Sussex records tumbled at the National Combined Events championships at Bedford over the weekend when Brighton & Hove’s Katie Garland finished fifth in the Heptathlon championship with a total of 5487 points.
This bettered Elise Lovell’s (Havant) record of 5400 set earlier in the season but windy conditions could rob her of the record.
Garland was really on song setting no less than five personal bests in the seven disciplines starting with a 14.30s clocking into a headwind in the 100m hurdles which lifts her to seventh place on the Sussex All-time best performance lists.
She followed with a 1.74m high jump and another Pb with 10.46m shot putt.
Garland finished the first day with a Pb of 24.58s in the 200m and again this mark lifts her to equal seventh on the All-time lists.
Day two started with a favourable wind and her magnificent leap of 6.10m would have been a Sussex record had not the wind been above the permissible two metres per second at 2.7mps.
Another Pb came in the penultimate event, the javelin throw where she reached 32.61m and Garland completed a remarkable two days of competition with a 2:24.42s clocking for the 800 metres.
Javelin record
A few miles away at the “Loughborough Javelin Carnival” Garland’s club mate Elizabeth Korczak, who is in her first year as an Under 17, broke fellow Brighton & Hove athletes Samantha Redd’s eighteen year old mark of 45.24m.
Korczak, who is the reigning English School’s Under 15 champion, threw a splendid 45.99m and although the current U17 javelin is lighter than the one thrown by Redd it is competition implement so will be a new record and it is the second best throw by any British U17 athlete this season.
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