NEWS:: Tim Stones back on the road
NEWS:: Silver Medal for John Ruddy
NEWS:: James jumps to New PB
NEWS:: DUKA Awards Evening 2010
NEWS:: UKA World Indoor Trials
NEWS:: Kent XC Championships News
NEWS:: Tim becomes Licenced Athletics Official
NEWS:: German Invitational Event 2010
NEWS:: Flying Scot wins Bronze Medal
DUKA would like to congratulate Glasgow on being awarded the 2014 Commonwealth Games
It is on 17th April 2010 at the magnificient City of Stoke function room. 5 course meal will be served. You will get the opportunity to meet many of DUKA's top athletes.
There will be photos and film show from the 2009 Deaflympics in Taiwan.....
There will also be exhibition of History of British Deaf Athletics generally from the FIRST ever 'Silent Games' way back in Paris 1924!!! Many more activities planned.
Comedy show.... John Smith * John Smith * John Smith * Comedy show..
Please tell ALL your contacts. ONLY 150 PLACES AVAILABLE. FIRST COME FIRST SERVED.
Further details in the poster or email bobsblackwell@aol.com
Click on the links below to download the registration forms and poster
Registration form for Athletes & Their Guests.
Registration form for Volunteers
Registration form Support Staff
Awards Poster
Everyone who would like to attend must complete a booking form.
For further details contact
bobsblackwel@aol.com
Deaf UK Athletics (DUKA) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing training, competitions and information relating to track and field, cross country, walking and road running athletics for those deaf people interested in this exciting sport in the UK.
We are all volunteers and are keen to make positive contributions to the world of athletics to the Deaf community in the United Kingdom.
Tim's back in the racing habit running in the Prison to Prison half-marathon.
Tim ran a half-marathon (21.1km) on Saturday 6 February, in Worcester, South Africa. It was the Prison to Prison half-marathon. His time was 94:53min, and he was 52nd overall. The course started with 5km within the Prison grounds, largely off-road (gravel), and then had 16km out-and-back (8km plus 8km), over a very hilly route. It was 32 degrees celsius on the day! What a lucky guy!
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Following on from the GB Deaflympics get-together in London, James 'Tigger' Schofield hurried up to Cardiff to compete in the Welsh Indoor Champs
Here, he tells his story.
"Before the competition I was a little unsure how it was going to go - I haven't done as much training as I would have liked since Taipei (the best experience of my life!), where I peaked at the right time to produce a PB of 1m93 in an amazing competition.
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DEAF UK ATHLETICS 2010
ATHLETICS AWARDS EVENING
WHERE? Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1RN
WHEN: 17th April 2010
TIME: 6pm onwards
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Our friends in Germany have kindly invited GB to attend their international invitational sports event to be held in Essen, Germany 14-15th May 2010.
This event is in celebration of their 100 anniversary of deaf-club in Essen.
Many countries and different sports have been invited, including, athletics, football and beach volleyball.
This is a big international athletics event.
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Following John's Silver Medal at the Scottish Senior Championships, he again took to the track for the U20 Bank of Scotland Age Group Championships.
Unlike at the Senior Championships, which were a closed competition, the age group championships were open and attracted athletes from the North of England and from Ireland as well as several Scottish athletes.
John entered both the 60m and the 200m events which had heats, semi finals and finals.
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DUKA athlete Candy Hawkins continued with her preparation for the 2010 European Cross Country Championships with a superb run in the 2010 Kent County Cross Country Championships. The event, which took place in Detling, the home of the Kent County Agricultural Society and Detling Steam Rally, saw Hawkins finish in a very creditable 15th position out of 44 runners in the senior women event. Her time of 30.16 was not that far off from the 7,200m winning time of 24.43.
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I have been having an exciting time in Athletics this month - even if it was off the road! I attended the Boland Athletics Technical Officials Symposium on 23 January 2010. The Boland is the province in South Africa in which I live (and a "province" is the equivalent of a British "County", eg Kent).
It was a full-day workshop, in which we analysed and discussed the revised IAAF rules and regulations, and strategised on the appropriate ways in which Athletics Technical Officials should operate at provincial and national level.
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Super Lauren makes her debut in Aviva UK Trials
European 400m indoor record holder Lauren Peffers made her debut in the Aviva UK Championships and World Indoor Trials that was held at the English Institute of Sport arena, Sheffield on 13th Feb 2010.
Lauren's incredible performances in securing the Silver medal in the 2009 Deaflympic Games in Taipei, Taiwan ranked her amongst the best 400m runner in the UK 2009 list. This automatically secured her place in the championships.
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Scottish Senior Indoor Championships Silver for flying John
On Saturday John took part in the Scottish Senior Indoor Championships, competing in the 60m and the 200m.
In the 60m John was drawn in the same heat as Nick Smith the current Scottish Champion, who ran 6.69s at the indoor international last week, John ran a good race finishing 3rd in a PB time of 7.38s, missing out on a final place by 0.05s. Click here to read the full story
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