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COMPLETE MADNESS SPORTS Press Release - Melbourne, AustraliaOctober 10th 2003 Competing in the Girls Schools Victoria (GSV) finals overnight, CMS athlete Claire Wheaton managed Gold, Silver and fourth in her three individual events. Girls Schools Victoria is an annual championships held between all the private schools in Victoria, the second largest State by population in Australia. The top 8 ranked athletes in each event are invited to compete in the finals, held at Olympic Park, home of the 2006 Commonwealth Games. In her first event, the 100m, held into a ferocious head wind, Claire led through the first 50m but was caught as the line approached, eventually finishing fourth. Claire's time of 13.82 seconds was well outside her personal best. During the past month Claire has been training with a new hurdles coach, none other than CMS's Irie Hill, who was a prodigious hurdler in her youth, setting several German junior records. The plan was to try and finally break through the 13 second barrier in Claire's last 80m run. Unfortunately Claire was just outside the time with 13.08 seconds, which was also just outside her own GSV record of 13.06 seconds. In the Long Jump Claire took an unexpected silver medal with 4.61m after coming back from the hurdles mere minutes before. Claire will next compete on Monday night in the IGA Knockout Schools Final, again held at Olympic Park. END OF RELEASE
May 2003

Irie Hill announced her 2003 outdoor fixture campaign today with the express aim of making the World Championships team in Paris.

"After missing out on the World Indoors, and the excitement from competing and winning a medal at last years Commonwealth Games, I want to get out and jump high this summer. My coach and I have worked very hard this winter on technical flaws which cost me good heights in the past, and I believe I am on the verge of a breakthrough in my results.

I am very happy that I will get to compete in my "home" tracks this summer as there are meetings in Melbourne University, where I train in the winter, Eton, which is my home club and also Regensburg which is my club in Germany. Hopefully this will help me to get the qualification mark of 4.40m and get a place on the team to Paris".

Irie will begin her campaign with an open meeting at the University of Melbourne, Australia on June 7th.

Larissa Lowe debuted for her new club, Bournemouth AC, in a Southern Women's league meeting, held at her old club venue of Thames Valley Athletic Club, Eton. Lowe took out first place in the vault with 3.50m, a 10cm improvement from a week earlier, and just 10cm off her personal best.

WSEH athlete Catherine Macrae was second with 3.40m. Unfortuntately as the bar was raised to 3.60m a torrential downpour meant that the competition had to be abandoned, leaving Lowe frustrated.

She travelled to Stoke for the National League match the following day, but again was frustrated as the rain meant the event was cancelled prior to starting! She will now aim to compete in the County Championships next weekend.

CMS NEWSLETTER

January 2nd, 2003

Welcome all to a brand new year of madness with the pole vault. With the addition of sponsorship from ESSXsport for Irie Hill, and also the ability to buy poles from us we are really looking forward to expanding our team in 2003 and adding some new up and coming vaulters from around the globe, stay tuned for more information!

Rachael Dacy has quit the vault and decided to move on to other things, and we wish her well in her future endeavours. Rachael is the current CMS record holder for women with her 4.25m from Box Hill in 2002.

Meanwhile the existing team have been training hard in the off-season, with almost all of them targetting the indoor season.

Dominic Johnson ended his season latest of all, with a win at the CAC championships, and will kick off 2003 in Europe after some intensive training in Zweibrucken, Germany, under the careful eye of his coach, Vitaly Petrov. His first competition will be in Zweibrucken at the end of January.

Irie Hill will hope to continue on the medal winning trail she laid down in 2002, after Commonwealth Bronze and triple Gold at the World Masters she begins her season with a tilt at the World Indoor Championships. Her first competition will be in Glasgow on February 1st, where she will take on the best of the rest from Europe in the
Norwich Union challenge.

Dave Jacobs continues his education in the US at Rice, and will hope to improve on his 2002 results as he becomes more accustomed to the rigours of the US collegiate system. He will begin his competition season in Houston late in Jaunary.

Christian North will aim to cement a top 3 place in the UK when he begins his season in mid-January, knowing he has an outside chance of making the World Indoors as training has been going very well.

Larissa Lowe and Laura Ballotta will be aiming to finally pass the 4m mark which they have been threatening for the past year or so, and with Larissa fully recovered from her hamstring problems of 2002. They start there season this weekend in Cardiff.

Even the coach will have a go, his target is the Cheltenham Harriers indoor record of 3.65m, which he will be aiming to break at the Birmingham Games in Feb, and then a shot at the outdoor record of 4.05m later in the year as he returns to full fitness from his ankle injury of 2002. (No more soccer!!)

Last, but by no means least, the indefatigable Jason Hinkin is back in training after breaking his achilles earlier in 2002, and having to attend his wedding on crutches. Maybe (and we all know it's a big one) married life will settle him down enough to get back to the heights of the former NCAA Div1 champion.

Good luck to everyone in 2003, and above all have fun!

Warren Hill
Director, CMS

IRIE HILL & ESSX SPORT TEAM UP FOR 2003 ASSAULT ON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

ESSXsport Corp. December 2002 (a Nevada Corporation Symbol OTC pinks ESXS) a producer of pole vaulting poles, landing mats and sports equipment has signed up to provide equipment to UK Number 1 female pole vaulter Irie Hill for the upcoming 2003 season.

