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Post by Tom on Aug 26, 2017 8:32:00 GMT 1
Both the hockey teams lost their semi-finals and have got bronze medal matches over the weekend.
Also worth mentioning in tennis that 22 year old Cameron Norrie, competing in his first grand slam qualifying event, has qualified for the US Open after beating the 22nd seed Go Soeda 6-1 7-6 (7-5) in the final round.
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Post by Shireblogger on Sept 15, 2017 10:24:37 GMT 1
ENGLAND WOMEN'S RUGBY TEAMRunners-up in the World Cup held in Ireland. Beaten 41-32 by New Zealand in Belfast. England beat Spain, Italy, USA and France on their way to the final. The Womens Rugby World Cup has been staged 8 times. New Zealand have won 5 of the tournaments, England two (1994 and 2014) and the USA one (the first event, in 1991). England have been beaten finalists 5 times, and finished 3rd on the only occasion that they didn't reach the final.
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Post by Shireblogger on Sept 15, 2017 10:32:54 GMT 1
GABRIELLE & CHRIS ADCOCKBronze medallists at the 2017 Badminton World Championships in the mixed doubles event. The tournament was held in Glasgow. The Adcocks had already won the European Championships, in April. They are current Commonwealth Games champions. Gabrielle was born in Leeds; Chris in Leicester. They married in 2013, having been playing partners, on and off, since 2007; and now live in Milton Keynes.
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Post by Shireblogger on Sept 15, 2017 10:36:49 GMT 1
EDWARD LING2017 World Shotgun Championships silver medallist, in the trap competition. The competition was held in Moscow. Ling was bronze medallist in the Rio Olympics, and has one silver and one bronze from previous World Championships. The 34 year-old, from Taunton, first represented Britain at the Athens Olympics.
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Post by Shireblogger on Sept 15, 2017 10:42:21 GMT 1
NEKODA SMYTHE-DAVIS & NATALIE POWELLBoth won bronze medals in the 2017 Judo World Championships, held in Budapest a few weeks ago. Nekoda is from London, competes as a lightweight (57kg), and won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Natalie is from Builth Wells in Wales, competes as a half-heavyweight (78kg), and also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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Post by Shireblogger on Sept 15, 2017 10:49:22 GMT 1
LIAM HEATHA gold medal for Liam in the 2017 Canoe Sprint World Championships, held in Racice in the Czech Republic. Heath won in the K-1 200m class. He now simultaneously holds the Olympic, World and European titles. He's 33 years old, and comes from Guildford. His medal total now reads:- Olympics: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze Worlds: 1 gold, 3 silvers, 2 bronzes Europeans: 5 golds In the same 2017 World Championships, British female canoeists also picked up 3 bronze medals:- Rachel Cawthorn (K-1 1000m), Lani Belcher (K-1 5000m) and Angela Hannah & Hannah Brown (K-2 200m).
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Post by Shireblogger on Sept 15, 2017 10:56:03 GMT 1
LANI BELCHERJust 10 days after picking up a bronze medal in the Canoeing Sprint World Championships, Lani Belcher changed continents to win gold in the Canoeing Marathon World Championships. Located in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Belcher won in the K-1 category, raced over 26 miles, in just over 2 hours and 5 minutes. She now has 2 golds, 4 silvers and 3 bronzes from World and European Championships in sprint and marathon distances, although the first silver (in 2008) was won for the nation of her birth, Australia.
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Post by Shireblogger on Sept 21, 2017 12:02:56 GMT 1
JAMES ANDERSONOne I missed while I was on holiday. England cricketer James Anderson has now passed the milestone of taking 500 Test Match wickets. He is only the 6th person in the 140 year history of Test Match cricket to achieve this, and is the first English player to do so. Three of the players ahead of him on the all-time list are spin bowlers, who are able to bowl more overs in a match and generally have longer playing careers, because their modus operandi is less physical. Quirkily, Anderson has also just achieved a Test Match batting record. He now has more "not out" innings than any other international player, of any nationality, ever, with 65.
