7th July 2014
Weekend Update
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Swityzerland, July 6
Commonwealth silver 110m hurdles medallist Will Sharman (Je zy Maciukiewicz) won the event unchallenged in a world class 13.28/0.6.
Results: http://www.sep-olympic.ch/resisprint/
British Athletics League Premiership, Copthall, July 5
Newham and Essex Beagles won the match and Rabah Yousif Bkheit (Carol Williams) won the 400m in a League record 45.41 to go third in the Power of Ten rankings and achieve a British Athletics standard for the European Championships.
Brett Morse (Andy Brittan) won the discus with a near season’s best of 61.29m, narrowly ahead of Zane Duquemin (John Hillier) who threw 61.15m which puts him third in the Power of ten rankings.
Results: http://www.thepowerof10.info/resultsfiles/2014/105263_6002_06072014071549_bal_P_M3_2014.pdf
UK Women’s Premiership, Eton, July 5
UK 100m record holder Montell Douglas (Daniel Naphtali) ran her quickest sprint times for over five years when she won the 100m in a windy 11.33/2.6 and the 200m in a legal 23.73/0.4 Commonwealth Games-bound thrower Eden Francis (Glenys Morton) won both the shot and 16.47m and discus with 55.52m.
Another athlete preparing for Glasgow, Scottish hammer thrower Susan McKelvie won in a near season’s best 63.08m In the high jump, another preparing for the Games in Scotland, guesting Emma Pooley (Fayyaz Ahmed) won in a near PB 1.90m as she maintains her consistency.
Clare Elms improved her own world W50 record in the 1500m to 4:36.79.
Edinburgh AC took the match victory to wrap up the title.
Results: http://www.thepowerof10.info/resultsfiles/2014/103214_6002_06072014071222_Womens%20League_Prem_M3_Eton_5July2014%20Results.pdf
UK Women’s League, Division 1, Liverpool, July 6
Jade Lally won the discus with a throw of 58.25m which puts her top of the Power of Ten rankings, but fell just short of British Athletics’ European Championships standard of 59.00m.
In the 200m Margaret Adeoye (Linford Christie) narrowly beat Hayley Jones (Donald Moss) with 23.54 to 23.56.
Marilyn Okoro (Johnny Gray) who dropped out of the British Trials 800m won both the 400m in a season’s best of 53.17 and the 800m in 2:04.70.
Her 800m rival Jenny Meadows (Trevor Painter) continued her comeback trail and was fourth in the 400m in a season’s best of 54.26 and ran in the 4x400m Yamile Aldama (Frank Attoh) won the triple jump with a windy 13.35/3.1.
Enfield and Haringey won the match and the league.
UK Women’s League, Division 3, Liverpool, July 6
The world ranked number one heptathlete this year Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Mike Holmes) was able to win the high jump with 1.66m, 30 cm down on her British record height and she also won the shot with a throw of 11.72m.
She also won the triple jump with a divisonal record and windy 13.35/5.0, a distance that only three Britons have bettered and she also had a legal 12.83/0.8 which puts her in the Power of Ten top 10 for the event.
Padova, July 5
Welsh Commonwealth Games 800m selection Gareth Warburton (Darrell Maynard) improved his season’s best to 1:46.75 to third in the Power of Ten rankings.
World Indoor 60m champion Richard Kilty (Rana Reider) was a disappointed fourth in the 100m in unhelpful conditions in 10.48/ -1.3.
Results: http://www.fidal.it/risultati/2014/COD4585/RESULTSBYEVENT1.htm
Lede-Oordegem, Belgium, July 5
Needing to prove his fitness for the Commonwealth Games, Joe Thomas (Arwyn Davies) took two seconds off his season’s best for the 800m with sixth place in 1:47.03.
Steve Mitchell (James Thie) took almost four seconds off his 1500m PB with a 11th place in 3:38.27 which puts him second in the Power of ten rankings.
Results: http://liveresults.be/2014/memorialbuyle/schedule.html
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