Wakefield Harriers athletes rack up personal bests in big events
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Leonie Ashmeade led the way by winning two medals, including a silver in the senior women's 60m in an excellent new personal best time of 7.44 seconds, after running 7.48s in the heats.
Her time is just 2/100ths of a second slower than the club record held by Olympian Emily Freeman since 2006.
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Hide AdLeonie also won a bronze medal in the 200m in a time of 24.54s.
Several other athletes were just out of the medals and had top six finishes.
Ella Bickerdyke finished sixth in the U17 women’s 60m in a new PB of 7.96s and fifth in the 200m in 26.46s, after running 26.17s in her semi-final.
Thomas Wood was sixth in the senior men’s 200m in 22.68s, after running a fine new PB of 22.02s in his semi-final.
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Hide AdAlexander Bostwick finished fourth in the U20 men’s 400m in 52.55s, after running a PB of 52.24s in his semi-final.
Last year's winner Mark Bostock was not at his best, after a recent injury, but still did well to finish fourth in the 3000m in 8m 40.97s.
Erin Hunt was fifth in the U20 women’s pole vault with a leap of 2.50m.
At the Brass Monkey Half Marathon near York there was a great run from the in-form Daniel Franks, finishing eighth.
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Hide AdHis time of 69:17 was the fastest by a Harrier for 11 years, and it moves him up to seventh in the club all-time half marathon list.
Ben Butler also had a good run with a time of 73:06, finishing 44th out of the large field of nearly 1700 runners and Andrew Teasdale recorded a fine new PB of 79:25.
At the latest South Yorkshire Indoor Open meeting at Sheffield, there were quite a few young Harriers competing, with some good performances.
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Hide AdThe highlight was another new U11 Boys Club 60m record of 8.86 seconds from Ethan Ford, beating the previous record he set last month by 7/100ths of a second.
He also had a clear win in the 600m in a fine new PB of 1m 52.79s.
U13 girl Romy Fagan also had a good day, winning the 60m in 8.79s and finishing second in the 200m in 29.27s.