Age Group Record for Child at Sheffield

Eilidh Child at last captured sole posession of the u17 British Age record for the 300m hurdles as she shaved 1/100th of a second off the previous record which she jointly held with Rachel Kay. The Scot has shown much promise over the last two years and already has a 59.8 clocking to her name in her debut 400m hurdles in a mixed race earlier this summer.

In defending the AAA u17 300m hurdles title at Sheffield, Child was conmfortably ahead of ESAA Champion Ellen Howath Brown, with the Bronze being taken in a new pb of 43.60 by Sarah Adams infront of Scholls silvre medalist Cara Pain.

There was also a highly impressive performance in the youth 400m hurdles with Craig Crawford Glanville completeing the AA u17/ESA double with a 53.25 victory a time that lifts him to 6th on the all time UK lists being almost half a second better than his English schools winning time.Gateshead Harriers team mate Kieran Flannery also improved his best to clock 53.57 for 10th on the all time list as Edward Harrison again suffered disapointment at Sheffield. The Schools International winner won his heat with 54.22 but failed to finish the final, leaving Enfield & Haringay's Ogadima Duru to take the bronze with 55.19.

In the youths sprint hurdles there was another double winner with Liverpool's Craig France taking his second Sheffield title. His 13.16 winning time was just outside his legal best time of 13.10 but held off Charnwoods Midland Champion Dan Davies who also pr'd with 13.23. There were also new bests for the 3rd and 4th place finishers though Dan Maynard 13.20 and Rickey Alexis Smith 13.27 achieved these performances in qualifying.

There was a hurdle double for Carmathan Harriers with Heather Jones winning the Intermediate 100H and Daniel Evans taking the boys 80m hurdles title. Jones, 11.30, repeated her schools international victory over Kylie Robbilliard, who finished just 1/100th infront of Clare Cooper who took a quater of a second off her previous best despite running into a 1.3 headwind in the final.

Evans' victory was a much closer thing, sharing the winning time of 11.50 with Bradley Humphries of West Somerset College, with Gary Lam only 2/100ths further back. Schools bronze medalist Alex al Ameen finished fourth.

A second title went north of the border to Scotland as well with Natalie Doyle of the Glsagow School of Sport clocking 11.20 just 1/100th slower than her winning time inthe Schools Internationa in Belfast two weeks previously. She was followed by the Ferrybank AC pairing of Kayln Sheehan and Mairead Murphy with Havering's Lisa Schofield in 4th

u17 Women's 75m Hurdles
1	Heather Jones	11.30
2	Kylie Robbillird	11.52
3	Clare Cooper	11.53
4	Harriet Robinson	11.60
5	Claire Jones	11.70
6	Vicky Garrard	11.87
7	Zara Hohn	11.91
8	Christina Waters	12.04
	wind	-1.3

 

u17 Women's 300m Hurdles
1	Eilidh Child	41.97
2	Ellen Howarth Brown	43.10
3	Sarah Adam	43.60
4	Cara Pain	44.95
5	Tahlia Gray	45.45
6	Rebecca Long	45.81
7	Avril Jackson	46.45
8	Emily Bonnett	47.40

 

u17 Men's 100m Hurdles
1	Craig France	13.16
2	Dan Maynard	13.23
3	Dan Davis	13.36
4	Ricky Alexis Smith	13.41
5	Martin Clanahan	13.46
6	Joe Tenny	13.54
7	Robert James	13.71
8	Charlie Kavanagh	13.73
	wind	-0.7

u17 Men's 400m Hurdles
1	Craig Crawford Glanville	53.25
2	Kieran Flannery	53.57
3	Ogadima Duru	55.19
4	Richard Herdsman	55.91
5	Antoine Allen	56.14
6	Denis Finnegan	56.66
7	Tom Zbaraski	57.69

 

u15 Girl's 75m Hurdles
1	Natalie Doyle	11.20
2	Kalyn Sheehan	11.52
3	Mairead Murphy	11.66
4	Lisa Schofield	11.73
5	Karla Drew	11.80
6	Beth Heaton	11.91
7	Harriet Abbiss	11.93
8	Nicola McSweeney	11.96
	wind	-0.7

 

u15 Boy's 80m Hurdles
1	Daniel Evans	11.50
2	Bradley Humphries	11.50
3	Gary Lam	11.52
4	Alex Al-Ameen	11.67
5	Lascelle Harriot	11.88
6	Andrew Smith	12.07
7	Nicolas Hunt	12.18
8	Michael Baker	12.38
	wind

 

 

19 August 2003