODWIN, Peter Headington Road Runners 0 560 7 23 TOWNSEND, Martin Woodstock Harriers 0 552 8 24 WIGMORE, James Abingdon Amblers 73 545 11 25 ZVEREV, Vasili Headington Road Runners 0 541 6
Will Atkinson
Oxon AA Road Race Secretary