Philadelphia One Mile

Sarnia Walking Club

Philadelphia Cup Team Race

1 mile handicap 

Les Amarreurs, Guernsey

Double success for Olga

Olga Le Noury walked away from the field in the clubs annual Philadelphia Cup team handicap walk held in good conditions at Les Amarreurs. Winning the handicap race by twenty three seconds she moved close to her personal best set in this event three years ago with an actual time of 10.05. Second and third places went to Wendy Wilson and Kevin Allan who set off together and only separated by a second at the finish. Both walkers setting new best times. Further down the field in eighth place was Donna Allan and another to set a new personal best time.

Fastest time of the day was Rob Elliott with 8.50.

Winners of the Philadelphia Cup were Olga Le Noury who added team success to her individual win, Donna Allan and Kevin Le Noury whose combined watch times were the quickest.

1 Olga Le Noury W35 11.00 (watch time) / 0.55 (handicap) / 10.05 (actual time)

2 Wendy Wilson W50 11.23 / 0.45 / 10.38

3 Kevin Allan M40 11.24 / 0.45 / 10.39

4 Kay Coulson W50 11.25 / 0.30 / 10.55

5= Jayne Le Noury W55 11.26 / 0.10 / 11.16

5= Kevin Le Noury M60 11.26 / 1.20 /10.06

7 Peter Beckerleg M55 11.27 / 1.10 / 10.17

8 Donna Allan W40 11.33 / 2.35 / 8.58

9 Phil Lockwood M45 11.49 / 2.20 / 9.29

10 Dave Dorey M70 11.54 / 0.00 / 11.54

11 Rob Elliott M55 12.00 / 3.10 / 8.50

12 Mick Le Sauvage M75 12.03 / 0.35 / 11.28

Team result

1 Team B: O Le Noury, D Allan, K Le Noury 33.59

2 Team D: W Wilson, K Coulson, P Lockwood 34.37

3 Team C: J Le Noury, P Beckerleg, D Dorey 34.47

4 Team A: K Allan, R Elliott, M Le Sauvage 35.27

One mile track handicap

Sunday January 28th 2018

Sarnia Walking Club

Bob Wright Handicap Series Race 6

1 mile track walk

Osmond Priaulx, FootesLane, Guernsey

Another win for Kevin Allan

Kevin Allan secured his second win in the Bob Wright Handicap Series to move clear at the top of the leaderboard with one race to go.

Set off 15 seconds after the scratch walkers Jayne Le Noury and Dave Dorey, he soon bridged the gap and moved ahead, before holding on by a second at the finish line from a fast finishing Phil Lockwood.

Jayne Le Noury in third place holding off Rob Elliott by the same gap of one second. In fifth place the fastest woman on actual time was Donna Allan who improved her best time on the track by around half a minute and in doing so reduced her Guernsey age best time to 9.07. Stuart Le Noury recorded the fastest time of the day with his 7.27.

With one race to go over 5 miles next month and noting the possible discarded races to date in this 5 from 7 to score series, we have Kevin Allan clear by 3 points. Behind him there are nine walkers separated by five points, with everything to walk for in the final event.

1 Kevin Allan M40 11.14 (watch time) / 0.15 (handicap) / 10.59 (actual time)

2 Phil Lockwood M45 11.15 / 2.00 / 9.15

3 Jayne Le Noury W55 11.26 / 0.00 / 11.26

4 Rob Elliott M55 11.27 / 2.55 / 8.32

5 Donna Allan W40 11.37 / 2.30 / 9.07

6 Stuart Le Noury M 11.42 / 4.15 / 7.27

7 Kay Coulson W50 11.42 / 0.30 / 11.12

8 Dave Dorey M70 11.45 / 0.00 / 11.45

9 Olga Le Noury W35 11.52 / 1.00 / 10.52

10 Peter Beckerleg M55 11.55 / 1.30 / 10.25

11 Kevin Le Noury M60 11.56 / 1.30 / 10.26 

Rob Elliott for SWC

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one mile track

Sunday September 17th 2017

Sarnia Walking Club

1 mile track walk

Osmond Priaulx, Guernsey

Personal best for leading woman

After an absence of several months due to illness, Guernseys leading woman walker Donna Allan again toed the line in the Sarnia Walking Clubs one mile track walk. A cautious start saw her pass the halfway mark in 5.04 before increasing her pace to cross the line in 9.38 for a new personal best time by almost half a minute. 

