Hall hat-trick at Regional Indoor Championships, captain Capes finishes second in international event in Sweden

Hall won the over 35 high jump, 60m hurdles and shot. He cleared 1.70m in the high jump. Hall also won long jump bronze.

Claire Smith became a goldsmith while her husband Julian became a silversmith after a successful weekend. Claire Smith won both over 45 sprint events, the 200 and 400m in times of 28.07 & 63.48 respectively. Her 200m time was a championship record. Husband Julian clocked 7.96 to finish third in the 60m and ran 25.84 over 200m. He picked up his silver medal at the Southern Counties Championships.

Plenty of other PANVAC veterans were amongst the medals with John Spriggs enjoying a field day winning both the over 70 triple and long jump completions with distances of 7.32 and 3.31m respectively.

Dave Brown ran a time of 2:13.42 to win over 35 800m gold, while Matt Parsons picked up over 45 800m silver with a 52.88 clocking.

Simon Achurch won the over 50 shot with a throw of 12.12m.

PANVAC athletes took the top two places in the over 70 shot. Kevin Bates threw 10.34m for gold with Tim Needham winning silver with a 7.28m throw. Jim Gillespie won over 60 silver with a distance of 8.91m.

CAPTAIN CAPES

PANVAC star Lawson Capes was runner up in the shot put at the Vaxjo Indoor International in Sweden. He threw a new 6kg shot personal best (PB) of 17.31m. The 17 year-old was beaten into second place by Irish thrower Tomas Hanlon who threw just seven centimetres further than Capes. However, Hanlon is almost a full year older than the PANVAC ace.

Capes had the honour of captaining the England team at the event.

RUNNING TO THE MAX

PANVAC team-mate Harry Hewitt won the 3,000m in a time of 8:24.76 at the Steel Cup indoor meeting in Sheffield.

Clubmate Max Roe ran an 8.56 60m hurdles when finishing second.

A busy Roe clocked 8.70 over the 60m hurdles when finishing fourth in his heat at the British Universities Indoor Championship.

Roe’s PANVAC hurdling rival Jack Wheatley finished fifth in the 60m hurdles at the British Indoor Athletics Championship with a time of 8:58.

VALENTINES RACE

Harry Ledger and Ollie Mason of Peterborough & Nene Valley AC both made the top 20 at Sunday's St Valentines 30K road race in Stamford.

With heavy sleet falling throughout the race, there was a clear incentive to get it over and done with as quickly as possible. Ledger just missed out on going round in under two hours, finishing 15th with a time of 2:00.56. Mason wasn't far behind, placing 18th with a 2:01.29 clocking. Dan Lewis was the third PANVAC athlete home finishing 34th in 2:04.20.

It was a good day for two Werrington athletes with James Burton finishing 24th in 2:02.23. Miguel Cann was the leading over 60, clocking 2:08.53 for 57th place.

Yaxley’s Craig Bradley finished 47th in 2:06.32 with his clubmate Jacob Drury coming in 52nd with a time of 2:07.28. Claire Piercey of Yaxley was the 35th lady over the line with a time of 2:30.14.

Helpston Harrier Nat Freeman placed 62nd with a 2:09.54 clocking.

Newark truck driver Richard Gibbs won the race.