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Post by Shireblogger on Oct 4, 2017 18:39:44 GMT 1
MALLORY FRANKLIN, KIMBERLEY WOODS & EILIDH GIBSONA gold medal for this trio in the Canoe Slalom World Championships held in Pau, France last week. They beat the Australian women's team to gold in the C1 event. Mallory Franklin also won individual gold in the same competition. Born in Windsor in 1994, she already has 10 medals from World and European Championships, which rises to 24 if you include Junior and Under-23 categories. She doesn't have any Olympic medals because women do not compete in slalom canoeing at the Olympics, although men do. Slalom kayaking yes, but canoeing no. The British men's team claimed silver in C1, behind Slovakia. The men's team was Ryan Westley, David Florence and Adam Burgess. With 2 golds and 1 silver, Britain finished 3rd in the medal table behind the Czech Republic and France.
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Post by Shireblogger on Oct 9, 2017 13:40:42 GMT 1
MAX WHITLOCKGold on the Pommel Horse in the 2017 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, held in Montreal last week. The 24 year-old from Hemel Hempstead now has 2 golds and 4 silvers in the Worlds, to go alongside his 2 Olympic golds and 3 bronzes, his 3 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze in the Europeans, and his 3 Commonwealth golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes. To save you adding this up, that's a career haul of 10 golds, 9 silvers and 6 bronzes. If he was Russian, Rumanian or Chinese, he would have metro stations, streets and leisure centres named after him. Claudia Fragapane took GB's only other medal - bronze in the Floor Exercise. As a result, GB finished joint 5th in the medal table, behind China, Japan, Russia and the USA.
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Post by raliverpool on Oct 28, 2017 17:22:12 GMT 1
I think this thread may very well have some new additions this weekend.....
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Post by suedehead on Oct 28, 2017 17:28:29 GMT 1
A really impressive performance by England in the second half.
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Post by coolchristie2 on Oct 28, 2017 19:20:42 GMT 1
Amazing - thought they were dead and buried at 2-0 down.
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Post by suedehead on Oct 28, 2017 21:44:48 GMT 1
Amazing - thought they were dead and buried at 2-0 down. Indeed. At that point I was afraid it could get embarrassing.
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Post by Tom on Oct 28, 2017 22:03:18 GMT 1
They were amazing just a shame I had to miss the last two goals (though I have seen the 5th since).
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Post by Shireblogger on Oct 30, 2017 10:27:51 GMT 1
ENGLAND UNDER-17 FOOTBALL TEAMThe Under-20s won the World Cup a few months ago, and now the England Under-17 team has matched them. The tournament finals featured teams from 24 nations, and was held in India. England won Group F, with wins against Chile, Mexico and Iraq. In the knock-out phase they beat Japan on penalties, the USA 4-1, Brazil 3-1, and Spain 5-2 in the Final, in front of 67,000 people in Kolkata (Calcutta). 64,000 people attended the semi-final. Liverpool's Rhian Brewster was the tournament's top scorer with 8 goals. Manchester City's Phil Foden was chosen as the player of the tournament. Looking at the 20-player squad, the breakdown of clubs is as follows:- Chelsea 5 Manchester City 3 Tottenham 2 Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1 Manchester United 1 Everton 1 Stoke City 1 Crystal Palace 1 Fulham 1 Reading 1 Wolves 1 Fleetwood Town 1 Let's hope these youngsters continue to develop with their respective clubs, and we get to see many of them playing in the Premier Division, and progressing through the England teams, in years to come. England have never finished in the Top 4 of this tournament before, although Scotland finished as runners-up in its predecessor, the Under-16 World Cup, in 1989. That Scotland squad included 3 future full internationals:- Paul Dickov (Arsenal, Manchester City, Leicester), Brian O'Neil (Celtic, Aberdeen, Preston) & Andy McLaren (Dundee Utd, Kilmarnock, Reading) And one other player who featured in the English Premier League:- Scott Marshall (Arsenal, Southampton)
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Post by Shireblogger on Oct 30, 2017 10:44:45 GMT 1
LEWIS HAMILTONThe first British Formula 1 motor racing driver to win 4 World Championships (2008, 2014, 2015 and 2017). Only Juan Manuel Fangio (Argentina, 5) and Michael Schumacher (Germany, 7) have more world titles than Lewis. Other Lewis statistics, some of which reflect the fact that there are more races per season now than most previous years, some of which reflect the fact that he drives for the 2nd best funded racing team in an age when money buys technology which wins races, and some of which reflects he is a prodigiously talented and committed sportsman:- - He has more pole positions than any other driver, ever, at 72. (Schumacher is 2nd on 68, and Ayrton Senna (Brazil) 3rd on 65). - He ranks 2nd on the all-time race winner list with 62, behind Schumacher on 91, and ahead of Alain Prost (France) on 51. - He has the 4th best wins per race ratio of any driver, behind Fangio, Alberto Ascari (Italy) and Jim Clark (GB). - He ranks 4th for fastest laps in a race with 38, behind Schumacher on 77, Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) on 45 and Prost on 41. - He has 5 million Twitter followers. - His background is very unusual for a leading motor racing driver. Not only is he a very rare example of a black champion, but he also comes from a working class background. Many of his key rivals had parents with enormous wealth, including several whose fathers were Formula 1 drivers.
