Golden Games

FORMER sprint Star Darren Campbell (left) is pictured with some members of the Oldham team who competed in the Greater Manchester Youth Games. Also pictured is the Mayor of Oldham, Cllr Shoab Akhtar and Cllr Jackie Stanton.

TEAM Oldham enjoyed great success at the Greater Manchester Youth Games.
The youngsters, one of 10 boroughs in the competition, picked up 15 medals overall, including four golds.

They also came away with four silver medals, five bronze medals and two fair play awards for the netball under-13s and 15s.

The squad of 250, making up 25 teams in total, had spent months training hard with the help of 60 volunteer coaches and managers.

And all this effort paid off when the games got under way at the Belle Vue Leisure Centre and Wright Robinson Sports College .

Two of the gold medals were won by the basketball under-16s and the badminton under-13s.

After a league campaign in the lead up to the Games, the basketball team won their play-off and clinch top honours.

Other gold medals went to the boccia and table tennis YPD teams, with the former winning all four of their matches on the day.

Defeat in their final games left the basketball under-13s and badminton under-15s having to settle for silver medals.

One of the biggest surprise was the success of the athletics teams, who performed magnificently to secure silver.

The cheerleaders were also second following a morale-boosting performance of their routine at the pre-Games party.

Bronze medals also went to the tennis, water polo, table tennis as well as the girls football YPD.

A highlight was in the water polo team’s 6-1 win against Rochdale.

There were a clutch of superb performances during the Games from Matthew Johnson (boccia), James McDermott (athletics), Jenny Cooney (badminton), Jayne Roberts (hockey), Elliot Chadderton (water polo), Charlie Cotton and Zak Andrews (basketball).


OLDHAM Schools under-15s face a tough trip to Sefton in round one of this season’s North-West Alder Owen Cup.

First-round ties must be completed by the end of October.

Draw for round one: Warrington v Trafford, Salford v West Lancs, Macclesfield v Knowsley, Sefton v Oldham, Bury v Wirral, Mid Cheshire v St. Helens, Wakefield v Manchester. Byes: Bolton, Spen Valley, Blackburn, Bradford, Preston, Stockport, Wigan, Tameside, Liverpool. 

OLDHAM Greenhill Community Sports Club are looking for new players for their football teams at under-10s, 11s, 12s, 14s and 17s.

For more information, contact Brian on (0161) 2139067 or the club;s sports co-ordinator on 07815 509025.

PHOENIX Athletic require new players at under-10s and 11s level for next season.

Both teams train on Monday evenings and play Saturday mornings. For more details, call Steve Astley on 07971114997.