| 2009 |
2008 | ||||||||||||
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2009
Key Results
- European Indoor Trials and UK Championships 200m – 2nd place
- Meeting Arcobaleno Atleticaeuropa, Italy 200m– 1st place
- Internationales Leichtathletik-Sportfest, Germany 200m – 2nd place (defeated US world championship team member ChaRonda Williams)
- Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow 200m Record Holder
- National UK Challenge Double-Sprint Champion - 200m (3rd consecutive year) & 100m
- BAL Golden Jubilee Cup Final 200m - Champion (3rd consecutive year)
- Undefeated in British Athletics League & UK Women's League 200m events for 3rd consecutive year
- Mount SAC Relays, USA 200m (Open) – 1st place
- McCain Birmingham International Games 200m – 1st place
- World Trials & UK Championships 200m – 6th place
- New personal best time of 23.20s for 200m
- Achieved Qualifying B Standard for World Athletics Championships
- Career-High Ranking of 4th in UK for 200m
Key Facts
- Helen has set 3 scorching personal-best 200m times to date so far in 2009, with her p.b now standing at 23.20s!
- She has achieved the Qualifying B Standard for the World Athletics Champsionships in Berlin.
- Helen defeated a number of international elite athletic stars, including ChaRonda Williams - one of the USA’s leading 200m stars ranked in the top-ten in the world and set to represent the USA in the forthcoming World Athletics Championships – in the Internationales Leichtathletik-Sportfest in Germany on July 22nd.
- She was selected to represent England in the Loughborough International Games in May.
- Helen was selected for the biggest international meeting of her career to date in the British Indoor Grand Prix in February following her silver-medal winning performance in the European Indoor Trials.
- Helen has achieved a career-high ranking of 4th in the UK for the 200m event – and stands as the only athlete in the current 2009 UK Top-Ten 200m rankings yet to be selected by UK Athletics to represent the UK in a major championships to date.
Key Season Statistics
| KEY STAT |
Discipline
| Statistic |
|---|---|---|
| Season’s Fastest Time | 200m | 23.20s |
| Ranking – UK Overall (Power of 10) | 200m | 4th | Ranking – UK Challenge | 200m | 1st |
Full 2009 Results
| Date |
Event
| Discipline
| Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Feb | Aviva Indoor European Trials and UK Championships
- Sheffield | 200m | 2nd (p.b) |
| 21 Feb | Aviva British Indoor Grand Prix - Birmingham | 200m | 4th |
| 17 April | Mt. SAC Relays
- Walnut, CA, USA | 200m (Open)
| 1st |
9/10 May
| Surrey County Championships
- Kingston | 100m
| 1st h1 |
200m
| 1st h1 | ||
400m
| 1st | ||
17 May
| McCain Loughborough International
- Loughborough | 200m
| 3rd |
24/25 May
| CAU Inter-County Championships
- Bedford | 100m
| 3rd |
200m
| 2nd | ||
6 June
| UK Women’s League Division 1 Match
- Birmingham | 100m
| 2nd |
200m
| 1st (p.b) | ||
21 June
| Southern Counties Championships
- Watford | 200m
| 1st h1 |
23 June
| Meeting Arcobaleno Atleticaeuropa
- Celle Ligure, Italy | 100m
| 2nd |
200m
| 1st | ||
2 July
| Outdoor Classic Meeting
- Velenje, Slovenia | 200m
| 4th |
12 July
| Olympic Trials and Aviva National Championships
- Birmingham | 200m
| 6th |
18 July
| McCain Birmingham International Games
- Birmingham | 100m
| 2nd |
200m
| 1st | ||
22 July
| Internationales Leichtathletik-Sportfest
- Cuxhaven, Germany | 200m
| 2nd (p.b) |
29 July
| Loughborough European Athletics Permit Meeting
- Loughborough | 200m
| 2nd |
8 August
| BAL Golden Jubilee Cup Final
- London (He) | 100m
| 2nd |
200m
| 1st | ||
15 August
| UK Challenge Final
- Cardiff | 100m
| 1st |
200m
| 1st |
2008
Key Results
- Undefeated in British Athletics League & UK Women's League 200m events for 2nd consecutive year
- National Inter-County Champion - 200m
- National UK Challenge Champion - 200m (2nd consecutive year)
- Surrey County Championship Record Holder - 200m
- Thames Valley Athletics Stadium Record Holder - 200m
- Olympic Trials & UK Championships 200m - 6th place
- BAL Golden Jubilee Cup Final 200m - Champion (2nd consecutive year)
- £5K Golden Challenge Winner
- Top-ten ranked in UK 200m Merit Rankings
Key Facts
- Helen is set to complete a deserved move to regular international competition abroad next year after her breakthrough 2008 season of record-breaking 200m performances.