Expected winner Stuart Le Noury walked a 7.27 mile, well ahead of Rob Elliott in 9.03. Third place went to Donna Allan whose second half time was only a second down on Elliotts.

A close race for 4th was won by Kevin Le Noury from Peter Beckerleg.

Second woman home was Olga Le Noury in 10.49, followed by Mick Le Sauvage and third woman Kay Coulson.

Jayne Le Noury walked her usual consistent race finishing in 11.50 ahead of Dave Dorey.

The next walk is the first race in the Bob Wright Handicap Series. It is over a distance of 5 kilometres at Saumarez Park at 9.00 am on Sunday October 1st .All ages are welcome to come and have a go at race walking in the 7 race series that finishes early next year.

This first event is held in conjunction with the Guernsey Sports Commissions “Older Peoples Week” aiming to get the over 65s into sports in general. They and all other ages will be welcomed.

Details from Jayne Le Noury lenouryjedburgh@cwgsy.net 

1 Stuart Le Noury M 7.27

2 Rob Elliott M55 9.03

3 Donna Allan W40 9.38

4 Kevin Le Noury M55 10.14

5 Peter Beckerleg M55 10.16

6 Olga Le Noury W35 10.49

7 Mick Le Sauvage M75 11.06

8 Kay Coulson W45 11.12

9 Jayne Le Noury W55 11.50

10 Dave Dorey M70 12.10

Championship 1 mile

Sunday August 20th 2017

Sarnia Walking Club

Heritage Group Championships Race 10

1 mile track

Osmond Priaulx, Footes Lane, Guernsey

Heritage Group Championship wins for Le Nourys

Stuart Le Noury claimed the Heritage Group mens championship finishing off the 10 race series with a win over one mile with a time of 7.29. Second on the day and second overall in the championship was Rob Elliott in just under 9 minutes.

Winner of the womens race was Olga Le Noury from Jayne Le Noury. Jayne secured the womens championship with a two point advantage over Kay Coulson.

The combined Heritage championship for the Jubilee Tankard which is a handicapped championship was won by Mick Le Sauvage with a five points lead over Peter Beckerleg with Kevin Le Noury half a point behind that in third.

Coming up soon is the longest walk in the clubs calendar over 19.4 miles. It is the annual Church to Church walk being held on Sunday September 3rd at 9.00  am. All are welcome to come and have a walk between the islands Parish churches starting and finishing at Havelet bay, St Peter Port.. The walk has a generous time limit of 5 hours 30 minutes. Details from Jayne Le Noury lenouryjedburgh@cwgsy.net or can be found at https://churchtochurch.wordpress.com/.

A small field is expected with two recent past winners from England due to toe the line. There could be a new name on the winners trophies for the first locals home with last years winners Stuart and Olga Le Noury both off the island at the time.

A few days before this event the club are holding a 3 kilometres walk at Les Amarreurs at 6.30 pm on Friday September 1st. All welcome to walk.

