WADAC women bring home 6 medals from Area indoor champs

Another regional champs, another big medal haul as WADAC returned from the South of England and Welsh U20 indoor champs with 6 medals, two of them gold.

At the Welsh indoor U20 champs in Cardiff, Abi Belward (Coach Andy Fisher) was responsible for 3 of these collecting the full set of medals yesterday in a great display of multi-eventing. After finishing 8th in Saturday’s sprint hurdles final, Abi returned yesterday to collect gold in the shot putt, silver in the high jump & bronze in the long jump.

At the South of England U20 indoor champs in Lee Valley, the clubs athletes came away with 3 medals. Arabella Wilson (coach Andy Fisher) took gold in the shot putt, Mia Judd (coach Tony Bateman) took silver in the high jump and Amy Wall (coach Andy Fisher) won bronze in the long jump.

Also in Lee Valley in the U20 age group, Henry Shadbolt (coach Mark Upton) ran a big pb of 7.68 secs to be 6th in his 60m heat. Rohan Gray (coach Mark Upton) made it through his heat to the 60m Semi-finals where he finished 5th but can console himself with a new pb of 7.15 secs from his heat. Tabitha Williamson (coach Andy Fisher) was 5th in her 60m heat and training partner Carys Jefries (coach Andy Fisher) had a busy weekend finishing 3rd in her 60m heat nd 5th in her 200m heat as well as coming 6th in the long jump.

In Boston yesterday, Annie Mann (coach James Mann) unfortunately didn’t finish in the junior girls International mile but there will be better days ahead for Annie.