Worthing’s *Alice Howie has made a habit of winning hammer titles at the English Schools’ championships, and she continued her streak by successfully defending her Inter Girls title with a throw of 57.56m, marking her third victory in a row.
Alice was our solo gold medallist on day one, but there was plenty of podium action elsewhere for the Sussex team, and it was all in the field events. Both our Junior Boys discus entries made the podium; Brighton and Hove’s Noah Walker won silver with a throw of 41.94m, and his teammate Archie Oates (CRA) took bronze with 37.96m.
For the Inter Boys’ Barney Hastings (B&H) added to the county's first-day medal haul with a bronze medal after launching his javelin out to 57.22m.
Day two of the Champs began with a silver medal for Brighton’s Dulcie Yelling in the Senior Girls' javelin with a throw of 43.98m. It was an excellent result, especially after a season of injury, and it was also an upgrade from last year’s bronze medal.
'Dominance' might be Crawley athlete *Braimoh Busari’s middle name! He went into the Inter Boys pole vault competition as the UK’s top-ranked under-17 and more than delivered with a nine-centimetre personal best of 4.50m, to win the title by a massive 30 centimetres.
Separated by the width of a running vest, Senior Girl Eleanor Strevens (EBR) edged ahead of Cumbria’s Sarah Smith to win the 800m crown by 0.07 seconds in a hard-fought race, clocking 2:09.36.
B&H’s Alexander Riley claimed a glorious 1500m gold in his last-ever Schools race. In a tactical run, it took a sprint finish for him to take the title in 3:54.59, an upgrade from last year's silver!
There must have been something in the air, as the 1500m was the event in which Sussex Schools’ won the most medals.
First-year under-15 Isabella Buchanan of HY AC ran a four-second PB of 4:35.86 to secure silver in the Junior Girls race.
Senior Girl Stephanie Shaw (CRA) captured the bronze medal with a time of 4:27.71.
Brighton’s Julieana Walsh also won bronze in the 1500m Inter Girls Steeplechase final with a five-second personal best of 5:09.39, while her teammate Alice Cox (CRA) placed 4th with a two-second PB of 5:09.73.
George Gilbert (B&H) earned bronze in the Junior Boys 1500m race with a time of 4:09.71.
*Alice and Braimoh have been selected to represent England in the Schools' home nations international next weekend. Huge congratulations to you both.
Top 8 results:
4th place:
PV - Ava Hayes (LEW) IG 3.35m
PV - Beth Boyes (LEW) JG 2.85m
300m – Nathan Burge (EBR) 37.17
5th place:
TJ - 5th Amber Purcell (B&H) SG 11.19m
3000m - Miles Waterworth (PHX)SB 8:31.72
4x100m Junior Girls Relay
6th place:
PV Leo Woolgar-Golds (CRA) (SB) 4.00m
TJ_ Pelumi Dosumu (Sxs)
(SB) 13.52m
TJ - Jaiten Best (B&H) IG 10.97m
100mH - Jessica Bliss (B&H) SG 14.88
LJ - Lucas Bowen (TON)JB 5.83
Jav - Harry Long (CRA) IB 54.58
PV- Milo Hilborne (CRA) JB 3.30m
7th place:
Discus – Adam Churchyard (EBR) IB 39.70m
8th place:
3k - Freda Pearce (EBR) IG 9:58.45
300m – Seb Reynolds (TON) 38.45
LJ - Madeleine Way (CRA) SG 5.51m
1500m – Fin Lumber-Fry (JB) 4:20.28
4x100m Junior Boys Relay
Only the Top eight athletes in each event score, but many of our athletes delivered impressive performances. We will not know until later in the week if Sussex Schools has achieved any team trophies. Check out the full results here: https://entry4sports.co.uk/#/results/617
Special thanks to the Schools' team managers who made this event possible.
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Thanks to Andy Cox - AC_Phots - for the wonderful pictures.