Strong Start to 2003 Indoor Campaign

The 2003 Indoor season got into its stride in the second weekend of January with the Welsh Championships in Cardiff and some quality sprint hurdles fields in conjunction with a National squad gathering in Manchester. With the British indoor season climaxing with the World Indoors in March, there was some fine early displays.

Diane Allahgreen Britain's number one sprint hurdler opened her season with 8.38 victory in Manchester. Behind her there were good performances for Helen Worsey, narrowly outside her 2002 pb with 8.45 and Tamsin Stephens who recorded her best ever time 8.51 seconds.
There were also good pb's for Junior Catherine Crawford [8.78] and Ruth Dales [8.87] whilst Stef Pullinger [8.78] and Caroline Pearce [8.85] also recorded good starts.
In the men's 60 hurdles Dominic Girdler and Rob Newton went below the eight second mark in their first outings of the season [7.92 and 7.97 respectively] with Duncan Malins just outside this mark with 8.04.

Meanwhile in the Welsh Championships, the Principality's number one female sprint hurdler, Rachel King triumphed in 8.41. The Men's title went for the first time to Matthew Butler who took the title with 8.39.

13th January 2003