Men

1 Stuart Le Noury M 7.29

2 Rob Elliott M55 8.58

3 Peter Beckerleg M55 10.21

4 Kevin Le Noury M55 10.32

5 Mick Le Sauvage M75 10.51

6 Dave Dorey M70 11.24

Women 

1 Olga Le Noury W35 10.25

2 Kay Coulson W45 11.37

3 Jayne Le Noury W55 12.15

Handicap

1 D Dorey (0.00) 11.24, 2 S Le Noury (4.20) 11.49, 3= P Beckerleg (1.30) 11.51 and M Le Sauvage (1.00) 11.51, 5 O Le Noury (1.30) 11.55, 6 R Elliott (3.00) 11.58, 7 K Le Noury (1.35) 12.07, 8 J Le Noury (0.00) 12.15, 9 K Coulson (1.00) 12.37.

Heritage Group Mens Championship

1 Stuart Le Noury 100 points, 2 Rob Elliott 90, 3 Phil Lockwood 71, 4 Kevin Le Noury 69, 5 Peter Beckerleg 63, Mick Le Sauvage 59, Dave Dorey 43.

Heritage Group Womens Championship

1 Jayne Le Noury 71, 2 Kay Coulson 69, 3 Olga Le Noury 42, 4 Donna Allan 15.

Heritage Group Jubilee Tankard Handicap

1 Mick Le Sauvage 79.5, 2 Peter Beckerleg 74.5, 3 Kevin Le Noury 74, 4 Stuart Le Noury 66, 5 Rob Elliott 63, 5 Dave Dorey 60, 7 Jayne Le Noury 46, 8 Phil Lockwood 41, 9 Kay Coulson 40, 10 Olga Le Noury 31, 11 Donna Allan 6.

Heritage Group Junior Boys Championship

1 Ellis Lockwood 15

 

Philadelphia one mile handicap

Sunday March 5th 2017

Sarnia Walking Club

Philadelphia Team Trophy

1 mile handicap road walk

Les Amarreurs, Vale, Guernsey

RWA Permit 7004-1

Double for Kay Coulson

Almost always putting in a quick performance in these team races, Kay Coulson secured double success as she led the field home in the one mile handicapped walk at Les Amarreurs finishing with an actual time of 10.50. In very windy conditions the long straight road from near Donkey Divers to the sea at Les Amarreurs  was full head on wind before turning along the coast to be faced with side on wind before the relative calm around Vale Church.

In the team event for the Philadelphia Trophy she was joined by 4th placed Jayne Le Noury and 7th placed Dave Dorey for a combined total watch time of 34.52. But it was close. The second team of Kevin Le Noury, Olga Le Noury and Peter Beckerleg only three seconds behind.

1 Kay Coulson W45 11.20 (watch time) / 0.30 (handicap) / 10.50 (actual time)

2 Kevin Le Noury M55 11.31 / 1.15 / 10.16

3 Olga Le Noury W35 11.36 / 1.15 / 10.21

4 Jayne Le Noury W55 11.38 / 0.00 / 11.38

5 Mick Le Sauvage M75 11.42 / 0.45 / 10.57

6 Peter Beckerleg M55 11.48 / 1.15 / 10.33

7 Dave Dorey M70 11.54 / 0.00 / 11.54

8 Rob Elliott M55 12.05 / 3.05 / 9.00

9 Donna Allan 12.31 / 2.25 / 10.06

Team positions (total watch times)

1st K Coulson, J Le Noury, D Dorey 34.52

2nd K Le Noury, O Le Noury, P Beckerleg 34.55

3rd M Le Sauvage, R Elliott, D Allan 36.18

One Mile track handicap

Sunday January 29th 2017

Sarnia Walking Club

Bob Wright Handicap Series Race Six

1 mile track

Osmond Priaulx, Footes Lane, Guernsey

Beckerleg strengthens challenge for Bob Wright Series win

Second place Peter Beckerleg strengthened his challenge for the overall win in the Bob Wright Handicap Series with one race to go. He was beaten on the day only by Stuart Le Noury who walked from starting last to crossing the line first with an actual time of 7.28.

Third place went to Kay Coulson a few seconds down on second place.

After two race discards are taken into consideration in the seven race series Beckerleg and Donna Allan are favourites with Stuart Le Noury and Rob Elliott also in with a shout should they finish the last race well up the field.

