The Virgin Money Giving Mini London Marathon took place on Sunday alongside the main marathon and saw 1056 young runners, aged 11-16, complete the last 2.6km of the marathon course.  Young runners from Hounslow took part in the race to run the iconic last stretch of the main marathon along The Mall, each receiving a marathon medal and finishers t-shirt.

Hounslow was represented by 18 young runners with some outstanding results. The top performance of the day came from Rory Forbes (Kew House) in the Under 17 boy’s race, who ran an impressive time of 08:02 and finished 7th in the age group and 9th overall.

The young runners all train at sites operated by Lampton Leisure, who manage leisure facilities in the borough.  The team at Lampton Leisure worked with local schools and clubs to select the runners for this years’ entrance, as well as manage the teams on the day. Selected runners were given the chance to train at Osterley Sports and Athletics Centre with Dave Daniels, former coach of Hounslow London Mini Marathon winner Mo Farah.

Next year event is scheduled for Sunday 2 October 2022, anyone interested in taking part should contact Jonathan.Barbour@lampton360.co.uk from the Lampton sports development team, who can give you further details about the event. 

The London Youth Games Cross country event will be taking place on Saturday 20 November 2021, trials and training for this event will be announced in due course.

Jonathan Barbour from the Lampton Sports Development Team, said: “We’d like to pass on a huge thank you to all of the runners who represented the Borough of Hounslow and their family and friends who supported them both in the run up to the event and on the day. It was great to get a team out today considering the sort time we had to get it sorted. Massive thank you to all the local schools who help by advertising the event and putting their runners forward for consideration for the team.”

 The full results for young Hounslow runners were:

U15 Girls

Name

Position

Time

Chole Trew

118

11:33

Katerina Simakova

68

10:30

Isobel Grimes

123

11:38

Anna Kelly

51

10:14

 

U17 Girls

Name

Position

Time

Francesca Newbold

107

11:49

Lydia Loughran

61

10:40

Freya Fredriksson

75

10:56

 

 U13 Boys

Name

Position

Time

Isacc Shaw

108

11:18

Michael Garica

71

10:24

 

U15 Boys

Name

Position

Time

Reggie Rock

47

09:14

Jonah Shaw

105

10:15

Taj Sandhu

134

12:37

Louis Moore

63

09:26

 

U17 Boys

Name

Position

Time

Mateusz Loughran

124

12:14

Matthew Knight

40

08:45

Daljodh Sandhu

77

09:19

Rory Forbes

7

08:02

Borys Malaczer

111

10:19

 

To find out more about youth running clubs in Hounslow please contact Jonathan.Barbour@lampton360.co.uk