28th August 2012
Weekend Update
28 August 2012
UK Challenge inc Inter-Counties, BMC Final, Bedford, August 25/26
Highlight of the first day was the senior 100m win of World junior finalist Chijindu Ujah (Jonas Tawiah-Dodoo), who set a PB of 10.26/1.5 to go second in the McCain Power of Ten under 20 rankings.
Jo Jackson (Andi Drake) went top of the McCain Power of Ten rankings at 3000m walk with 12:57.20 as she won by over a minute.
Olympic 400m runner Nigel Levine (Linford Christie) won the 400m easily in 46.34.
Serita Solomon (Lloyd Cowan) won the 100m hurdles in 13.42/1.9 after a windy 13.40/2.3 semi.
Alex Al Ameen (Cowan) won the 110m hurdles in 13.92/0.9 after a windy 13.90/2.1 semi.
Zoe Derham (Derek Evily) won the hammer easily with 64.50m, while Greg Beard (Mark Chapman) set a PB of 18.21m in the shot to go fourth in the McCain Power of Ten rankings.
On the second day, the track highlight came from Luke Fagan (Michael Afilaka) who won the 200m in 20.88/1.5 after a fast 20.67 semi where the wind was unknown.
In the BMC races on Saturday night, stronger winds spoiled performances and the highlight came from Sarah McCormack, who took 30 seconds off her PB to win the 5000m with 15:49.03.
CAU Results: http://www.thepowerof10.info/results/resultslookup.aspx
BMC Results: http://www.britishmilersclub.com/content/bmcitemdisplay.aspx?itemid=819
Bedford Results: http://ukcau.athletics-uk.org/results/CAU_Results_2012.pdf
Dubnica, Slovakia, August 26
Britain’s top ranked 100m runner Dwain Chambers (Daniel Plummer) finished third in the 100m in a fast 10.12 Steve Lewis (Dan Pfaff) was third in the Pole Vault with 5.50m.
Results: http://www.atletickevysledky.sk/online/index.html
Diamond League, Lausanne, August 23
As well as Robbie Grabarz’s British Record there were other top class performances including Steven Lewis (Dan Pfaff) who achieved his second best ever height of 5.80m to finish third in the same height as the winner Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie.
Another Olympic finalist Lawrence Okoye (John Hillier) also had one of his best ever competitions to finish second with 65.27m, close behind Olympic bronze medallist and former Olympic champion Gerd Kanter’s 65.79.
Okoye beat the Olympic silver medallist Ehsan Hadadi.
In the 400m hurdles, Perri-Shakes Drayton (Chris Zah) was very close to her PB of 53.77 with a 53.83 which placed her third and ahead of Olympic champion Natalya Antyukh World junior 800m silver medallist Jessica Judd (Jeremy Freeman) won the under 20 1500m race in 4:14.38.
Martyn Rooney (Nick Dakin) was sixth in the 400m in 45.52.
Linz, Austria, August 20
Hannah England (Bud Baldaro) showed good end of season form to win the 800m in a PB 1:59.66 to go third in the UK rankings.
Larence Clarke (Malcolm Arnold) was third in the 110m hurdles in 13.45 while Lawrence Okoye (Hiller) was third in the discus with 64.25m. JJ Jegede (Peter Stanley) was third in the long jump with 7.90m/0.0.
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