Lytham St Anne’s junior athletes had a weekend of personal best performances starting at the Lancashire County Athletics Championships held at Stanley Park over the weekend. Saturday saw under 13 girl Clemmie Tierney achieve personal bests in the long jump with a jump of 3.69m and in the 100m with a time of 15.6. Tierney returned on Sunday to produce another personal best in the 200m with a time of 32.3s. Under 15 girl Rebecca Fisher competed in 4 events over the 2 days including 3 personal best performances of 1.35m in the high jump, 7.64m in the shot and a distance of 21.95m in the discus which was good enough to earn her 3rd place and a bronze Lancashire medal. Fisher also finished 4th in her heat of the 75m hurdles in a time of 13.8s missing out on the final by just 0.1s. Younger sister Charlotte competed in the 70m hurdles finishing 6th in her heat in a 14.5s.
In only her second ever race over the distance Maddy Markham ran a good tactical race to finish 3rd in the under 17 women’s 3000m in a personal best time of 11m 11.3s earning her a Lancashire bronze medal.
There were more excellent performances for Lytham junior athletes at Lytham Hall parkrun with 13 year old Sophie Bohannon 4th overall in 19:33, Oliver Thomson (8th in 20:33), Freddie Markham (26th in 26:04) and James McAfee (197th in 31:49) all running personal best times.
2 of Lytham’s junior athletes took part in the Beaverbrook’s 10k fun run on Sunday. 10-year-old Finlay Hughes ran exceptionally well in his first attempt at the distance to finish 5th in the under 15 category in a time of 44:26 with Morgan Pritchard 11th in 48:11.
Lytham had their usual good turnout at the Park View Junior parkrun and filled the first 4 places with Jayden Richardson (1st in 7:20), Eric Wrigley (2nd in 8:02), Archie Belfield (3rd in 8:11) and Joe Alker (4th in 8:22). Also representing Lytham were Bobby Hastwell (8th in 8:38), sisters Leoma and Rosa Gill (16th and 2oth in 9:55 and 10:35), Evie Alker (22nd in 10:46) and Joshua McAfee (59th in 13:38).
As usual lots of Lytham club runners completed the Lytham Hall parkrun on Saturday. Joe Greenwood was first overall in 17:54 and Catherine Carrdus was the first female, and third overall in a time of 18:51. Darran Ames was the next senior athlete to finish in 21:01 for 10th and Graham Webster was 13th in 21:08. Other results: Chris Bowker 21:43 (17th), John Graeme Bertenshawe 21:49 (19th), Jennifer Hill 21:58 (22nd), Terry Hellings 22:44 (22nd), Kev Murray 22:47 (32nd), Stephen Wise 22:54 (34th), G Browne 23:08 (34th), Nicole Rowlands 25:26 (89th), Trevor Roberts 26:01 (94th), Claire Markham 26:05 (97th), Adrian Sargent 26:37 (106th), Gill Draper 27:09 (118th), Karen Lanigan 29:19 (142nd), Jeremy McCandless 30:12 (160th), Ruth Bye 30:34 (173rd), James McAfee 31:49 (187th), Sue Henry 31:49 (188th), Julie Wiseman 32:02 (194th), Robert Parker 33:04 (207th) and Sarah Bagshaw 42:32 (251st).
Rae Willoughby ran the Blackpool parkrun and managed 39:23, Liz Abbott was first overall at the Hereford parkrun in a great time of 17:57. At the Hagley parkrun Richard Storey ran 22:41 for 71st position, whilst Kirsten Burnett completed the Cuerden Valley parkrun in 29:52 for 73rd. Jonathon Tuck travelled to Preston and ran 20:19 for 21st spot.
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