 While virtually all outdoor sport was cancelled this weekend, the Northern Athletics Senior, U20 & U17 Indoor championships at EIS in Sheffield went ahead as planned. 12 Southport Waterloo athletes made their way across the Pennines to compete and between them picked up 4 medals and achieved plenty of PBs.
After racing over 200m here for the last 3 years, Renee Adams moved up a distance to 300m this time around and had a great day on Saturday. She easily won her heat in the morning in 42.80, just 1 tenth short of her PB, before moving into the semi finals and smashing said PB as she finished 3rd to qualify for the final in 41.23. In the final she had the toughest lane being right on the inside and was boxed in just after the break line but still managed to get herself into 3rd place, picking up a well deserved bronze medal. Her time in the final was 41.41.
Adam Byrne was another to pick up a medal as he finished 2nd in the U20 men’s Shot with a best of 11.64m then capped off a great day later on with a PB in the Pole Vault, clearing 3.60m to finish 4th. On Sunday, he added to his medal tally finishing 3rd in the High Jump clearing 1.70m.
Lauren Byrne ran in the U20 women’s 60m Hurdles on the Saturday, finishing 4th in her heat in 9.69 but saved her best for the High Jump on Sunday, where her 1.65m clearance gave her the gold medal, her 4th Northern High Jump medal but her first time as champion.
The final medal went to Will Delamere in the U17 men’s 1500m, 1 of 3 Southport Waterloo athletes lining up at the start with Caleb Still and Liam McCormick in the same race. While the fastest man on paper took it out from the start and opened up a huge lead, Will stuck right on the shoulder of 2nd until 400 to go when he kicked hard, increasing the gap with almost every stride and comfortably crossing the line to take the silver medal in 4:13.52. Caleb and Liam both ran PB’s, Caleb’s time of 4:22.94 giving him 4th place while Liam was 6th in 4:25.88, taking nearly 4 seconds off his best from last year.
Reuben Donnelly ran in the U20 men’s 1500m immediately after the U17’s had raced and in his first race on an indoor track finished 5th in 4:29.92. Luke Ward was also in this race but was forced to drop out with an injury after 300m.
Amber Hughes competed in the Senior Women’s 60 Hurdles on Saturday and finished 6th in her heat in 9.60, while Sierra Jalloh raced in the Senior Women’s 200 on Sunday, narrowly missing out on qualification for the final as she finished 4th in her heat in 26.30.
Matthew Nuttall was in action in the U17 men’s Shot on Sunday, finishing 4th with a best of 8.85m and finally Josh Tan took on the U20 men’s 60m on Saturday afternoon, finishing 3rd in his heat and taking 1 hundredth off his PB with 7.21, before taking another hundredth off in his semi final, finishing 4th in 7.20.
So another successful Northern senior championships – well done to all athletes who competed. The junior championships for U13 & U15 are in 3 weeks time on Sunday 2nd February.
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