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Post by Shireblogger on Oct 30, 2017 11:17:07 GMT 1
MERCEDES FORMULA ONE TEAMDon't be misled by the fact that the owner of the team is German, or the two men in the most senior positions in the team are Austrians. The Mercedes Formula One team is, at its core, British. And it has just won its fourth consecutive constructors World Championship. Team location & factory: Brackley, Northamptonshire Engines developed & built: Brixworth, Northamptonshire Mercedes F1 technical director: James Allison (born 1968 in Lincolnshire) Mercedes F1 engines managing director: Andy Cowell (born 1969 in Blackpool) Mercedes F1 director of engineering: Geoff Willis (born 1959 in Southampton) Mercedes F1 sporting director: Ron Meadows (born 1964 in Liverpool) Mercedes F1 performance director: Mark Ellis (born 1964 in Berkshire) Mercedes F1 chief race engineer: Andy Shovlin (born 1973 in Liverpool) ...and so on
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Post by Tom on Oct 30, 2017 16:20:46 GMT 1
ENGLAND UNDER-17 FOOTBALL TEAMThe Under-20s won the World Cup a few months ago, and now the England Under-17 team has matched them. The tournament finals featured teams from 24 nations, and was held in India. England won Group F, with wins against Chile, Mexico and Iraq. In the knock-out phase they beat Japan on penalties, the USA 4-1, Brazil 3-1, and Spain 5-2 in the Final, in front of 67,000 people in Kolkata (Calcutta). 64,000 people attended the semi-final. Liverpool's Rhian Brewster was the tournament's top scorer with 8 goals. Manchester City's Phil Foden was chosen as the player of the tournament. Looking at the 20-player squad, the breakdown of clubs is as follows:- Chelsea 5 Manchester City 3 Tottenham 2 Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1 Manchester United 1 Everton 1 Stoke City 1 Crystal Palace 1 Fulham 1 Reading 1 Wolves 1 Fleetwood Town 1 Let's hope these youngsters continue to develop with their respective clubs, and we get to see many of them playing in the Premier Division, and progressing through the England teams, in years to come. England have never finished in the Top 4 of this tournament before, although Scotland finished as runners-up in its predecessor, the Under-16 World Cup, in 1989. That Scotland squad included 3 future full internationals:- Paul Dickov (Arsenal, Manchester City, Leicester), Brian O'Neil (Celtic, Aberdeen, Preston) & Andy McLaren (Dundee Utd, Kilmarnock, Reading) And one other player who featured in the English Premier League:- Scott Marshall (Arsenal, Southampton) Particularly interesting post with all the Reading links. Danny Loader scored 1 or 2 goals for the U17s, I still forget how young he is as he was playing U23 and Checkatrade Trophy games last season and has played in the EFL Cup this season. Andy McLaren is a name I remember well. He wasn't at Reading long, about a year I think but was released. Can't remember if it was ever revealed why, it wasn't at the end of the season as I recall which was interesting, but he mentioned in his book (which I keep thinking about getting) about his drug problems which was basically the reason he left. Scott Marshall has been our U23 coach for a couple of months or so now.
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Post by Shireblogger on Oct 31, 2017 10:51:49 GMT 1
JONATHAN REAWorld Superbike Champion for the 3rd consecutive year. There are two races left this season, with 24 completed. Of those 24, Rea has won 14, and come second in 7, such is his level of dominance. Although it is a fully international series, with races in Australia, Thailand, Qatar, the USA, and 7 European countries, and competitors spanning 15 nationalities, Brits currently lie 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 8th in the Championship. Rea hails from Larne in Northern Ireland. His career has seen him finish 2nd in the British Superbike Championship in 2007, 2nd in the Supersport World Championship in 2008, 3rd in the World Superbike Championship in 2014, and then 1st in 2015, 2016 and 2017, having switched from Honda to Kawasaki. He was awarded the MBE in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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