Telford Games - in pictures
[gallery] Records tumbled in the Telford Games organised by Telford Athletic Club, with 23 new best performances being set in the 22-year-old meeting. Records tumbled in the Telford Games organised by Telford Athletic Club, with 23 new best performances being set in the 22-year-old meeting. Telford AC's Hayley Rubery – from Meretown, near Newport – set two best performances as the under-20 athlete won the pole vault with 3.30m and the discus with 39.52m at the Telford Stadium. She has had an excellent season and is nationally ranked seventh in the discus and eighth in the pole vault. Another young Telford athlete, Becky Fagan from Albrighton – silver medalist in this year's English Schools – set a new meeting record in the shot with a putt of 10.64m. And two other host club athletes were also impressive in the under-15 age group. Alexis Newton-French won a very competitive 75m hurdles in 11.4secs, a new meeting record and well within a AAA grade one standard. Amy Bowen, from Waters Upton, near Telford, scored a sprint double running 12.6 (100m) and 26.5 in the 200m. Full report in today's Shropshire Star [24link]
Records tumbled in the Telford Games organised by Telford Athletic Club, with 23 new best performances being set in the 22-year-old meeting.
Telford AC's Hayley Rubery – from Meretown, near Newport – set two best performances as the under-20 athlete won the pole vault with 3.30m and the discus with 39.52m at the Telford Stadium.
She has had an excellent season and is nationally ranked seventh in the discus and eighth in the pole vault.
Another young Telford athlete, Becky Fagan from Albrighton – silver medalist in this year's English Schools – set a new meeting record in the shot with a putt of 10.64m.
And two other host club athletes were also impressive in the under-15 age group. Alexis Newton-French won a very competitive 75m hurdles in 11.4secs, a new meeting record and well within a AAA grade one standard.
Amy Bowen, from Waters Upton, near Telford, scored a sprint double running 12.6 (100m) and 26.5 in the 200m.
Welsh international Adele Nicholl, top ranked in the country in shot and discus this year, set a new meeting record in the shot which she won with 14.02m and was just four centimetres outside the previous best as she threw the discus 40.14m.
Shrewsbury AC's Hollie Williamson, another athlete who has had an excellent season, won the under-13 girls long jump with a leap of 5m, putting her second in the country this season, beating a mark set back in 1992 by Kellie Bailey of Telford AC.
She also set a new mark in the high jump, where she is ranked fifth nationally, with a clearance of 1.50m, improving 20 centimetres on the previous best set by Bethan Partridge from Bridgnorth in 2002.
She also won the 70m hurdles in 11.8, another event where she is nationally ranked third.
Bridgnorth's Lucy Edmondson scored an impressive under-13 girls sprint double as she won the 100m in 13.0 and 200m in 28.1. She is ranked fourth in the country in the 100m.
It must be many years since Shropshire could boast four performances in the top five in the country in the same age group.
By PAUL SANDERSON
