Pontefract athletes produce more record breaking performances
Athletes from Pontefract AC have been in record breaking form this month.
In the South Yorkshire Indoor meeting, Sienna Lavine set a UK national indoor record for the under 15 girls 400 metres with an outstanding time of 57.85 seconds at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.
The time is also a Pontefract club record and it crowned a fantastic year for the outstanding junior athlete who has set records galore and continues on an upward path.
Sienna is only just 13 years old and only moved into the U15s age group on October 1, so there could be a lot more to come.
At the same meeting, Julian Rutkowski was also in outstanding form as he was the fastest finisher in the under 15 boys 600 metres event, setting a Pontefract Athletics Club record with a time of one minute: 34.62 seconds.
A week earlier in the Northern Athletics Indoor Meeting at Sheffield, Yannick Stevenson produced an impressive performance to win the under 17 men's long jump.
He also set a Pontefract club record with a leap of 6.08 metres.
Four hours before her performance in the 400 metres at Sheffield, Sienna Lavine had an impressive run in the PECO Cross Country League at Pontefract Park.
She was the first female finisher in a very large field in the juniors two miles race for athletes aged 11 to 15.
Sienna also made it three wins out of three in the West Yorkshire Cross Country League at Oulton to clinch the overall winners shield in the under 13 girls age group.
Max Wainwright came 12th in the under 11 boys race and Mya Ellary was 13th in the under 11 girls race.