Leo Freeland, representing Wingate University, broke the club outdoor mile record at a meeting in Azusa, California. While his brother own the indoor mile record at 4:03.30, set earlier this year, the outdoor record stood to Chad Lambert at 4:09.95, set in 2013. Leo started with laps of 62.4, 61.5 and 62.5. A last lap of 59.1 saw him reduce the record by almost five seconds.
Zak Freeland, representing Charlotte University in the USA, opened his season by running the last 1600m leg of the Distance Medley Relay at a meeting in Blacksburg, Virginia. Taking over in fourth place he gradually moved to the front to win with a time of 4:04.28. Distance Medley Relay: 1 Charlotte University 9:45.00 Results from…
Emilia Willis and Olivia Chilton took part in the first indoor open meeting at Lee Valley. Emilia shaved 0.03 seconds off her indoor best at 600m, while Olivia was competing over 600m indoors for the first time (although she has a much quicker time outdoors). 600m: Emilia Willis (F17) 1:40.35 (pb) 600m: Olivia Chilton (F17)…
The latest edition of Athletics MK, edited by Brian Graves, is now available. March 2022
Friday 21 August: Results Base MK5km PB Special There was a big turnout for the MK5km PB Special. Of the 280 who had entered 253 finished the race. 144 finishers achieved personal bests (57%) which was fantastic on a windy day. The Men’s elite race was won by Omar Ahmed (Birchfield) in 14:07. Bronwen Owen…
August 12: Millie Freeland competed in the BMC Grand Prix Meeting at Trafford (where she competed in the NAL meeting in July). She came within a couple of seconds of her 1500m best. 1500m: Millie Freeland (F20) 4:35.64 Full results from Trafford August 13: Four MMK sprinters were in action at the Newham open meeting….
Jack Meijer, running for the University of Wisconsin, competed in a super-fast 1500m race at an open meeting in Minneapolis. In a field of nine starters, five from the University of Wisconsin and four from Minnesota, Jack followed the pacemaker through 300m (8th in 44.93) and 700m (6th in 1:45.58), before moving up the field…