Alex Humberstone was the star for the U13 Boys on the opening day and won the 100m comfortably in 14.2s before going on to score in the Long Jump with a leap of 4.41m.  The U15 Boys produced some very good field performances.  Sam Chapman took the Long Jump title with 5.25m, Liam Clarke threw a very useful 37.44m in the Javelin and there was a win in the High Jump with a clearance of 1.45m by Josh Holden.  In a competitive 1500m contest, Will Arden was just touched off in a desperate finish with 4m 49.5s.  Richard Brine was 3rd with 4m 52.2s and Dylan Love a close 4th with 4m 56.7s.  In the U17 Mens age group, Ian Maplethorpe won the 1500m in 4m 24.0s from Jack Culpin 2nd in 4m 37.2s and a good effort from Joe Dunderdale won him the Javelin with 47.29m.  Matt Houlden was successful with 61.8s in the U20 Mens 400m Hurdles.  And, in the same age group, Tom Straw took the 1500m in 4m 06.6s with Chris Woodger 2nd 4m 10.4s.  An impressive run by Steve Gregory gave him a win in the Senior Mens 400m in a personal best 49.4s and he is now looking ready to start fulfilling his undoubted potential.  Matt Bowser made all the running to win the 1500m in a good early season time of 3m 52.5s with Will Strangeway notching a personal best 4m 02.9s for 3rd.  In the Veteran Mens age group, Les Ball produced a championship best performance to take the 1500m title in 4m 12.0s and there was a double success for Adey White with 37.46m in the Javelin and 3.00m in the Pole Vault.

The second day of competition saw the Lincoln Wellington squad following up their excellent first day showing by claiming a remarkable 33 individual titles.  In the U13 Boys age group, Alex Humberstone collected his 3rd title of the weekend by winning the 200m by a considerable margin in 27.8s.  There was a terrific effort from Dominic Sykes to win the U15 Boys Hammer with a championship best and club record throw of 46.11m.  And more good field performances in the same age group came from Liam Clarke who won the Discus with 31.45m and the Shot with 9.78m and also from Josh Holden and Lewis Goddard who were 1st and 2nd in the Triple Jump with 10.41m and 10.02m respectively.  Ronny Wilson ran strongly to win the U17 800m in 2m 06.6s and the 3000m in the same age group went to Ian Maplethorpe, who completed a good championship with a winning time of 9m 23.5s.  Top performance from the U20 Men went to Matt Houlden with a superb championship best and club record Triple Jump of 13.33m.  There was a competitive U20 800m with Chris Woodger (2m 01.2s) holding off a good challenge from Max Ware who was 2nd with 2m 03.6s.  There was also a Wellington 1-2 in the 2000m steeplechase with Stuart Campbell recording a win in 6m 26.7s with Shane Robinson 2nd in 6m 48.9s.  In possibly the strongest 800m run in Lincolnshire for a long time, Matt Bowser made all the running to win the Senior Mens race in 1m 54.0s and was just too strong for Steve Gregory who finished 2nd in a highly promising time of 1m 56.0s.  New member Aaron Scott made a good debut in the club vest by making all the running to win the 5000m in 15m 25.2s.  Les Ball notched his 2nd championship best of the weekend with 2m 04.1s in the Veteran Mens 800m and John Moore took the Vets 200m title in 26.8s following his 2nd place in the 100m in 13.5s which was a club record in the V55 category.  There was also a club record for Brendan Sykes V35 Shot with a putt of 10.07m for 2nd place.

In the U13 Girls events, Catrina Thomas completed an excellent weekend by winning the 800m in 2m 31.9s and Alison Mouzon cleared 1.20m to take the High Jump title.  There were two Wellington championship best performances from the U15 Girls squad.  Emma Tonner won the 3000m in 10m 45.0s and Hannah Dunderdale recorded a fine 31.85m to win the Javelin.  Mary-Ann Phillips completed an U17 sprint double by winning the 200m in 26.5s and in the same age group Hester Talbot (2m 26.2s) just held off Megan Ball (2m 26.8s) to score in the 800m.  Another championship best for the club went to Sarah Stanhope with a splendid throw of 40.51m in the Hammer.  She completed a good double by taking the Javelin with 26.66m.  Shireen Timmis followed up her U20 100m win by taking the 200m title in 27.4s and Becky White won the 3000m in 11m 13.3s.  Multi-eventer Lydia Chamberlin had a busy afternoon and, after equalling the championship best with 15.5s in the 100m Hurdles, she also won the Long Jump with 5.25m and the 200m with 26.3s.  The 3000m went to Lucinda Pitcher in 10m 27.8s with Harriet Canter 2nd in 10m 43.8s and Lauren Thomas won the Triple Jump with 7.24m.  In the Veterans events, Denise Timmis won the 200m in 29.9s and the Long Jump with 4.28m.  And a final club record in the V50 age group went to Susie Ardron with 2m 53.3s in the 800m.

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