Lucinda White, of Tonbridge Athletic continued her fine form in the Pole Vault, when she won the South of England under 17 women’s championship at the weekend. She cleared 3.40 metres, in what was her eighteenth competition of the season, whilst securing her ninth win.
These age group championships were held at Kingston, where under 15 Joe Stone took on a number of events. He won the Triple Jump with a personal best of 12.79 metres, finished 2nd in the Long Jump with 6.38m, was 3rd in the 80m hurdles with a pb of 11.66, whilst also running 11.86 for 100 metres.
Another amongst the medal winners was Lucy Tallon, who finished second in the under 15 girls’ 200 metres. Tallon ran a personal best of 25.43 in the final to improve by 0.24 seconds.
Tom Walker, who is enjoying his first year of Pole Vaulting, captured the bronze medal in the under 15 boys’ competition and cleared 2.90 metres.
Recording a personal best Elicia Lacey ran 11.71 in her under 15 girls’ 75 metres heat, before finishing 5th in the final with 11.81. Within the same age group Ellie Cannon placed 4th in the Discus, throwing a distance of 26.15 metres.
Taylor sets Tonbridge parkrun record
There were also a number of excellent distance-running performances from the club’s athletes, at the weekend. Nicole Taylor (photo) set a new women’s record at the Tonbridge parkrun, recording 16.13. This improved the previous mark, of Ashley Gibson, set seven years ago, by 25 seconds.
On the track, Alasdair Kinloch very nearly broke 14 minutes for 5000 metres at Nottingham, when he finished 2nd in 14.00.26, at the Festival of 5000s.
Steve Strange won and broke the course record at the Clacton 10km road race on Sunday, winning by more than two minutes, in 32.24
Phoebe Barker finished 4th in the Elite women’s race at the Podium 5km road race, at Barrowford, Lancashire. Barker recorded 16.46, which was a personal best over the distance, on the roads.
The top road event in the South-East at the weekend was the Big Half, in London, one of the first races to include thousands of competitors, since the start of the pandemic. A number of runners, from the club, took part in this half marathon, led home by Julian Rendall in 78.42, Luke Hooper at 80.02 and Ben Hepden, setting a big personal best, with 80.26.
At the British Milers Club Festival of Miles, at West London, Kieran Reilly was 4th in the men’s A-race in 4.07.31 and Lily Slack 6th in the under 15 girls’ event in 5.19.02.