- The former Olympic Champion Linford Christie offered his services following Helen's incredible run of form, and now mentors Helen.
- Helen claimed the biggest prize in the UK domestic athletics league winning the season-ending 2008 'UK Golden Challenge' prize - awarded to the most consistently successful British-League based athlete of the year.
- Helen recorded a scorching personal-best time of 23.29s in the BAL Cup Semi-Final in July, where she took more than a quarter of a second from the longstanding Thames Valley Athletics Stadium 200m record.
- Helen claimed the national 200m titles in the Inter-County Championships and in the UK Challenge (for the second consecutive year)
- She set a new Surrey Championship 200m record in the Surrey County Championships
- "One of the most underrated sprinters around" - National
magazine 'Athletics Weekly' described Helen as this in recognition of
her status as the only top-ten merit-ranked elite 200m
sprinter in the UK who was not given the opportunity to compete abroad
in 2008. Her considerable successes this year have thus come
against the odds in frequently difficult weather conditions. - Helen, who subsidises her training through work as a fitness instructor, outperformed a number of full-time funded athletes in the Olympic trials in July, finishing in 6th place in the 200m against a field of seasoned regular international athletes.
- Helen now needs to run just 0.09s faster to reach Olympic or World Championship qualifying times. Her recent and long-overdue selection by UK Athletics bosses to perform abroad next season against world-class opposition thus gives her an excellent chance to step-up beyond this level on the international stage.
Key Season Statistics
| KEY STAT |
Discipline
| Statistic |
|---|---|---|
| Season’s Fastest Time | 200m | 23.29s (w) |
| Ranking – UK Challenge | 200m | 1st |
| Ranking – UK Merit | 200m | 8th |
Full 2008 Results
| Date |
Event
| Discipline
| Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan | Southern Indoor Senior Championships - London (L.V) | 60m | 3rd h3 |
| 2 Mar | Windsor Open Indoor Meeting - Eton | 60m | 1st |
26 April
| Southern Women’s
League
- Eton | 100m
| 1st |
200m
| 1st | ||
10/11 May
| Surrey County Championships
- Kingston | 100m
| 1st |
200m
| 1st | ||
18 May
| Loughborough International
- Loughborough | 200m
| 2nd rA |
25/26 May
| CAU Inter-County Championships
- Bedford | 100m
| 2nd h2 |
200m
| 1st | ||
1 June
| Bedford International Games
- Bedford | 200m
| 3rd |
28 June
| Southern Women’s
League – Premier
- Chelmsford | 100m
| 1st |
200m
| 1st | ||
5 July
| UK Women’s League
Division 1 Match
– Manchester (SC) | 100m
| 2nd |
200m
| 1st | ||
12/13 July
| Olympic Trials and Aviva National
Championships
- Birmingham | 200m
| 6th |
19 July
| BAL Cup Semi-Final
- Eton | 200m
| 1st |
2 August
| UK Women’s League
Division 1 Match
– London (He) | 100m
| 2nd |
200m
| 1st | ||
9 August
| UK Challenge Final
| 200m
| 1st |
6 September
| British Athletics League Golden
Jubilee Cup Final- Eton
| 200m
| 1st |
2007
Key Results
- 16 wins from 25 races
- Undefeated in British Athletics League & UK Women's League 200m events
- National Inter-County Championships 200m - 2nd place
- Bedford International Games 200m - 2nd place (defeated former Olympic finalist Donna Fraser)
- South of England Senior Championships 200m - 3rd place
- National Inter-territorial Championships 200m - 1st place
- BAL Golden Jubilee Cup Final - 1st place in 200m, 2nd place in 100m
- UK Challenge final 200m - 1st place (on debut appearance)
Key Facts
- One of the 'Most-Improved Athletes for 2007' - UK Athletics. Helen was awarded this accolade by UK athletics due to her tremendous climb to the top of the UK CHALLENGE 200m RANKINGS during 2007 (the only ranking scheme to measure the consistency of performance on UK soil exclusively).