The last event is a 5 mile race from Lancresse to White Rock in February. 

Winner Stuart Le Noury won the inaugural Richmond Trophy for 2016 based on the years performances in all local races, presented at the recent club dinner and presentation.

1 Stuart Le Noury M 11.13 (watch time) / 3.45 (handicap) / 7.28 (actual time)

2 Peter Beckerleg M 55 11.18 / 1.00 / 10.18

3 Kay Coulson W45 11.21 / 0.15 / 11.06

4 Mick Le Sauvage M75 11.32 / 0.30 / 11.02

5 Rob Elliott M55 11.34 / 2.45 / 8.49

6 Kevin Le Noury M55 11.35 / 1.15 / 10.20

7 Phil Lockwood M40 11.48 / 2.15 / 9.33

8 Jayne Le Noury W55 12.07 / 0.00 / 12.07

9 Dave Dorey M70 12.27 / 0.00 / 12.27

1 mile track

Sunday September 18th 2016

Sarnia Walking Club

1 mile track walk

Osmond Priaulx Playing Fields, Guernsey

Close race for the women

 

Whilst Stuart Le Noury was enjoying an easy win over one mile, the leading women were involved in a close race as newcomer Donna Allan, who competed in her first race only weeks ago in the Church to Church walk, got the better of Marie Macdonald by one second.

In the process Marie improved on her best time and lost out on the Guernsey age best time to Donna. In third place and close to her best was Kay Coulson. Young Ellis Lockwood walked a good race at the back of the field in 11.39.

The next race is on Sunday October 2nd at Saumarez Park at 9.00 am . It is the first race in the Bob Wright Handicap Series over a distance of 5 kilometres. The series consists of races between 1 mile and 10 kilometres on a handicap start basis, giving all a chance to cross the line first . Newcomers are welcome. There are seven races in the series between October and February with five to score for the final points table. Details from Jayne Le Noury lenouryjedburgh@cwgsy.net.

 

Pos	Athlete		Club	Time
1	Stuart Le Noury	M	Sarnia Walking Club	7.46
2	Jason Le Noury	M	Sarnia Walking Club	9.47
3	Phil Lockwood	M40	Sarnia Walking Club	9.49
4	Kevin Le Noury	M55	Sarnia Walking Club	10.15
5	Donna Allan	W40	Unattached	10.21
6	Marie Macdonald	W40	Sarnia Walking Club	10.22
7	Peter Beckerleg	M55	Sarnia Walking Club	10.29
8	Kay Coulson	W45	Sarnia Walking Club	10.46
9	Mick Le Sauvage	M75	Sarnia Walking Club	11.08
10	Dave Dorey	M65	Sarnia Walking Club	11.16
11	Jayne Le Noury	W55	Sarnia Walking Club	11.31
12	Ellis Lockwood	U13	Unattached	11.39

 

Rob Elliott for SWC

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1 mile track walk

Sunday August 14th 2016

Sarnia Walking Club

Heritage Group Championships

1 mile track walk

Osmond Priaulx, Footes Lane, Guernsey

Newly weds are crowned as Champions

Newly weds Stuart Le Noury and Olga Sinkevica, the Sarnia Walking Club Heritage Group Champions for 2016 missed the final race over one mile as they were on honeymoon, letting in brother Jason and Marie Macdonald to take the respective victories in the final walk of the series.

Stuart Le Noury again wins the Sportsman Trophy as Champion with 2nd placed Phil Lockwood taking the Grace Mansfield Endeavour Trophy.

Olga Sinkevica wins the Carol Bates Memorial Championship Trophy retaining her title from 2015.

Junior Under 17 walker Alex Sinkevics wins the Junior Championship for the year.

Jason Le Noury walked away from the field to win easily in 7.31 from Phil Lockwood, whilst Marie Macdonald in 10.27 raced to a new Guernsey womens age best time, ahead of Jayne Le Noury.

