Students in action in Sheffield

The British Universities & Colleges indoor championships took place at the English Institue of Sport at the weekend with 4 of the clubs athletes in action for their university teams.

Harry Harvey (coach James Thie) was in action for Cardiff Met Uni and ran a new indoor pb of 4 mins 01.66 secs to go 2nd on the clubs all time indoor list. Harry was 4th in his heat and just missed out on the final.

Rohan Gray (coach Mark Upton) had an unfortunate start to BUCS being disqualified for a false start in his 60m heat but did gain some comfort from being part of the Exeter Uni 4 x 200m team that won their heat and qualified for the final where they finished 5th.

Calum Upton (Coach David Vosser) was appearing in a remarkable 8th BUCS indoor championships and it was one of his best as he recorded his best 800m time for 4 years and his best indoor 800m time for 7 years in recording a time of 2 mins 03.29 secs in running for Aston University. Such was the standard of the competition that Calum was 7th in his heat and didn’r progress to the semi finals.

Gus Bowden (coach Andy Fisher) had a good champs by firstly recording a new 60MH pb of 9.16 secs to come 7th in his heat. The next day Gus returned to HJ 1.83m in his qualifying pool and just miss out on the HJ final.