- Helen achieved her biggest win of her career on her debut appearance at the season-ending UK Challenge showdown event.
- All the athletes ranked above Helen have benefited from competing in more favourable conditions abroad this year; Helen is the only top 15 sprinter to have performed entirely on UK soil in 2007, achieving her winning times in frequently difficult weather conditions.
- Helen has improved her average time for the 200m this year by almost a whole second over her average for 2006. Just half a second now separates her from the official Olympic qualification time for Beijing in 2008.
- Helen has climbed over 40 places in the UKA outdoor 200m rankings this year. Her success continues her phenomenal rise to the top following two injury-plagued years and the sad loss of her mother to cancer in 2005.
- Helen received her First Grand-Prix invitation of her career to compete in the prestigious London Grand Prix event at Crystal Palace in August 2007.
- In June 2007 Helen clocked her fastest ever head-wind time of 23.72s for 200m at the Bedford International Games, beating former Olympic finalist Donna Fraser and securing 2nd place to last year's Commonwealth finalist Laura Turner
- Helen has built a team of world-class specialists around her training program. This team now includes world-renowned Corrective Exercise specialist and faculty member Matthew Wallden from the international C.H.E.K Institute, sprint coach Tony Seville, strength and conditioning coach John Shirley and rehabilitation specialist Jim Adkins.
Key Season Statistics
| KEY STAT |
Discipline
| Statistic |
|---|---|---|
| Season’s Fastest Time | 100m | 11.7s (w) |
| 200m | 23.72s | |
| Ranking – UK Challenge | 100m |
3rd |
200m |
1st |
Full 2007 Results
| Date |
Event
| Discipline
| Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 April | Southern Women’s League
Division 1 Match - Crawley | 100m | 1st |
200m
| 1st | ||
| 12 May | Surrey County Championships – Kingston | 100m | 1st |
200m
| 1st | ||
27 May
| CAU Inter County Championships
– Bedford
| 200m
| 2nd |
10 June
| Bedford International
Games – Bedford
| 100m –
B string | 1st |
200m –
A string | 2nd | ||
17 June
| South of England Senior Championships
– Crystal Palace | 200m
| 3rd |
7 July
| UK Women’s League
Division 2 Match – Eton
| 100m
| 1st |
200m
| 1st | ||
15 July
| Senior Inter-territorial
Match – Birmingham
| 100m
| 2nd |
200m
| 1st | ||
21 July
| BAL Semi-Final – Eton
| 200m
| 1st |
29 July
| Norwich Union World Trials &
AAA Championships – Manchester Sportcity
| 200m
| 3rd h3 |
3 August
| Norwich Union Super Grand Prix
UKA
– Crystal Palace | 100m
| 8th |
5 August
| UK Women’s League
Division 2 Match
– Milton Keynes | 100m
| 2nd |
200m
| 1st | ||
12 August
| Southern Inter-Counties
Match – Portsmouth
| 100m
| 1st |
200m
| 1st | ||
18 August
| British Athletics League
Golden Jubilee Cup Final
- Bedford | 100m
| 2nd |
200m
| 1st | ||
25 August
| UK Challenge Final
| 100m
| 3rd |
200m
| 1st | ||
1 September
| Southern Women’s
League Division 1 Match
- Crawley | 100m
| 1st |
200m
| 1st |