Jayne Le Noury won the Jubilee Tankard for the handicapped section held in conjunction with the Championships with 89.5 points, ahead of Kay Coulson with 80 points and the first man Mick Le Sauvage.

The next race is on Sunday August 21st at 9.30 am for a 3 miles road walk on the Rocquaine Bay Circuit, starting at the Imperial Hotel and finishing at the Rocquaine coast road car lay-by.

Only a few weeks after that is the annual Church to Church road walk over 19.4 miles on September 4th starting at 9.00am. It is hoped for a close walk between the womens Church Champion Marie Macdonald and 2016 Club Champion Olga Sinkevica, now Le Noury.

Stuart Le Noury the reigning mens Champion can expect the close attention of visitors Jim Ball, himself a past winner and newcomer to the event Sam Fletcher from the Isle of Man. Added to the mix could be Jason Le Noury who has raced sparingly this year.

The event is not only about winners but is open to all standards of walkers with a generous time limit of 5 hours 30 minutes. Details from Jayne Le Noury lenouryjedburgh@cwgsy.net

 

Pos	Athlete		Club	Time
1	Jason Le Noury	M	Sarnia Walking Club	7.31
2	Phil Lockwood	M40	Sarnia Walking Club	9.45
3	Kevin Le Noury	M55	Sarnia Walking Club	10.10
4	Marie Macdonald	W40	Sarnia Walking Club	10.27
5	Peter Beckerleg	M55	Sarnia Walking Club	10.37
6	Mick Le Sauvage	M75	Sarnia Walking Club	10.50
7	Jayne Le Noury	W55	Sarnia Walking Club	11.23
8	Dave Dorey	M65	Sarnia Walking Club	11.39
9	Ellis Lockwood	U13	Unattached	12.03

Mens and Womens Championship positions for the Sportsmans Trophy, Grace Mansfield Endeavour Trophy and the Carol Bates Memorial Championship Trophy

Stuart Le Noury	15	15	0	15	15	10	15	12	15	0	112	0	0	112
Phil Lockwood	9	10	12	0	9	12	12	9	12	12	97	0	9	88
Kevin Le Noury	0	9	10	12	8	0	10	8	10	10	77	0	0	77
Rob Elliott	12	12	15	0	10	15	0	10	0	0	74	0	0	74
Mick Le Sauvage	7	8	9	10	6	9	8	6	8	8	79	6	6	67
Peter Beckerleg	8	7	8	0	7	8	9	7	9	9	72	0	7	65
Jason Le Noury	10	0	0	0	12	0	0	15	0	15	52	0	0	52
Dave Dorey	6	0	7	0	5	7	7	0	0	7	39	0	0	39
Olga Sinkevica	15	15	0	15	15	15	15	15	15	0	120	0	0	120
Kay Coulson	12	9	12	0	9	12	12	12	12	0	90	0	0	90
Jayne Le Noury	10	10	15	10	10	0	10	10	10	12	97	0	10	87
Marie Mcdonald	0	12	0	12	12	0	0	0	0	15	51	0	0	51

 

Handicap positions: handicap plus watch time

1 Jason Le Noury (3.40) 11.11, 2 M Macdonald (o.55) 11.22, 3 Jayne Le Noury (0.00) 11.23, 4 K Le Noury (1.15) 11.25, 5 P Beckerleg (0.50) 11.27, 6 D Dorey (0.00) 11.39, 7 M Le Sauvage (0.50) 11.40, 8 P Lockwood (2.25) 12.10

