Indoor club records continue to fall
Track & Field results from the weekends indoor action show WADAC young athletes in great early season form.
At the Loughborough Open meeting at the weekend, Rebekah Smith (coach Dave McManus) sent the 3kg shot out to a new pb of 10.52m on Sunday after running 9.14 secs in the 60m hurdles on the Saturday. Also in hurdles action on the Saturday Abi Belward (coach Andy Fisher) opened her season with a time of 9.67 over the senior specifications.
At the BFTTA open meeting in Lee Valley on Sunday, U13G Hallie Eldridge (coach Andy Fisher) broke the club’s age group indoor 60m hurdles record with a time of 10.38 secs and followed this up with a long jump pb of 4.06m which is good enough for 2nd place on the club’s all time age group lists. Training partner Frankie Bertacchini (coach Andy Fisher) went 3rd on the club’s all time indoor age group hurdles list with a time of 10.85 secs and also jumped a pb of 4.02m in the long jump. Holly Poore (oach Dave Sherry) was another to pb with a time of 9 secs flat in the 60m. Sister Chloe (coach Andy Fisher) ran the 800m in a time just inside 2 m 30 secs. Jess Howells (coach Andy Fisher) highlighted that javelin throwers can run and jump too with a pb of 8.18 secs in the 60m and a long jump of 5.16m.
Our youngest athletes were in record breaking form at the Lee Valley minithon on Saturday. Brothers Niko & Teo Sledz (U13 & U11 academy respectively) broke their respective age group indoor club records in the 200m with Teo also equalling the indoor age group club record in the 60m. Hugo Fox (U11 academy) ran a remarkable time of 1.54.70 in the 600m to break both the U11 & U13 age group indoor club record. Leo Davies-Pratt (coach Andy Fisher) went 2nd on both the age group high jump & 600m lists as well as breaking the club’s imndoor age group club record in long jump. Furthermore, Leo & brother Ivor met with Sir Mo Farah after Leo had competed against Mo’s daughter in the high jump. Sean Xie, Ivor Davies-Pratt and Harry Moreton also took part with pb performances in a great weekend for the club.