The city boasts some excellent sprinters but it was Peterborough Athletic Club's Jake Berney who stole the show with three championship best performances.

He began by taking three tenths of a second off the 18 year-old record of former hurdling star Matthew Clements in the 100m heats before going a shade faster in the final.

And Berney, also a keen basketball player, then set a record in the 200m heats before adding his second gold medal of the day.

Hunts Athletic Club's Jordan Gillbanks was another to impress, breaking Tony Jarman's 30 year-old championship best performance to win the Under 15 boys 400m and later winning the 200m by more than a second.

Joel Grenfell of PAC was second to Gillbanks in the 200m having earlier beaten him to the long jump gold medal.

Grenfell also took the 100m title to gain revenge over clubmate Ben Turner who had twice beaten him in the Peterborough Schools Trials at the same venue four days earlier.

Other local sprinters to impress included Megan Edwards (PAC) with a 100m/200m/long jump treble and Kevin Ellis (Nene Valley Harriers) in the senior men's 100m.

Paige Lambert (Nene Valley) was second to Edwards in the 200m but went one better in the 800m where there was a Lambert one-two.

Sophie, no relation, of PAC took silver in that event.

Georgie Ivens (Nene Valley) was close to her club record in the 200m heats but didn't take place in the final having picked up a niggle in her hip.

She also took silver in the 300m, while Sharna Emanuel (PAC) won her 100m heat but also didn't run in the final.

In that same age group, Charlotte Hinch (Nene Valley) recorded an 800m/1500m double and took two seconds off her club record in the former despite being out on her own (she won by almost seven seconds).

Michael Smith (Hunts AC) adopted his usual blast from the gun tactics in the Under 17 men's 1500m but on the final lap Chris Wright (Nene Valley) closed rapidly and the line came just in time.

Wright had earlier won the 3000m otherwise he may have caught Smith.

Orton athlete Ruth Watson led all the way in the 800m, being chased most of the way by regular Frostbite League winner Suzi Boast.

But Watson was always in control and pulled away down the final straight.

Another middle distance athlete, Matt Gunby (PAC) could have done with being chased as he lapped most of the field in the senior men's 5000m.