Final points table

Jayne Le Noury	12	15	9	12	13.5	0	8	5	10	10	94.5	0	5	89.5
Kay Coulson	15	7	5	0	6	10	15	15	7	0	80	0	0	80
Mick Le Sauvage	6	12	10	8	3	12	10	7	12	6	86	3	6	77
Peter Beckerleg	7	6	8	0	10	7	12	9	15	8	82	0	6	76
Olga Sinkevica	9	10	0	15	8	9	6	10	6	0	73	0	0	73
Kevin Le Noury	0	8	12	9	5	0	7	8	8	9	66	0	0	66
Stuart Le Noury	10	5	0	7	7	5	4	4	9	0	51	0	0	51
Rob Elliott	8	4	15	0	4	8	0	6	0	0	45	0	0	45
Jason Le Noury	4	0	0	0	13.5	0	0	12	0	15	44.5	0	0	44.5
Dave Dorey	3	0	7	0	1	15	9	0	0	7	42	0	0	42
Marie Macdonald	0	9	0	10	9	0	0	0	0	12	40	0	0	40
Phil Lockwood	5	3	6	0	2	6	5	3	5	5	40	0	2	38

Philadelphia One mile

Sunday February 28th 2016

Sarnia Walking Club

Philadelphia Team Race

1 mile handicap road walk

Les Amarreurs, Guernsey

Lockwood and Coulson take team honours

Phil Lockwood and Kay Coulson made sure of team victory when they finished in second and third places in the annual handicapped one mile road walk.They secured a 16 seconds advantage when the watch times were added together over the second team combination of Kevin Le Noury and Olga Sinkevica.

Winner of the race was Rob Elliott, who started off with only Stuart Le Noury behind him and walked through the field to take the lead in the last few hundred yards. His 8.18 time only being bettered by his team mate Stuart Le Nourys 7.58.

The next race is the first in the Heritage Group Championships being held from March to August. The distance is 5 kilometres starting at Saumarez Park at 9.00 am on Sunday March 6th.

				Watch time	H’cap	Actual time
1	Rob Elliott	M55	Sarnia Walking Club	10.43	2.25	8.18
2	Phil Lockwood	M40	Sarnia Walking Club	10.52	2.20	8.32
3	Kay Coulson	W45	Sarnia Walking Club	11.00	0.00	11.00
4	Peter Beckerleg	M55	Sarnia Walking Club	11.03	0.45	10.18
5	Kevin Le Noury	M55	Sarnia Walking Club	11.04	1.05	9.59
6	Olga Sinkevica	W	Sarnia Walking Club	11.04	0.45	10.19
7	Mick Le Sauvage	M75	Sarnia Walking Club	11.11	0.45	10.26
8	Marie Macdonald	W40	Sarnia Walking Club	11.14	0.30	10.44
9	Stuart Le Noury	M	Sarnia Walking Club	11.38	3.40	7.58
10	John Dedman	M40	GIAAC	11.50	0.30	11.20
11	Dave Dorey	M65	Sarnia Walking Club	12.07	0.00	12.07
	Team Result		times added together
D	P Lockwood           K Coulson		21.52
B	K Le Noury            O Sinkevica		22.08
E	P Beckerleg           M Le Sauvage		22.14
A	R Elliott                  S Le Noury		22.21
C	M Macdonald          J Dedman		23.04

One mile track walk

Sunday January 31st 2016

Sarnia Walking Club

Bob Wright Handicap Series Race Six

1 mile track walk

Osmond Priaulx, Guernsey

Jayne Le Noury wins penultimate race in series

With one race to go in the series, the first two home, Jayne Le Noury and Kay Coulson pushed themselves well into contention to take the title in the last race. Off together in the handicapped mile event, Jayne Le Noury soon opened up a gap and with her best walk for some time came home in 11.05, seven seconds ahead of Kay.

A fast finishing Jason Le Noury took third place with an actual time of 7.25, recording the fastest time of the day ahead of brother Stuarts 7.38.

