Lily breaks club record as 3 athletes shine at South of England Indoor Combined Event Champs

The first championship event of the indoor track & field season took place at the Lee Valley athletics arena in North London at the weekend.

The South of England Combined Event Champs feature all age groups from U15 upwards and WADAC were represented by Gus Bowden competing in his first ever multi-event competition in the U20 age group and by Anais Andrews and Lily Flute in the U15 girls age group. All 3 athletes are coached by Andy Fisher as part of his young athletes multi-event groups.

No fewer than 5 indoor top 3 all time age group performances were recorded with all 3 athletes getting their names on the list and Lily breaking an indoor age group club record.

Gus had a great competition finishing 9th overall and going 3rd on the clubs all time indoor age group heptathlon lists with his highlight being a 1.84m high jump which won the HJ event and put him joint 3rd on the clubs indoor all time U20 high jump list alongside Jack Bolton. Gus jumped over his own height which for a decathlete is a benchmark of a really strong high jump performance.

Lily topped the WADAC girls coming 5th overall. This included a strong start in the 60m hurdles where Lily’s time of 9.46 secs was good enough to go 2nd on the clubs all time age group indoor lists but her best performance came in the last event the 800m where she won by half a lap in a time of 2 mins 25.96 secs to break Poppy Taylor’s age group indoor club record.

Anais Andrews came 9th overall but had her own celebrating to do as she acheived a massive 21cm pb in the high jump to jointly win this event with a jump of 1.56m which is good enough to put Anais 2nd on the clubs all time age group indoor HJ list.