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The North East Regional round of the English Schools Combined Events Championships was held at Costello Stadium in Hull at the weekend. Competing against teams from North Yorks, West Yorks, Humberside, Durham and Northumberland and following excellent individual and team performances, five club athletes have qualified for the finals in September.

 

In the Intermediate Girls Heptathlon Lucy Hodgson (far right) and Kelly Clark (2nd left) both had a successful weekend achieving PB’s along the way. Lucy in the javelin with 21.75m, 200m 28.8 & 800m with 2:42.1 and Kelly in the long jump with 5.05m, 200m 26.5 & 800m with 2:39.3 The team finished in first place overall by 897 points and individually Kelly finished in 3rd place and Lucy in 7th place.

The Junior Girls Pentathlon produced an exciting climax. The S Yorks team were lying in 2nd place by 10 points to the Durham team prior to the start of the 800m. All four girls ran a fantastic race eventually winning the competition by over 200 points. Amy Hodgson (2nd right) won the event overall with a new pentathlon PB of 2801 points, also achieving  PB’s of 5.14m in the long jump, 2:39.5 in the 800m and an outdoor PB of 1.48 in the high jump. Olivia Noteman (far right) also had  some good performances including a shot putt of 8.04m and long jump of 4.67m finishing in 14th place overall.

In the Junior Boys competition our only competitor Joe Lancaster turned out some impressive performances, in particular in the long jump with a 5.63m PB and an 800m of 2:02.9 which moved him up from 9^th place to finish 3rd overall qualifying for the finals as an individual

 

All of the athletes are now looking forward to representing South Yorkshire and City of Sheffield AC against the best multi-eventers in the country at the finals on the weekend of 18^th & 19^th September at Northwood Stadium in Stoke.