The last race takes place on Sunday February 14th over a distance of 5 miles, starting at Lancresse and finishing at North Beach. Start time is 9.30 am. Details from Jayne Le Noury, lenouryjedburgh@cwgsy.net

The club held a minutes silence in memory of past walker Rob Waterman who passed away recently at the age of 76. Rob was the record holder of the one mile walk back in 1970 with his 6.52 road mile. He was a member of the club in its early days and represented Guernsey in the 1974 Commonwealth Games in New Zealand in the 20 miles walk. He won the Church to Church walk in 1970 and was coach to the walkers in the Commonwealth Games held that year.

Rob Waterman featured in club champion profiles and is reproduced below.

1 Jayne Le Noury W55 11.05 (watch time) 11.05 (actual time)

2 Kay Coulson W45 11.12 / 11.12

3 Jason Le Noury M 11.20 / 7.25

4 Phil Lockwood M40 11.31 / 8.41

5 Peter Beckerleg M55 11.36 / 10.21

6 Rob Elliott M55 11.37 / 8.37

7 Dave Dorey M65 11.38 / 11.08

8 Mick Le Sauvage M75 11.44 / 10.29

9 Stuart Le Noury M 11.48 / 7.38

10 Olga Sinkevica W 12.02 / 10.32

11 Kevin Le Noury M55 12.02 / 10.22

Rob Waterman, five times the Club Champion, was one of the first members of the Sarnia Walking Club. He started walking in the mid 60`s taking in the Church walk as well as racing in the GIAAC walks in 1964, improving steadily and helping the SWC to their team win in the “Garnet” 10 miles in 1967.

From 1968 to 1971 Rob was the Guernsey Sarnia Walking Club Champion, as well as winning the Eric Waldron Trophy 3 times, the 7 mile Chilcott Cup in under 54 minutes, the Val Des Terres Hill Climb, the North Regatta walk and a West Show 20 miles.

In 1969 he walked in the 6 mile Chippenham event, and scored the 2nd of his 4 wins in the 5 miles Sark walk. Sark being a car free island a short boat trip from Guernsey.

In 1970 he failed to gain selection for the 20 miles Commonwealth Games walk but went as coach to the 3 selected walkers and on his return scored his only victory in the Church Walk beating Dave Dorey by 4 and a half minutes in 2 hours 52 minutes 53 seconds. Photos left finishing in 1970 Church to Church and right at Longfrie in 1971 Church to Church.

 

In 1971 with junior walkers coming through Rob organized regular training sessions for the youngsters as well as helping out future walkers such as Rob Elliott.

During 1973 Rob won the 50 kms walk in just outside 5 hours and had a win in the West Show 20 miles followed by 3rd behind visitors Dave Rosser and Guernsey’s John Moullin in the Church to Church walk in a personal best of 2.51.27 which was good enough for him to gain selection for the 1974 New Zealand Commonwealth Games, backing up his races earlier in the year including winning the bronze medal in the Hampshire 10 miles walk.

Almost finishing his preparations for Christchurch in the early months of 74 Rob walked under 46 minutes in the popular 6 miles Chippenham walk in the October of 73.

Rob walked to an 11th place in the 20 miles walk at the Games recording a time of 3 hours 00 mins 14 secs, slower than his best but a fine walk in the heat of New Zealand.

On return his domination of island walks was coming to an end with the emergence of Mick Elliott who was improving by every race up to 10 miles in distance and young Andy Le Heron.  Rob lost out on the championship to Elliott, and in his last Church walk finished 3rd.

One of his final races was in the Chippenham to Calne 6 miles where the SWC were victorious where he finished in 8th position, one behind Elliott in 47 minutes. Rob retired soon afterwards from the walking scene leaving behind him impressive times including:

1 mile 6.52

3 kms 13.42

5 kms 23.05

7 miles in 53.42

10 miles 77.34

20 kms 103.54

20 miles 2.52.48

50 kms 5.00.40.

The 6 miles Milestones Walk was introduced by Waterman and is known as the Rob Waterman Trophy, whist the long established Hill Climb Shield, still competed for today was made by Rob.