Braintree & District AC enjoy home success

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026

Braintree & District AC hosted a Southern Athletics League Round 2 match on Sunday 21st June for ‘Senior Age Group’ athletes. And, in partnership with Colchester Harriers, we won! The joint team (Team COBRA) scored a very creditable 402 match points ahead of 2nd place Basildon with 348.5 points, and Thurrock with 318 points.

After 2 matches (with 2 matches to go), that puts Team COBRA on on 12.5 league points, Thurrock on 12 points and Basildon on 11.5 points.

Other teams in the division are West Norfolk, City of Southend, Ryston, and West Suffolk.

Highlight Braintree and District AC performances included:

Hannah Smith – Long Jump 2nd with 4.86m

Women

• 100m (B) – Natalie Pepper – 4th – 14.7sec
• 400m (B) – Martha May – 4th – 67.6sec
• 100mH – Natalie Pepper – 2nd – 19.6sec
• HJ – Martha May – 1st – 1.58m
• LJ – Hannah Smith – 2nd – 4.86m
• Hammer – Josephine Conway – 1st – 42.10m
• Discus (B) – Rebecca Greenslade – 2nd – 24.05m
• Javelin (B) – April Reid – 2nd – 16.82m
• 4x100m – 1st

Men

1st PLACE

• 100m (B) – Alexander Holmes – 1st – 11.7sec
• 200m – Thomas Hammond – 2nd – 23.3sec
• 400m – Thomas Hammond – 1st – 52.2ses
• 1500m (B) – Dominic Scherer – 2nd – 4:19.5
• 5000m – Kurtis Swan – 1st 15:55.0
• LJ (non-scoring) – Nathan Clarke – 5.79m (pb) – 4th longest distance overall competition
• Hammer (B) – Ben Clarke – 1st – 35.56m
• Discus – Ben Clarke – 1st – 38.49m
• Javelin (B) – Luke Scillitoe – 1st – 38.47m
• Shot put – Ben Clarke – 2nd – 12.90m

Alexander Holmes – 100m (B) – 2nd in 11.7 sec

After the competition, Braintree & District Chairman, Derek Mason, said: “Firstly, a massive thank you to everyone who helped out this Sunday at the track. It was great to see a full competition once again at the club and has given me more motivation to once again pursue Braintree for the track to be resurfaced. A wonderfully successful day.”