Hill, the Commonwealth Games Bronze Medalist, will use the ESSX Earl Bell* designed vaulting poles as she prepares for a dual World Championship year, starting in less than 100 days at the NIA in Birmingham, England.

Bruce Caldwell, President and CEO of ESSXsport Corp., and a former pole-vaulter himself said

"Our team of technicians, coaches and world class athletes have developed over the past 20 years important relationships and long lasting friendships that are highly valued. Because of those relationships the team is designing and engineering some of the best sporting goods products to enhance athletes performances. Irie's performances in 2002, where she became the first UK female to ever win a major medal in the pole vault, as well as her triple gold medal winning performance at the World Masters Games convinced us that we should work together towards her goal of becoming one of the top pole vaulters in the world".

Irie Hill said at today's launch " I am very proud to be working with Bruce and the team at ESSXsport. They have been fantastic in the assistance they gave to me last year, when I used ESSXsport poles for the first time at the UK Grand Prix in London. Since then we have been working together with my winning vault at the World Masters Games in October coming on an ESSXsport pole. I feel this is the final piece of my personal puzzle to push my results into the top echelons of world class pole vaulting."

As a part of the sponsorship deal Irie's management company, Complete Madness Sports will also become a reseller of ESSXsport products in the UK and European market, extending an existing agreement currently running in Australia.

For more information on ESSXsport products please go to the ESSXsport website at http://www.essxsport.com.

For more information on ordering poles or landing areas in the UK, Europe or Australia please contact Complete Madness Sports at http://www.completemadness.com

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The statements contained herein that are not historical are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, certain delays beyond the company's control with respect to market acceptance of new technologies or products; delays in testing and evaluation of products; and other risks detailed in the Company’s information package available upon request from the Company.

ESSX Earl Bell* Three-time Olympian and famous Vault Coach

End of Release.

Complete Madness Sports and Whitehorse Pole Vault Club combine in world's first Midnight Madness.
For more information click here :-Midnight Madness

August 13th - Dominic Johnson sets new PB, 5.70m
August 6th - Irie Hill sets new PB and Olympic 'B' Qualifier in Stoke-on-Trent, England

July 2000

July 13th- Irie Hill jumps a new PB in Jockgrim, German newspaper coverage
July 2nd - Irie Hill and Rachael Dacy go back over 4m for the first time since January. Competing in
              Germany and Australia respectively, Irie Hill and Rachael Dacy cleared 4.10m and 4.05m, to
              begin to close the gap to the Olympic qualifier (4.30m). Both athletes will have two further
              competitions this weekend.

June 28th - CMS adds new athlete - Gordy Sasser from the USA.
June 24th/25th - CMS athletes win across the globe. Larissa Lowe, Dominic Johnson, Irie Hill and the CMS team in Hawaii.

May 16th - CMS gets over 10,000 hits barrier, THANK YOU!
May 16th - Confirmation of meetings coming in, schedule being completed for CMS athletes. See fixtures for more information.
May 14th - Larissa Lowe wins Berkshire County Championships and is selected for Inter Counties.
May 7th - Dominic Johnson sets new season's best today. See Results Page for more information.

April 16th   - Eric Boxley & Dominic Johnson both set new season's best results competing in Texas,
                  USA today. See Results Page for more information
April 17th   - Rachael Dacy returned to training today after her burst appendix operation. Rachael is fit and raring to go and focusing on the Australian trials in August.
April 22nd - Eric Boxley has finished 4th at the prestigious Arizona Elite Classic in Tucson, USA today. See Results Page for more information.
April 23rd   - Larissa Lowe sets new season best winning in Kingston Upon Thames. See Results page for more information.
April 28th   - Dominic Johnson finishes 6th in the prestigious Drake Relays.

March 2000

March 5th   - Irie Hill sets new indoor p.b. and goes to #2 on UK All Time Indoor lists.
March 9th   - Irie Hill wins State League final in Melbourne.
March 16th - CMS announces joint venture with on-line sponsorship specialists Flying Starts. CMS will represent FS athletes on this summer's European circuit, FS will work together with CMS to secure sponsorship for athletes represented by the combined group. Link!
March 24th - CMS has added a new vaulter to their stable, Eric Boxley from the USA. Eric will be competing in CMS Colours this summer.
                     You can see more information about Eric on the CMS Athletes page.

January 1st - Irie Hill Olympic Spotlight on-line at This is Slough. Link!
January 11th - Irie Hill clears 4.00m for first time in 2000.
- Rachael Dacy clears a new Personal Best of 4.20m to take 3rd place on Australian all time lists.
January 15th - Irie Hill clears 4.00m for second time, beating Rachael Dacy for the first time.
January 21st - Irie Hill sets new indoor p.b. in Reno, Nevada and goes to #6 on UK All Time Indoor lists
January 29th - Irie Hill sets new indoor p.b. at British Indoor Championships and goes to #3 on UK All Time Indoor Lists

December 1999

6 November 1999 ~ Kevin Hughes article on Track & Field on-line. Link!

October 1999