Sunday 1st June was a big day for the club with the U13/U15 team taking a big win at the second Lower YDL fixture of the year and another 3 club records falling along the way! Their final score placed them 70 points clear of 2nd place!
Hugo Bucher further increased the club U15 Javelin record with a huge throw of 64.33!! In fact Hugo’s first throw surprised the officials so much they thought it was a foul. His performance takes him 9 metres clear at the top of the UK rankings and places him 5th in the UK all time list! Not only was the throw a club record it also has beaten the YDL record of 61.40 set in 2016!
The second record came from the U15 girls 4x100m team of Verity Gaskin, Naomi Lawal, Bonnie Shirlaw and Alicia Taylor whose time of 50.86 knocks 0.24 off the previous record and moves them into 10th in the UK rankings.
Our U13 boys 4×100 relay team was so quick we initially missed that they’d also broken a record! Dylan, Alistair, Rupert and Carter’s time of 53.52 places them 6th in the UK rankings and lowered the previous record of 53.79 set back in 2019!
These boys are still learning the event and are sure to get quicker as the season goes on! Well done to them all!
Field eventers
As well as Hugo’s success, there were other club javelin stars: Theo Nock won the U15 boys B event with a throw of 49.49. To put the two boys performance into perspective all remaining competitors from the A and B event threw below 30metres. In the U13 boys javelin there was another Harrier win with Joseph Sheppee adding almost 6 metres to his PB with a best of 35.45, flying up to 6th in the UK rankings
Zephie Turbard won both the U15 girls A Discus and Hammer with bests of 30.06 and 30.56 respectively. The latter being a new PB moving her up to 32nd in the UK – not forgetting her discus best has her placed 8th currently!
Sprinters
Our U15 girls smashed the club record winning the 4x100m but we also had impressive wins for the U13 boys team in 53.52 and U13 girls team in 56.10
There was a big PB for Alicia Taylor on her way to winning the U15 200m. Her time of 26.30 took 0.52 off her previous best.
Isla Richens was a last minute replacement in the U13 70m hurdles and managed to produce a superb time of 13.37 to win the B race.
Rupert Bridges took 1st in the U13 A 150m in 20.91
Carter Ackwany was one of the most impressive athletes of the day, competing in his first ever track event he ran 20.07 in the 150m to win the B event and 10.20 in the non-scoring 75m. Both times were the quickest of any U13 that day!! This was also into strong headwinds too!
Distance runners
Rosie Atkins has been having an amazing season so far and took the U15 girls A victory in 2:20.44 just 0.24 off her PB. Kimberley Hodgkinson ran well to finish 2nd in the B race in 2:29.07.
Eliza Nolan ran well to finish 2nd A in the U13 1200m in 4:04.21 and Jess Bailey produced a 3 second PB of 4:21.00 to win the B race.
Jack Shingler lowered his 1500m PB to 4:28.66 on his way to the win in the U15 A 1500m. Noah Seabright then took the win in the B event with a time of 4:46.03
There was double PBs in the U15 800m, Oscar Elksnis ran 2:18.43 and the hard work is paying off for Ethan Hendry who ran 2:20.94
