Taunton Preparatory School student Emily Miller has been crowned World Champion after winning 5 Golds and 1 Silver medal at the World Triathle and Biathle Championships in St Petersburg Florida, USA. 10-year-old Emily qualified for the World Championships after gaining first place in both Triathle (shoot/swim/run x2) and Biathle (run/swim x2) at the European Championships in Madeira in June. Last...
Athletics
A sixteen year old javelin thrower from Burgess Hill Girls has been selected to join the British Athletics Youth Talent Programme. Peanut Meekings will link up with the 21 Youth Talent Programme (YTP) for the season and is the first stage of the Performance Pathway for young athletes in England aged 16. The programme aims to give athletes the opportunity to learn, train and develop the necessary...
Ten athletes from Burgess Hill Girls recently represented Sussex in the National Prep Schools’ Athletics Championships in Birmingham. After competing in the Sussex qualifiers in June, the athletes from the school were selected to represent Sussex at the Alexander International Athletics Stadium. Three of the girls competed in throwing events, Tiajoy Joseph in the Javelin, Tilly Rowark and Bronwen...
West Buckland School produced outstanding performances at the National Prep School Athletics Finals, held at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham last month, with the team breaking three national records. Eden Robinson broke the UK national U13 record for the long jump with a jump of 5.29m, and also broke the U13 national record for 200m. During the heats for the 4 x 100m relay, the West Buckland team...
Royal Masonic Girls athlete Amelia Daley jumped her way into the record books at the recent Hertfordshire County Athletics Championships. Taking part in the triple jump, Amelia jumped a distance of 11.27m, beating the record of 11.00m exactly which had stood for the last 19 years. Amelia's personal best is actually some way better than this weekend's jump, standing at 11.78m which means she is...
Bromsgrove School’s Year 8 boys’ athletics team have been crowned Midlands Champions of the ESAA Track and Field Cup. The team will now compete as one of twelve schools from over 500 initial entries at the National Final in Gateshead next month. Neil Cai and Fyodor Shaskin both achieved new personal bests in the hammer, scoring over 50 points between them. Cyrus Passman ran a personal best in the...
A pupil from Taunton School has been crowned the Somerset athletics county champion. Cerys Lee competed in the Somerset School’s Combined Events Championships last weekend, which was also open to athletes from other areas of the country. The lower sixth student and girls’ captain finished her heptathlon event with three personal bests and as the first Somerset athlete, placing her top of the...
A Wellington School pupil has been crowned the U15 England Indoor Pentathlon champion. Ollie D’Rozario won the title at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, which followed his silver medal success in the long jump three weeks earlier. The Year 10 pupil was second after the first event, finishing one hundredth of a second behind the race winner, although success in the 800m race, high jump,...