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Local Clubs compete well at County Champs

The worst day of weather of this early Spring season didn’t deter athletes from local clubs Cambridge & Coleridge AC, Huntingdonshire AC and Peterborough AC at the Cambridgeshire County Championships held in St Ives.

The standard of athletics was impressive, with five championship best performances from Laura Duke, Jake Bernay, Daniel Hauck, Harry Wells and Ben Kelk. Peterborough AC's Hauck made the biggest dent on the record books, throwing 47.89m to win the Under 15 Boy’s javelin.

Cambridge & Coleridge's Morgan Young had thrown 44.68m to beat Stuart Faben's mark of 44.38m - set in 1989 - before he was usurped by Hauck's effort at the next attempt.

Cambridge University's Duke warmed up for the upcoming Varsity Athletics Match against Oxford by winning the women's hammer with 45.01m, destroying the 2008 mark of 43.50m. Duke's personal best is 45.31m, a university record, and she completed a throwing treble with victories in the discus and shot putt.

Bernay, also from Peterborough, won the Under 15 Boy’s 400m in 53.18sec - dropping below the 53.7sec achieved in 2008 - and another athlete from the north of the county, King's School Wells, also entered the record books, winning the men's under-17 hammer with 51m - 34cm better than the mark set in 2004.

Cambridge & Coleridge's Kelk caught the eye on the home straight by winning the Under 20 Men’s 110m hurdles. In only his second race at the age group over the distance, he won comfortably in 14.54sec, beating James Markley's five-year-old record of 14.8sec, and then followed it up with 100m victory too.

Meanwhile, Hunts AC came away with seven gold medals at the County Champs, with 16 year old Lily Seach at the very top and becoming the club’s golden girl with two first places in the Under 17’s 200m and 300m.

Jonathan Edwards continued his good run of form with a gold medal in the Under 20 Men’s hammer throw followed up by a silver medal and a personal best in the shot putt.

In the Under 15 Girl’s 800m, Katie Scholey followed the leaders until the final 200m when she unleashed a sprint finish which saw her almost three seconds clear by the race’s end, with Hannah Giglio rising to the occasion in the same age category by snatching first place in the shot putt by three centimetres.

Jordan Gillbanks won his third 400m race in as many weekends, taking the Under 17 Men’s gold medal by over a second thanks to a very strong finish, while Christian Roberts claimed first place in the Senior Men’s 400m hurdles, winning by 0.6 seconds.

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