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England Athletics Indoor Championships 2008 Print E-mail
Friday, 29 February 2008
The championships were held at the Birmingham Indoor track on 23rd and 24th February. We had 11 athletes taking part and 1 gold and 2 silver medals were won and 4 club records broken.

U15
Chris Grayson won silver in the final of the 800m in a time of 2:04.89. In a close finish he was beaten by just 0.35 seconds.Abigail Bishell made the semi final of the 200m finishing in 5th in 26.71 secs. Kelly Clark also made it through to a semi final, in the 60m, finishing 7th in 8.34 secs. In the 60m hurdles Emily Cox was 5th in her heat in 9.91 secs and in the boys 60m heats Cameron Burrows was 6th in 7.86 secs.

U17
There were 3 club records broken by two athletes. Tesni Ward won gold in the shot putt and also broke her own club record with a throw of 12.66m. Carys Hall broke 2 club records. In the heats of the 200m she set a time of 25.69 secs, and in finishing 7th in the 60m she finished in 7.85 secs. All the more impressive as this is her first year as an U17 and she was competing against girls a year older than her.
In the mens 200m final Dannish Khan was a creditable 5th in 23.68 seconds, having set a PB of 23.15 seconds in the heats. Dannish also set a time of 7.36 seconds in the heats of the 60m.

U20
Amy Hill took silver in the shott putt and broke her own club record for this event with a throw of 14.21 metres. Todd Marshall made it through to the semi-finals of both the 60m and 200m. In the 60m he was 7th in 7.14 seconds and in the 200m he was 3rd in 22.67 seconds. Ricky Reeves finished 4th in his heat of the 60m in 7.19 seconds. Jerome McIntosh completed his 60m heat in 7.77 seconds.

 
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