The British Masters Indoor Pentathlon championships took place at the Lee Valley complex on Sunday, with just the one representative from AAC, Peter Davey, taking part.
Having enjoyed an excellent outdoor season in 2010, Peter was looking forward to the event; even having a short notice shot putt session with Ted Hawkins’ group on the Tuesday evening.
Competing in the M35 age group, the events were 60mHurdles, Long Jump, Shot Putt, High Jump and finally the 1000 metres. As expected, Peter’s Shot Putt was his weakest event, but other four disciplines brought out good performances from Peter, including an indoor pb in the High Jump in which he cleared 1.66 metres.
Peter’s total score of 2656 points was comfortably good enough to take the Gold medal and the score was also a club Vets record. In addition Peter took the club Vets records in the High Jump, Long Jump and the 1000 metres for very encouraging start to 2011.
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Pete’s a record breaker
Double gold for Davey
Steve Langford and Pete Davey parade their medals
IT was a great day for training partners Steve Langford and Pete Davey at the Kent Veteran Championships.
Steve, who competes in the Vet 50 category, took his tenth long jump title earning the gold with a jump of 5m 20 just 10cms short of the championship record that he set last year. Steve also took silver in the 100m having to content with a very strong head wind clocking 13.5 secs.
Davey had a busy day in the Vet 35 category opening with a silver in the 110m hurdles just losing out on gold to Kent AC’s Joe Appiah. Pete clocked 16.33.
It was double gold for Pete though in the 100m and 400m clocking 12.28 and 57.58 respectively. In the long jump Pete had a real battle that went down to the very last jump of the competition. Although Pete leapt to 5m 67, Steve Lake of M&M took gold.
Both Steve and Pete train at the Julie Rose Stadium under their coach Chas Robinson.
Rachel sets new mark
ASHFORD AC’s Rachel Hanagan broke a 23 year old club record in a fine weekend in the U20 heptathlon at Stoke.
Rachel finished a splendid sixth with a personal best points tally of 4,205 after a victory in the 800m in a personal best 2:24.78 and second in the 200m in 26.17. She set another best in the high jump with 1.49m and a season’s best 5.24m in the long jump.
Her points tally broke Karen Hambrook’s club record in the heptathlon set in 1987.
Caroline Hatley also competed well finishing 17th in the U17 heptathlon with season bests in the long jump and high jump.
Ashford multi eventer Chris Blandford was 17th in the U20 men’s decathlon with a personal best javelin of 51.09m and more bests in the 110m hurdles (20.40) and 100m (12.48) with a seaon’s best 400m of 56.10 and high jump of 1.54m.
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