Multi-eventer stars at a top-class BUCS event in Sheffield along with hurdler Daniel Goriola in a UK round-up which also includes a W50 record on the roads and a masters inter-area match
BUCS ATHLETICS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS, Sheffield, February 23-25
Glasgow-bound pentathlete Abigail Pawlett got a great send off for the World Indoors when she won the hurdles in a PB 8.17 which was backed up by a 14.16m shot PB which got her second spot at the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Indoor Champs.
Daniel Goriola won the 60m hurdles in 7.72 to go second all-time in the under-20 age group to Jon Ridgeon’s 7.68 which was set almost 40 years ago.
Daniel Goriola wins the hurdles (BUCS)
Brooke Ironside won the 200m in a championships best of 23.37 while European under-20 400m hurdles finalist Emily Newnham improved her 400m championships record from 53,18 to 53.06.
European cross-country bronze medallist Alex Millard won the women’s 3000m in 9:06.33 to improve world silver medallist and Commonwealth champion Lisa Dobriskey’s 19-year-old record.
Triple jumper Archie Yeo added the BUCS title to the UK title he won last week with a 15.73m PB.
Another to gain the British and BUCS double was pole vaulter Owen Heard who cleared 5.33m.
Former European under-20 and under-23 800m medallist Ethan Hussey showed good endurance to win the men’s 3000m in a PB 8:05.22.
Tyler Bilyard, who ran his first sub-four minute mile earlier in the month and then ran in the World University Games cross-country, finishing seventh, won a slow and tactical 1500m.
Men: 60: 1 S Baffour (De Montfort (BUCS)) 6.68; 2 T Panton (Brunel (BUCS)) 6.75; 3 D Moore (Birmingham (BUCS)) 6.77; 4 K Awe (East London (BUCS)) 6.78; 5 O Barrow (Loughborough (BUCS)) 6.82; 6 C Nealon-Richards (Sheffield Hallam (BUCS)) 6.83; 7 S Onigbanjo (Nottingham (BUCS)) 6.88; 8 S Black (Birmingham (BUCS)) 6.91. Ht01: 1 K Awe (East London (BUCS)) 6.92. Ht02: 1 O Barrow (Loughborough (BUCS)) 6.94. Ht03: 1 S Baffour (De Montfort (BUCS)) 6.73. Ht04: 1 C Nealon-Richards (Sheffield Hallam (BUCS)) 6.87. Ht06: 1 S Black (Birmingham (BUCS)) 6.87; 2 S Anyaogu (Loughborough (BUCS)) 6.93. Ht08: 1 D Moore (Birmingham (BUCS)) 6.92. Ht10: 1 S Onigbanjo (Nottingham (BUCS)) 6.94. Ht14: 1 R Mostyn (Edge Hill (BUCS)) 6.91. SF1: 1 S Baffour (De Montfort (BUCS)) 6.73; 2 T Panton (Brunel (BUCS)) 6.84; 3 O Barrow (Loughborough (BUCS)) 6.84; 4 A Azu (Cardiff Met (BUCS)) 6.92. SF2: 1 S Black (Birmingham (BUCS)) 6.82; 2 S Onigbanjo…
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