Northern Senior , U20 & U18 Championships

Congratulations to our North of England Champions Amy Hewitt and Gracie Scott.

Amy, jumping into a headwind beat off her rivals, including those with better pbs, to comfortably win the U20 long jump title with 5.35m (any of her top three jumps would have won). Then came back on Sunday to become a double champion by taking the Triple Jump, again in windy conditions, with 10.64. Then for good measure, added HJ silver (in the wind and rain) 1.50m. 

Gracie meanwhile smashed her pb in the U20 javelin with 33.73m to strike gold having already smashed her shot pb with 9.72m for silver and backed this up with 4th in the long jump. Not bad for someone who up to a few years ago was more used to 800m running !

Claudia Berry took silver in the U20 Pole Vault with 3.00m and was back up by Emily Wilson who took bronze in 2.60m. 

Holly Nicholls moved up in distance to run the U18 2000m steeplechase and took silver with 8.52.54.

Over in the throws U18 Isaac Wright threw a pb 12.65m shot and 34.12m discus for two bronzes. 

Corey Middleton stepped up from U20 to race the Seniors instead of running on his own for certain gold over 400 m hurdles and was rewarded with a bronze against athletes 10 years his senior in 56.6. 

Lauren Hewitt showed she’s close to her best with bronze in the triple jump 10.49m and a 1.50m high jump for 5th but the same height as silver, just losing out on count back. Both were just a few cm short of pbs. 

Just outside the medals Alfie Walsh finished 4th in the U18 triple jump with 11.99m. 

Rebekah Hopper finished 5th in both the shot and javelin with 10.78m and 32.72 plus 6th in the discus with 35.32m 

Para athletes Millie Forest and Sam Dyson threw season bests with Millie 8.11m shot and 22.17m discus and Sam 7.12m shot. 

Well done to all athletes, a great set of results