Numerous personal bests at Linwood Open Graded Meeting

13 young Harriers made the short trip to Linwood to compete at the third open graded meeting of this season. Weather conditions were good with sunshine, warm temperatures and only a slight wind, what a change to previous meeting where it had been pretty cold and windy. Harriers were represented in all sprint events ranging from 100m to 400m, middle distance (800m) and two throwing events shot put and javelin. There were a total of 7 new personal bests set by the youngsters three  alone  in the 400m sprint – Evan Cornforth (U20) 53.50, Ben O’Neil (U17) 54.25 knocking almost 2 second off his previous PB , Reed Wyper (U17) 56.15.

Evie Bartl (U15) who used this meeting as a preparation for the upcoming National Pentathlon achieved new PBs in both events she competed in- shot put 9.38m  and 800m 2.49, knocking off 9 seconds from her previous PB; in multi events terms this translates to an increase of 85 points.

Newly joined Zaya McMillan-Grant (U15) improved her shot put by over 60cm throwing a new best of 8.62m. Coach Harald Bartl had a good throwing sequence with all throws over the 8m mark and achieved a new PB of 8.59m. Master athlete Tommy Wyper (M55) had also a good javelin competition throwing a seasonal best of 25.20m.

The full  results are as follows:

Javelin: Harald Bartl (M50) 28.60m, Tommy Wyper, M55 javelin 25.20m, Zaya McMillan-Grant (U15) 16.00m, Tommi McMillan-Grant  (U17) 14. 92m, Lauren Greig (U13) 13.11m.

Shot: Evie Bartl (3.25kg) 9.38m PB, Zaya McMillan-Grant (3.25kg) 8.62m PB, Harald Bartl (6kg) 8.59m PB, Tommi McMillan-Grant (4kg) 6.82m.

100m Lone Kerr 13.71 (U17), Lauren Greig (U13) 14.13

200m: Roy Shankand (U20) 23.29, Cameron Mackie (U20) 25.68, Evan Cornforth (U20) 25.68, Ben O’Neil 26.58, Lorne Kerr 27.57, Bethany Ross 28.28, Lauren Greig 28.58

400m: Roy Shankland (U20) 51.00. Cameron Mackie (U20) 53.39, Evan Cornforth (U20) 53.50 PB, Ben O’Neil (U17) 54.25 PB, Reed Wyper (U17) 56.15 PB, Bethany Ross (U20) 62.00

8oom: Evie Bartl 2.49 PB