June 7/8: Gold for Abiola Bello Obadun and two Bronzes for Aubrey Christon at the SEAA Championships
Marshall Milton Keynes was well represented at the U17/U15/U13 South of England Championships at Crystal Palace.
Pride of place on Day 1 went to Abiola Bello Obadun (pictured above) in the U17 Men’s 100m. After finishing second in his heat and second again to the same athlete in the semi-finals, the winning athlete was unable to take part in the Final. In a very tight finish, Abiola ran his second personal best of the day to win by 0.003 seconds.
Aubrey Christon (pictured right) set a new Club Record in the U13 Boys 100m semi-finals, but could not quite match this in the Final as he finished a fine third.
Elsewhere, Ben Phillips was fouth in the Under 15 Boys Pole Vault, with a 10cm improvement on his previous best, to go second on the Club all-time rankings. In the High Jump, Under 13 Girl, Harriet Kendall, was just out of the medals as was Under 17 Man Oladipo Akib.
On Day 2, Aubrey Christon ran the first 200m race of his life, qualifying for the Final. In the Final he ran almost a second quicker, to break Ayyomide Fatoki’s 6-year-old club record by 0.42 seconds, for another bronze medal.
Elsewhere, Emi Okodugha just missed a medal in the F13 100m and Lemuel Osei Bonsu was sixth in the Final of the M15 100m. Ethan Okeke was fifth in the M13 Long Jump. Olive Geary set a new personal best in finishing fifth in the F17 1500m Final.
| Under 13 Girls | ||||||
| 100m heats | 2 | Emi Okodugha | 14.05 | w-1.7 | Q | |
| 100m Semis | 2 | Emi Okodugha | 13.44 | w-0.2 | Q | pb |
| 100m Final | 4 | Emi Okodugha | 13.40 | w-0.9 | pb | |
| 200m heats | 3 | Imani Ferguson | 29.09 | w+1.9 | pb | |
| High Jump | 4= | Harriet Kendall | 1.30 | |||
| Under 15 Girls | ||||||
| 100m heats | 8 | Kassie Moses | 14.56 | w-0.2 | ||
| 200m heats | 5 | Kassie Moses | 28.85 | w+0.9 | pb | |
| 75mH heats | 5 | Sophia Ugbene | 18.00 | w+0.5 | ||
| Shot | 9 | Sophia Ugbene | 7.26 | pb | ||
| Under 17 Women | ||||||
| 100m heats | 2 | Abigail Ajakaye | 12.37 | w+1.0 | ||
| 200m heats | 6 | Mila Don Liyanage | 27.40 | w-1.5 | q | |
| 200m semis | 4 | Mila Don Liyanage | 27.01 | w-1.7 | ||
| 400m heats | 4 | Mila Don Liyanage | 62.78 | pb | ||
| 1500m heats | 2 | Olive Geary | 4:42.96 | Q | ||
| 9 | Natasha Freeland | 5:03.74 | pb | |||
| 9 | Libby Freeland | 5:04.85 | ||||
| 14 | Tabitha Bosley | 5:15.86 | ||||
| 1500m Final | 5 | Olive Geary | 4:35.39 | pb | ||
| Under 13 Boys | ||||||
| 100m heats | 1 | Aubrey Christon | 12.31 | w+0.9 | Q | |
| 3 | Finn Flaherty | 14.48 | w+0.5 | pb | ||
| 4 | Jerald Mensah | 14.59 | w+0.8 | pb | ||
| 4 | Nathan Ugbene | 14.74 | w+0.5 | pb | ||
| 100m Semis | 2 | Aubrey Christon | 12.08 | w+1.4 | Q | Club M13 Record |
| 100m Final | 3 | Aubrey Christon | 12.17 | w+0.7 | ||
| 200m heats | 2 | Aubrey Christon | 25.47 | w+1.9 | Q | |
| 200m Final | 3 | Aubrey Christon | 24.58 | w-0.5 | Club M13 Record | |
| 800m heats | 4 | Oliver Brown | 2:30.25 | |||
| Long Jump | 5 | Ethan Okeke | 4.75 | w-1.8 | pb | |
| 12 | Finn Flaherty | 4.04 | w+0.7 | |||
| 16 | Daniel Don Liyanage | 3.41 | w+0.1 | |||
| 18 | Jerald Mensah | 3.33 | w+1.0 | |||
| Shot | 7 | Finn Flaherty | 6.06 | pb | ||
| Under 15 Boys | ||||||
| 100m heats | 2 | Lemuel Osei Bonsu | 12.07 | w-0.9 | Q | |
| 7 | Douglas Mensah | 13.62 | w+1.4 | |||
| 100m Semis | 2 | Lemuel Osei Bonsu | 11.70 | w-0.7 | Q | |
| 100m Final | 6 | Lemuel Osei Bonsu | 12.01 | w-1.8 | ||
| 200m heats | 5 | Douglas Mensah | 28.51 | w+1.9 | ||
| 80mH heats | 5 | Douglas Mensah | 17.10 | w+0.2 | ||
| Pole Vault | 4 | Ben Phillips | 3.10 | pb | ||
| Javelin | 11 | Ben Phillips | 32.74 | |||
| Under 17 Men | ||||||
| 100m heats | 2 | Abiola Bello Obadun | 11.34 | w+0.4 | q | |
| 3 | Chukwudi Onyebuchi | 11.45 | w+0.4 | |||
| 100m Semis | 2 | Abiola Bello Obadun | 11.13 | w+0.3 | Q | |
| 100m Final | 1 | Abiola Bello Obadun | 11.08 | w+0.8 | pb | |
| 400m heats | 4 | Dylan Hughes | 53.25 | |||
| 800m heats | 4 | Harvey Wood | 2:08.54 | |||
| High Jump | 5 | Oladipo Akib | 1.75 | pb= | ||
| Triple Jump | 7 | Oladipo Akib | 12.86 | w+0.7 |