Herne Hill Harriers round-up: Phoebe Anderson sets another club senior women’s record on 10,000m debut

Phoebe Anderson’s amazing USA track season continued with another Herne Hill Harriers’ senior women’s record on her 10,000m debut where she clocked 32:54.50.

In doing so she finished third in the Collegiate Women’s race at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships at Princeton University on Saturday, writes Geoff Jerwood.

Her new mark lowers New Zealand international Georgie Grgec’s previous club track record at this distance by more than a minute. Grgec herself has been in good recent form and is lined up to race at the big Night of the 10,000m PBs event at Highgate later this month.

New York student Anderson then had the legs to place second in the 5,000m the following day with an impressive time of 15:55.14 to score more points for her Columbia University team.

Also in USA Collegiate competition, Myles Copeland-Naulty won his 200m heat at the NJCAA Region I track and field championships in Mesa, Arizona last Tuesday with 21.02.

This is less than a tenth of a second outside his recent PB and he was again close to a long-standing club senior men’s record. He followed up on Thursday by placing third in the final in 21.04 and on the same day also ran 48.23 to finish fourth in the 400m.

The British Universities and Colleges Sports (BUCS) Championships were held at SportCity in Manchester over the weekend.

In the women’s shot on Monday Cerys Aboagye threw a PB of 12.55m in qualifying and then went on to finish sixth in the final with 12.66m to improve her new best distance.

In the same women’s shot final Zara Acton placed eighth with 11.70m for a season’s best throw. Acton had also finished 11th in the discus final earlier in the weekend with 38.55m.

In the men’s triple jump qualifying rounds Ignatius Abebrese leapt to a season’s best of 14.24m on Saturday, but was then unable to replicate or improve on this mark when coming 10th in the final the next day (13.95m). His season’s best of 6.56m in the long jump qualifying rounds was insufficient to qualify for a very strong final.

In the women’s javelin on Monday Brunel University student Saidhbhe Byrne from Ireland was second in the B final with a PB of 39.40m.

In the men’s sprint race heats, the 200m saw Shanpy Sealy finish fourth in a PB of 22.65 and in the 400m Nathan Latigo was fourth with 51.31. Neither were able to advance into their semi-finals.

The Race for Victory Cardiff 5km was held in Whitchurch on Sunday with Herne Hill’s Cardiff University medical student Liv Stillman running a PB by 17 seconds with a time of 17:27.

This performance placed her in the top 20 females in an international field based on chip times.

Earlier on Sunday at the Copenhagen Marathon Sophie Gunning ran 2:59.19. It was a little outside her PB but was a very good return after only four weeks of marathon specific preparation.

In achieving her target of sub-three hours for this race she secured her qualification for next year’s Boston Marathon in the USA.

Also on Sunday at the Victoria Park Half Marathon, evergreen Jonathan Ratcliffe was 13th overall in a big field of runners and was the winner of the M55 age category in 81:32.