ENFIELD & Haringey AC won nine individual medals - gathered from across the complete spectrum of track and field - in the South of England championships held at Watford.

Dee Bakre (18) improved her personal best triple jump figures by 2 centimetres when winning the gold in the U20 event, her 12.04m combination taking her up to number three on the UK ranking list.

Ben Nagy (19), who is currently ranked UK number one for the under-20 2000m steeplechase, had a relatively easy victory in that event, winning by 3 seconds in 6:00.63 – his second fastest time.

Torema Dorsett (19) is also ranked third in the UK women’s under-20 lists, thanks to her season’s best time of 11.73, achieved when winning the W20 100m. Angelika Brown was sixth in 12.54.

Nineteen-year-old Shaun Collins added to the senior Inter-Counties 3km steeplechase title won in May when he kicked in a fierce last 300m to take the senior 5000m title by three seconds with his second best time of 14:39.70 and beat a large field of over 30 competitors.

Matt Brown threw a season’s best of 55.56m in the discus event, his victory in the senior championship underlining Matt’s seventh place in the UK rankings. Helen Middleton heel-and-toed her way to gold in the women’s 5000m walk with a 29:40.20 timing.

Bonne Buwembo placed second in the senior Javelin competition with his throw of 66.16m and Hakeem Ogunyemi took bronze in the senior 100m with his season’s best time of 10.53. Aaron James would have been credited with a personal best time (14.54) in the heats of the 110m hurdles but for a following wind which was just over the limit. Ironically the wind changed round for the final where he just failed to better his heat time, running 14.69 into a strong head wind to take the bronze medal Jordan Huggins (18) ran an encouraging season’s best of 10.76 to finish fourth in the M20 100m, proof that he is steadily regaining form after two serious injuries. Sean Safo-Antwi was fifth in that final with 10.96 after running a PB of 10.83 in the heats. Adam Daish was also just outside the medals with his 48.65 timing in the senior 400m championship Nikki Silva achieved a PB of 2:13.23 when finishing fifth in the senior women’s 800m and Jon Lodowski also set new personal figures with fifth place in the senior 400m hurdles, clocking 54.06.

* In a head to head with Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow AC - the reigning UK champions – the EHAC young athletes team just failed to topple the Berkshire club from the top of the UKA YA League Southern Premier division by a mere nine points last Sunday. Making good use of their home club advantage, WSE&H built up a substantial lead by halfway which Enfield & Haringey, who were always second, gradually whittled away. The Middlesex club went home at the end of the day convinced that they can beat WSE&H in the national final in September.

In an afternoon of outstanding EHAC performances two athletes stood out: Desiree Henry dominated the G15 200m, striding majestically away to win by over two seconds in 24.5. Desiree tops the UK G15 ranking lists at 200 with a 24.41 timing and her winning run in the match 100m – timed at 12.0 - takes to her the top of that list as well.

In the Boys under-15 competition, Stephen Arthurworrey sliced nine seconds from his 800m PB with a gun to tape front running performance to stop the clock at 2:04.2; Horeb Makabukidi – who had stepped in at an hour’s notice – made his 800m debut in the B race and delighted his team by winning in 2:14.0. Stephen then went on to win the high jump with a 1.75m clearance – the same height as the M17 winner - then ran a 51.7 lap on the last leg of the 4 x 400m relay to bring the Enfield B15 team home for an unexpected victory.

In a series of double A and B strings wins by Enfield & Haringey AC athletes, Jordan Arthur and Reece Noonan did a double double with wins in both the 100 and 200m, Jordan recording 11.2 and 22.0 and Reece clocking 11.2 and 22.5.