Lincolnshire County Track and Field Championships

Grantham 12/13 May 2001 - Day 1 report

See full results and photographs from this fixture here.

There were some good performances from Lincoln Wellington athletes on the opening day of the Lincolnshire track and field championships at Grantham. None were more impressive than Rachael Nathan’s gun to tape victory in the under 17 women’s 1500 metres in an outstanding time of 4.32.1. This took seven seconds off her previous best and will place her very close to the top of the early season national rankings for the event. It was also a new Lincoln Wellington club record. In the same race Sarah Coates kept going well to finish 3rd in 5.30.7.

In the same age group Catherine Morton was a good winner of the 100m in 13.9. Veteran athlete Denise Timmis had a good day with wins in the 100m in 13.7 and the 400m in 63.4 and Betty Stracey was another veteran winner when taking the 1500m title in 6.50.3. There were wins in the senior age group for Nina Forney in the 400m hurdles in 78.1 and for Sharon Waller in the shot with 7.51m and the pair were also 3rd and 4th respectively in the 100m. Hayley Fox cleared 2.00m to claim the pole vault and was runner up in the discus with 23.14m.

There were two classy efforts from Jenny Pacey to win the under 20 triple jump with 10.52m and the shot with 10.30m and Rowena Harrison ran strongly to win the 400m in a personal best equalling 59.3 with Liz Ward close behind in 60.3. Hayley Brylewski impressed in the under 15 girl’s 100m with a winning time of 13.3 and in the 1500m Natasha Johnson was 2nd in 5.19.3 with Emily Taylor 3rd in 5.22.7 and Sarah Kimpton 5th in 5.48.8.

Rachel Humberstone knocked a big chunk off her previous best when running very well to win the under 13 girl’s 1500m in 5.48.5. Matthew Richardson held on well to win the under 13 boy’s 100m in 14.4 and he also finished 3rd in the long jump with 3.68m. Jamie Dixon won the under 20 1500m in 4.37.7 but a more significant performance came from Josh Stone with 4.41.3 for 3rd place in the under 15 boy’s 1500m - taking over seven seconds off his previous best. Ian Kimpton was 4th in the same race in 4.58.5 with Shaun Dunn 5th in 5.00.4.

In the under 17 men’s 1500m Jason Hall was just outpaced in the closing stages and finished 2nd in 4.23.8 with Roy Smith 3rd in 4.40.0. And in the under 17’s 400m Matt Hughes did best of the Wellington trio with 57.5 for 4th place. Patrick Barber was 5th in 58.4 and Jason Lovell 6th in 58.7. Luke Lovell picked up 3rd spot in the 100m in 12.8.

There was a high class senior men’s 100m final and in a blitzing finish Ricky Lea was just beaten in a good time of 11.2. A further senior victory went to Ady White with a personal best equalling clearance of 3.30m in the pole vault. New member Freddy Attenborough produced a promising run in the under 20 400m to finish 6th in 58.4.

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