FANS News

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  Ken Treadwell - Triathlon

Ken is a member of 7Oaks Tri Club and along with other members of the club achieved great success at the National Triathlon Sprint Championships held at Milton Keynes.

In the Men's 65-69 age group, Ken won beating the next athlete by 15 seconds.  Ken explained: "I came out of the water at the same time as the other competitor who eventually came second.  He passed me on the bike and had built up a lead of just over a minute by the start of the run, but I put my head down and ran hard.  With about 500 metres to go, I realised that I could catch him and with about 300 metres to go I passed him.  It was a great race, but I was more tired after this than other sprint races I have done.

Further to Ken's recent success at the National Sprint Championships, he has also competed as a member of the GB Team in the European Triathlon Olympic Distance Championship in Athlone, Ireland (Olympic distance of 1500m swim; 40k bike; 10k run). On a wet and gale-force windy day, Ken managed to come second in his age group and was really pleased with his silver medal.

To cap it all, Ken also competed in the British Triathlon Olympic Distance Triathlon Championship, held at Bedford, and managed to win his event; so he is now the current British Champion, in the 60-65 age group, for both the Sprint and Olympic Distance events – something he had only ever dreamed about achieving.

 

John Allen - Modern Pentathlon

John is a member of North Kent Modern Pentathlon Club. The modern pentathlon consists of five events - swimming, running, fencing, shooting and horse riding. He has been a swimmer with Gravesend and Northfleet Swimming Club since he was 9 years old and took up Pentathlon just over a year ago. John has recently been selected for the Pentathlon GB World Class Talent Programme.

This follows John's successes last year when he won the Latvian National Youth Tetrathlon (no riding) in Riga and came 4th in the British Youth Pentathlon Championships in his age group.
John has recently been selected for the GB Team to compete in an international competition against athletes from Germany, Latvia, Canada, Spain and Singapore.

25/03/10

 

 

Xander Alari-Williams - Swimmer

Xander trains in Sevenoaks and at the end of July at the nationals he won two bronze medals for the 100m and 200m breaststroke. In the semifinals of the 100m breaststroke he achieved a time of 1m04.70s which places him top on the national ranking.

Xander also competed at the UK school games in Wales and took the gold and a new championship record in the 100m breaststroke, the silver medal in the medley relay for East England and a bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke.

17-09-09

Mary Jenkins - Participant in British Transplant Games

Mary Jenkins won 3 gold medals in the 800m, 400m & 200m at the 2010 British Transplant Games in Bath. She also won a silver medal in the 3km walk and was awarded the overall cup for the best Female Super Veteran category. Mary was a recipient of two ground breaking transplants of Insulin cells into her liver in 2003/2004.

26-08-10

 

Dean Terry- Flatwater Kayaker

Dean competed in the Bochum International Regatta in Germany back in June and finished 1st in the 500metres and 1st in the 1000metres

Next Dean was off to Poznan, Poland for the Junior European Championships where he came 6th in both the 500 and the 1000metres where there was over 30 countries competing.

Next after two weeks hard training Dean was off to Moscow where he was to compete in the World Junior Championships against over sixty countries, a big task for the Lyminge teenager who does most of his training on his own, 8th in the World at 1000m and 11th in the 500m is a pretty good result. Now he is having a bit of a rest before he tries to get selected for the Kayak Marathon World Championships in August.

11-08-09

Peter Sizer - Parachuting

Peter, having been a member of the Fans scheme for the last couple of years, previously came second at the British Nationals, this year he went one better and won the Senior Accuracy Competition at the British Parachute Championships, which were held in Germany!

11-08-09

Gemma Collins - British Female Elite Mountain Bike Racer

Gemma began her early sporting career involved in athletics and kick boxing. In 2002, a fractured meta-tarsal led to a change of sport as she decided to take up mountain biking.

Her first mountain-bike race was a National Points Sport race at Catton Park Hall – in muddy conditions, requiring a lot of running. Gemma won this by nearly 20 minutes and has been hooked on mountain-bike racing ever since.

In 2006 she entered into Elite level racing with consistent top 10 finishes. In 2007 she achieved a top 5 British ranking (women) and participated in her first World Cup. In 2008 she progressed to 3rd placed British woman in National Points Races.

Gemma has recently decided to reduce her working hours to focus on her cycling career. Her future aim is to wear the GB kit and ride with pride!

Her commitment to the sport extends beyond the bike, she is an ambassador for Sustrans and supports their ‘Bike it’ and ‘Beauty and the Bike’ schemes which promote cycling to young people.

02-10-08

 

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