Hercules Wimbledon AC round-up: U13 girls win gold in relay event
Hercules Wimbledon Athletic Club’s U13 girls won gold in the 4x200m at the Surrey Combined and Relay Championships at the David Weir Leisure Centre in Carshalton, writes George Mallett.
The quartet of Florence Foster, Amelia Barnes, Beatrice Eminson and Freya McAndie improved the U13 club record by more than 10 seconds to 1:57.36, a mark that dated back to 2018.
Also breaking club records were the same age group’s 4x100m team. The trio of Barnes, Eminson and McCandie returned with Lucy Whorton also running as they posted a time of 55.73, good enough for fourth on the day.
Foster’s absence from the 4x100m team was in part due to her participation and third place finish in the U13 girls pentathlon. Given her sprinting exploits it is testament to her multi-event potential that her highest-scoring discipline was the shot put (6.49m).
James Fraser won bronze in the U13 boys pentathlon. Fraser’s biggest points were in the 75m hurdles (14.66), followed by the 800m (2:28.29).
Decathlete defending champion Mark Andrews took silver as he lost out to Nathan Standing of Bracknell AC. The latter scored 3,638 points across the 10 events to Andrews’ 3.324. Andrews secured his biggest total in the high jump (1.62m).
Francesca Ellis collected bronze in the U17 women’s heptathlon. Across the seven events she excelled in the 80m hurdles (13.62), securing 607 of her 2,662 points. Ellis was followed in fourth and fifth respectively by club-mates Visne Bariman and Anabelle Spasova.
Andrew Penney ran an electric 14:06.08 to finish second in the elite race at last week’s Tracksmith London Twilight 5000m in Battersea Park. It moved him one place higher on the Hercules’ all-time list to sixth.
His performance over 12-and-a -half laps adds to PBs this summer across 1,500m and 3,000m. He is fifth in the all-time rankings in both events.
Alex Milne was fifth in 14:27.85. The GB-international ultra-runner broke a nine-year-old PB on his eighth attempt at bettering it. Milne springboards to 17th on the all-time rankings.
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