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Young Athletes match held at Wrexham 25th June
There was a thrilling finish to the young athletes match held at
Wrexham. Trailing Deeside by 0.5 points going into the relays, victories
in 6 of the 9 relays saw LPS triumph with 321.5 points, from Deeside
(316), Stockport
(239) and Trafford (203.5).
Harry Doran's preformance of 23.2 sec in U17 200 metres and Joel
Hutchinson's 4.49 metres in the U13 Long Jump, saw both athletes receive
athletes of the match awards. Emma Bowen comfortably won the U15 girl's
800 metres in 2.22.6 (grade 2 AAA
standard) and there were welcome returnd to compettive action for a
number of the U17 girls. Lauren Cummings was 1st in the B' shot and
Emily Carr 1st in the B' Javelin. Lucy Holcroft achieved graded
standards in both Triple Jump and 100 metres, whilst Kate Hughes
achieved a seaon's best in the 300 metres ((45.2 sec) Becci Keegan again
contributed vital points with victories in the U17 Javelin and Shot
Putt. LPS goes into the final match, again at Wrexham, in 4th place in
the league.
Report Wally Bridson
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The athletics world has been abuzz this week with talk of a
resurgence of British 800m running following the clutch of 20 year
olds who have recently posted sub-1.46 times and include Liverpool
Pembroke Sefton sensation, Michael Rimmer. Waxing lyrical the
legendary Steve Cram called these `happy days'. Not unexpectedly
Rimmer did not appear in the Northern Senior and Under 20
Championships at Manchester's Sport City. However, several club
colleagues did turn out.
Best performance came from Ormskirk's
Mark Grimshaw who took silver in the U20 400m in what for him is a
modest time of 49.85. Phil Taylor was sharp in the Senior event with
47.85 but this only carried him to sixth. Anne-Marie Pennington was
a delighted U20 Javelin bronze medal winner with 33.66m. Ann Taylor
was sixth in the same event with 27.86m. In the same age group
another member of the LPS successful throwing squad, Natalie Walsh
threw the discus 36.74m in what became the favourite position of the
weekend, sixth. The most frustrating performance came from U20 Mark
Leicester who could only manage 6.32m and fifth in the Long Jump. If
he could have replicated the previous week's leap of 6.73m he would
have comfortably taken gold.
Report Charles Gains |
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Rimmer joins the elite 11 June
The British Milers Club promote high
quality races with the purpose of raising standards in British
middle distance running. Watford was such an occasion and local hero
Michael Rimmer seized his opportunity. The Liverpool Pembroke Sefton
athlete tracked the Notts AC 800m star Richard Hill through a
blistering pace to clock a sensational time of 1.45.7 only a few
yards short of his rival. Together they both cracked the sub-1.46
barrier, the official elite level of performance. A huge 3 seconds
is hacked off Rimmer`s best and propels him past many senior
contemporaries. He now belongs to a small group of talented 20 year
olds who are exciting the athletics world with talk of a new Coe,
Cram Ovett era. The European Championships in Gothenberg loom in
August and Rimmer will be considering the trials in a few weeks
time.
At a more mundane level Liverpool
Pembroke Sefton were at Wigan for a Junior Athletic League match.
This is the type of competition Rimmer graduated through. LPS have
been trouncing local clubs in the Young Athletes League whilst
simultaneously scooping up Athlete of the Match awards. Their older
colleagues replicated this with an easy match victory of 50 points
and with Mark Leicester long jumping 6.73m and Becci Keegan throwing
a the Javelin 32.03m plus a might hammer heave of 37.39m walked off
with the respective coveted Athlete of the Match T-shirts. Other
eye-catching winning performances came from Mark Grimshaw at 400m in
50.1, Liam Wignall a 11.99 Triple Jump, Natalie Walsh in the Discus
with 35.30m and Lauren Cummings an 8.71m Shot Putt.
Report Charles Gains |
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