Competing at Tallin in the European U20 Championships the two Sussex athletes finished seventh in their qualifying groups, with Brighton's Liz Korczak securing a place in the final the following day.
Gemma Tutton, from Lewes, who is still in the U17 age group, had her first taste of major international competition and did well to clear 3.90m. Her seventh place finish, left Tutton just outside of the top 12 across two qualifying pools, so she did not progress to the final.
In the javelin, Korczak, also making her debut in this standard of competition, was seventh in qualifying, with a throw of 48.37m, and this took her through to the final on Sunday where she finished eleventh with a throw of 48.08m, which was a great result.
ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIPS
Competing over the weekend at Bedford, in the English senior championships Sussex athletes collected two Golds and a Silver medal.
Crawley’s George Turner continued to improve, adding five centimetres to his previous best to take the gold medal clearing 5.25m. Meanwhile, after a great battle with the 100m winner, Andrew Roberts from Sale, Toby Harries (Brighton Phoenix) took the gold medal in the 200m race in a season’s best of 20.82s.
County record holder Chris Scott (Southampton) took second place in the discus throw to go home with a silver medal after throwing 54.44m.
Just missing a medal in the triple jump was Crawley’s Mame Sow who is the county long jump champion. She was a little below her best leaping 12.42m to place fourth.
Crawley athletes Morgan Hayward and Holly Turner both made finals with Hayward placing seventh in the triple jump with a leap of 14.58m and Holly, the sister of pole vault champion George, placed eighth in the 400m clocking 55.44s after placing third in her heat in 55.13s.