Millie Freeland ran the second quickest time by a female MMK 1500m runner as she knocked 7.5 seconds off her own MMK F20 Club Record. Her time of 4:26.26 is just one second slower than Linda Dewhirst’s Club Senior Record, set in 1987.
Laura Zialor improved her own Club High Jump record by 3cm, recording 1.83m to claim the silver medal behind Morgan Lake at the England Athletics U23 Championships at Bedford. MMK Results: M23 100m heat/semi/Final 2/3/6 Maxwell Brown 10.82(w+0.0)/10.71(w-2.1)/10.86(w-1.9) F23 100m heat: 8 Rachel Oderinde 12.78 (w-2.2) F23 100m heat/semi/Final 3/5/8 Ebony Carr 12.09(w-0.9)/12.01(w-1.3)12.12(w-2.5) F23 High…
Birchfield’s Matthew Scarsbrook and Higham Harriers’ Rachel Doherty won the hilly Weedon 10km road race, held on a warm evening.
MMK athletes competed in opening meetings over the weekend with meetings at Rugby, Biggleswade and Sheffield on the Saturday and at Loughborough and Nuneaton on the Sunday. Biggleswade Shot: Louis Nash (M20) 11.23m (=pb) Shot: Bunt Scott (M70) 8.40m Discus: Louis Nash (M20) 39.54m Discus: Oliver Gutteridge (M20) 38.41m (pb) Discus: Bunt Scott (M70) 29.12m…
With a few dropouts, there are 251 athletes expected to line up for the MK3000 PB Special, with 16 races starting at 3:30pm. The Elite Men’s race is scheduled for 7:30pm, to be followed by the Elite Women’s races at 7:45pm. All will be trying for a PB! Start Lists
MMK young athletes were out in force, representing their schools and colleges at the Bucks Schools’ Cross Country Championships at Stowe Schools. Pride of place went to Finlay Gibbs, winner of the Senior Boys race, with Matthew Dicks second. Sonja de Koning was third in the Junior Girls Race. Full results from Stowe
Katie James set two all-time personal bests in Birmingham, at the National Indoor Arena, recording 26.21 for 200m and 58.50 for 400m, suggesting that really fast times will come this summer. In a welcome return to competition, Abi Fitton ran her first 400m race in 60.42. Two high jumpers, Sam Featherstone (1.90m) and Robert Lewis…