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RESULTS OF 1st DERBY AND DISTRICT SCHOOLS TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT
Held on Saturday 6th October at the Mackworth Sports Centre
Trophies and medals sponsored by Oberoi Brothers of Mackworth
were presented to:
Under 11 Boys
Winner Andrew Brown Beeston Rylands Junior School
Runner up Joshua White St Mary’s School
Under 13 Boys
Winner Dean Parkes Derby Moor Community School
Runner up Daniel Palmer Springwell Comprehensive
Under 16 Boys Winner
David Arrowsmith Long Eaton Community School
Runner up Sam Perry Chesterfield School
Under 19 Boys Winner
David Arrowsmith Long Eaton Community School
Runner up Sam Perry Chesterfield School
Under 11 Girls Winner
Jade Lawman Brimington Junior School
Runner up Joanne Hiley Ancaster Junior School
Under 13 Girls Winner
Emily O’Sullivan Littleover School
Runner up Kathryn Arrowsmith Long Eaton Community School
Under 16 girls Winner
Emily O’Sullivan Littleover School
Runner up Kirsty Owen Heritage Comprehensive
Under 19 Girls Winner
Gemma Hockney Chesterfield College
Runner up Cheryl Butcher Lees Brook School
67 boys and girls took part and the Association was pleased that the increase in
the number of girls taking part last season was maintained for this.
Adam Frost, who won a number of the events at Under 16 last season has moved up onto the national tournament circuit and his place at the Derby Schools has been taken by David Arrowsmith from Shardlow. He beat Sam Perry from Chesterfield at Under 16 and 19 in 2 very close matches. Adam was at the Blackpool Junior tournament at the weekend and both will be playing in the East Midlands Junior 4* at Grantham on 27th/28th October.
The next Derby Schools will be on the 11th November and the organiser will be John Cowell on 01332 515132.
The Derby Association has been awarded a grant of £50 by the Midlands Co-operative Community Fund. This will be used to continue the coaching programme started in the Inner City last season.
Mike Payne
ANOTHER GOOD RESULT FOR GARETH HERBERT AT US OPEN
20 years old Gareth Herbert (Slough, Berkshire), the on form England no.2
who trains at Nottingham, beat another world top 100 player at the US Open
International Pro Tour Event being played at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
After easily winning his men's singles group, Herbert had a straight games
first round win, 21-14, 21-17, 21-19 over the world no.89, Eric Varim
(France). This result will help Herbert, who has moved up from 147 to
133 in the latest world rankings, to get ever nearer the top 100 himself.
However, Herbert was unfortunate not to take a game from the Korean no.2
and world no.23, Oh Sang Eun in the second round, before going down 10-21,
18-21, 21-23.
Herbert and Terry Young (Maidenhead, Berkshire) put in a fine performance
in the men's doubles. After beating the American pair Eric Owens and
David Zhuang 19-21, 21-17, 21-13, they did well to take Lucjan Blaszczyk
(Poland) and Kalinikos Kreanga (Greece), both in the world top 20, to a
deciding game before succumbing 17-21, 21-19, 12-21. In the next round
Blaszczyk and Kreanga put out the top seeds from Austria, Karl Jindrak and
Werner Schlager 21-13, 23-21.
England Veterans' European Medal Tally
Veteran players from England have returned from the European Veterans
Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, with a haul of medals.
The UK with 140
participants picked up 6 gold medals, 6 silvers and 23 bronze medals,
coming second overall to Germany.
Margaret Dignum (Worcs) beat Pauline Steel (Sussex) to win the over 60s
women's singles, while Pam Butcher (Kent) took 2 golds, winning both the
over 70s singles and the women's doubles (with a Swedish partner).
Edna
Fletcher (Norfolk) lifted the over 75s singles.
Canada living Sonia Flynn
shared an over 75s women's doubles victory.
Les D'arcy (Lancs) won the over
80s men's singles with his defeat of Ron Etheridge (Kent).
Jan Dunning (Worcs) won 2 bronze medals: in the over 40s singles and in the
over 40s doubles with Helen Shields (Yorks).
The Lancashire pairing of
John Hilton and Phil Bowen were bronze medallists in the men's over 40s
doubles.
£23 INVESTMENT FOR THE ENGLISH INSTITUTE OF SPORT
SPORT ENGLAND have announced an award of up to £23,540,000 for the English Institute of Sport Sheffield project. This multi-sport facility, adjacent to the Don Valley Stadium, will provide a regional base for the delivery of services to athletes within the English Institute of Sport (EIS) and a world class training facility.
Announcing the award, Trevor Brooking, Chairman of Sport England said: “Sheffield has always been identified as a vital site within the English Institute of Sport network and I am delighted that our partnership with Phoenix Sports Ltd and the national governing bodies will result in world class training facilities for such a wide range of sports. This is a massive project for the region and will complement the £12.9 million Sheffield Ice Centre that is on schedule to open on the adjacent site in autumn 2002.”
The new project represents the highest single investment in the national network of EIS facilities and will enable athletes living and training in the region to access elite sports facilities on their doorstep.
The facility will include:
- a National Indoor Athletics Centre with capacity for 1,500–2,000 seats for events
- a national table tennis centre
- a regional judo facility
- a national netball centre
- a badminton performance centre
- a large conditioning area and state of the art sports science and sports medicine facilities.
Although an original award was made to Phoenix Sports Ltd in July 2000 (the development company for the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield), the Sport England Lottery Panel and English Sports Council agreed to increase their support mainly to accommodate the additional sport of badminton. All the grant conditions have now been achieved and work will begin on site later this year.
THE ENGLISH Institute of Sport is a network of sports facilities and services that forms part of the UK Sports Institute. It is designed to provide World Class athletes with the best high-performance training environment in the world. Athletes in every region will have access to a range of support services from physiotherapy to biomechanics, sports nutrition to strength and conditioning coaching
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