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Natasha Phillips gets the U20 Q standard over 5000M running 16:19:22. Goes No1 in terms of rankings for the season & that was her debut on the track.
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Will Barnicoat gets the Q standard for the EU23 5000M running 13:47:70. Ned Potter and James Kingston just missed the target running 13:53 & 13:54 respectively. Two U20's also got the standard in this race, Conan Harper ran 13:58:37 & George Couttie ran 14:11:74Comment
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Yemi Mary John ran a new pub of 51.20 to make it to the NCAA finals.Comment
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Well done to her! With that performance, YMJ goes from 10th up to 6th on the UK U23 all time list. -
Fantastic performance and that was for 4th place in the race! The 400m times for the NCAA qualifiers insane in the West. Rashidat Adeleke Irish record of 49.54 and her time isn’t the fastest with Britton Wilson running 49.51s in another quarter final.
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In the EA challenger meeting late last night Joshua Dickinson got the EU23 qualifying standard for 5000M running 13:46:94Comment
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One I missed yesterday at the BMC meet was in the 1500M Womens "B" race where Jessica Lark an U17 improved her PB by 3 seconds running 4:21.70. Another Trevor Painter Alumni, a bit of a production line starting to build there.Comment
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Day 2 of the English Athletics Senior & U20 Combined Events Championships and the weather is more typically Manchunian than it was yesterday - cloudier, 4 - 5 degrees cooler and with unhelpful winds for the 110m hurdlers in the decathlon. Not that this is stopping Sammy Ball... He went 6/6 for winning events in the U20 decathlon, crossing the line in 14.50 despite the biting -1.2m/s headwind, and he added almost a 100 points to his lead over 2nd placed Irishman Finn O'Neill, who was 3rd in the same hurdles heat in 15.31.Comment
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Pawlett 5.84 LJ. If she can't get over 1.70/6.00, I can't see the point of her doing the heptathlon. A move to the sprint hurdles looks more logical.Comment
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Blimey CAML, next you will be suggesting, what did you say of me, getting everyone to do 400 or Triple Jump hahahahaha
I refer you to my recent post on multi events noting how some very top UK female athletes [Tessa Sanderson, Sally Gunnell, Jaz Sawyers] started out in the 'combined events' before achieving great things in a single discipline.Last edited by carterhatch; 28-05-23, 12:43.
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Right, just plugged in Sammy Ball's current points up to and including the discus, then added his PBs in the pole vault (4.40m - 2023), javelin (48.50m - 2023) and 1500m (4:28.98 - 2021) - and you end up with a new UK U20 record of 7897 points!Comment
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Sammy Ball has very similar attributes to Dean Macey. I'd forgotten how good Macey was between 1999-2001, the main difference, fingers crossed, is Ball seems to have a body that can withstand the demands put on it.Comment
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Yes, and similar profile to Kevin Mayer, I think. Sammy has a better 100m and SP at 19, but Mayer had a better 1500 and much better PV and LJ. It seems as though Sammy's PV and JT are improving fairly quickly. His DT and LJ are the ones that have stalled. I think he has big capacity for improvement in the LJ and PV, especially.Comment
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and let's enjoy this performance, as we never know, especially with male combined events, what the future holds... I cite Tim Duckworth, who seems to have vanished, and Sam Talbot, if it were not for injuries would have rewritten a few age-category UK lists himself before today ...Last edited by carterhatch; 28-05-23, 13:51. -
@Mikka
If Dean Macey could win global medals and get very close to the Olympic podium with a body that was largely held together by what seemed like duct tape, super glue and sheer bloody-mindedness at times, then I can see Ball doing so too.
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1:46.56 800m PB for Samuel Reardon in France today - along with his 46.33 400m this year, he's someone who is in theory equipped to be a scarily good 800m runner. I assume he's targeting EU23s 800m and 4x400m this year.Comment
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Sammy Ball equal pb in the PV 4.40. 6580 after 8 events.Comment
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Bit down in the javelin though.Comment
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Then 46.17 in the javelin and is on 6580 points with the 1500m to go... still on track to break the UK U20 Decathlon record.
Adding the scores he's collected and adding his 1500m PB to a multi event calculator, Ball would total 7863 points.
Add the personal bests of the events he slightly under-performed at over the two days (110m hurdles, discus and javelin (I missed his javelin PB from earlier this year)) and his score would be... 8016!Last edited by RunUnlimited; 28-05-23, 18:06.Comment
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Mia McIntosh seems to be struggling * a bit this year. She just ran 13.81 in Grosseto, which is just outside her SB, and was last in the race. She just looks a bit heavy legged to me.Comment
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Perhaps the knock to her knee she took in the World U20 heats that forced Mia to withdraw before the semi-finals last year, was a more serious one than it initially looked and has been harder to comeback from than expected? -
Possibly, or perhaps it just caused her to miss a lot of training. She seemed to be clearing the hurdles OK, just a bu5 leaden looking in between,
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