February 12: Gold for D’Mitri Varlack and Bronze for Hayley Dimond on Day 2 of the England Athletics U15/U17/U20 Indoor Championships
Four MMK athletes were in action on Day 2 of the England Athletics U15/U17/U20 Indoor Championships at Sheffield, and two came away with medals.
D’Mitri Varlack (pictured above) won the South of England U17 Indoor Long Jump Championship a month ago with a leap of 6.68m. In Sheffield he jumped 6.61m to win the National Title by 10cm – and it’s his first year in this age group.
Hayley Dimond collected a bronze medal in the U17 Shot, with a putt of 13.06m. In the 60m Hurdles she reduced her personal best by 0.2 seconds, with a Club F17 Indoor Record 8.81 seconds for second place and qualifying for the semi-finals. In the Semi-Finals she recorded exactly the same time to qualify for the Final as the fifth fastest qualifier. In the Final, she again beat her previous personal best, with 8.88 seconds for a really special sixth place.
Lateefah Agberemi added four centimetres to the Triple Jump personal best she set last week in the South of England Championships, her 11.94m performance in the F20 Championship was just out of the medals as she finished a very fine fourth. A 9cm improvement would have given her the silver medal!
Hope Oguidi, in her first indoor competition, ran 27.23 in the F17 200m heats to finish fourth, but this was not enough to qualify for the final.