On the first Saturday of September Sussex's leading under-15 and under-20 athletes travelled to Horspath, for the last South of England Inter County Championships fixture of the season.
There were solid performances and several personal bests plus two individual victories for Sussex athletes.
Eastbourne's Bryn Smith won the under-20 200m in 21.82 seconds and Brighton under-17, Lizzie Korczak, competing as an under-20, launched her javelin out to 43.33m for first place. This was a near four metre improvement for Korczak with the heavier implement, and takes her into seventh spot on the under 20-UK rankings this year.
Her club mates Rachael Wall and Amber Purcell were both second in the under-15 girls javelin and triple jump respectively.
Overall the under-20 team came sixth and the under-15 team was 11th. Several of our leading athletes, including national U17 400m hurdles champion, Pyers Lockwood (EBR) and U15 English Schools 200m gold medallist, Bailey Smith (SYN) were forced to pull out on the day after travelling to Oxford, due to injury worries.
Eighteen counties in total competed including Kent, Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire and the mighty Essex who won both age group competitions. Each county could only select one athlete per event and just the top eight* athletes scored.
Under 15 Girls*
Javelin Rachael Wall 2nd 35.44m
Triple Jump Amber Purcell 2nd 10.87m
75mH Noa Maoundus 4th 11.55s after an 11.50s heat
LJ Hope Yelling 4th 4.97m
1500m Eleanor Strevens 5th 4:53.44
800m Mollie Barrett 7th 2:26.07
Discus Alina Hillicks 7th 28.76m
SP Emily Hudson 8th 10.14m
Under 15 Boys
80mH Jabar Busari 5th 11.71s
TJ Daniel Pascall 5th 11.70m
300m Jack Palmer 6th 39.39s after a 38.91s heat
Discus/ Hammer Ethan White 7th 33.10m/ 33.99m
LJ Kofi Obeng 8th 5.31m
Under 20 Women
Javelin Liz Korczak (U17) 1st 43.33m
400m Erin Bracknell (U17) 3rd 59.45s
100m Shania Martlew 4th 12.68s
200m Adeline Preston 5th 26.31 and 7th Long Jump 4.85m
800m Mille Dickinson (U17) 5th 2:23.1
1500m Darja Knotkova-Hanley 5th 4:59.61
Hammer Larissa Carter 7th 41.40m
Shot Brooklyn Santer Smith (U17) 8th 8.42m
Under 20 Men
200m Bryn Smith 1st 21.82s
100m Bailey Wright 3rd 10.89s after 10.81s heat
Long Jump Massi Campbell 3rd 6.20m
800m Tomer Tarragano 3rd 1:58.89
Triple Jump Louis Goffin 4th 12.53m
HJ Torin Seagrove 5th 1.80m
1500m Leo Stallard 6th 4:21.14
Shot Charlie Finnie 6th 12.11m
400mH Stevie Kasparis 7th 63:97s
Discus/ Hammer Leo Walker 8th 33.31m/ 37.02m
View the full results HERE.