PANVAC athletes enjoy a field day in Luton, gold for Elyse in Chelmsford and George cleans up in Nuneaton
PANVAC finished runners-up in the second Southern Athletics League fixture of the season at Luton.
It was quite a field day for the club, with only one of their 11 first places coming on the track. That was achieved by Max Roe who won the 110m hurdles in a time of 15.06. Roe also won the long jump with a distance of 6.26m.
Angus Bowling cleared 4.50m to finish first in the pole vault with Simon Achurch winning the hammer with a throw of 40.40m and the B javelin. Andrea Jenkins won both the ladies discus and hammer with throws of 31.10 and 39.19m
Noah Fell won the B pole vault and triple jump with Jonathan Levett first in the B long jump and Dave Bush winning the B high jump.
PANVAC’s Elyse Morgan won under 16 200m gold at the South of England Track and Field Championship at Chelmsford. After coming through the heats Morgan ran 25.53 in the final, which she won by two tenths of a second. She also reached the 100m final, finishing seventh with a 12.67 clocking.
Morgan wasn't the only PANVAC athlete on the podium as Iris Kwakye won under 18 200m bronze with a time of 25.53. She also competed in the 100m, running 12.70 in her heat.
Alphin Hadfield just missed out on a medal when finishing fourth in the under 18 400m final in 51.93. Amelia Mullings finished eighth in the under 16 100m final with a time of 12.68. She clocked 26.74 in her 200m heat.
Emmanuel Ishiodu, Lily Twumasi and Alfie Olaore also competed in the 100 and 200m heats, while Zinachidi Nwamarah finished ninth in the under 16 long jump with a best jump of 5.20m.
PANVAC’s George Smith won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal in the Midland Age Group Championships at Nuneaton.
The under 14 won gold in the javelin with a throw of 39.94m. He backed that up with silver in the shot with a throw of 9.64m, and bronze in the discus with a distance of 22.25m.
Smith only started competing last year but is now ranked British number two in his javelin age group.
PANVAC veteran Rob Jeffrey clocked 16:50.02 to finish 6th over 40 in the Vets AC 5,000m Championships at Battersea Park.
Lawson Capes of PANVAC won the javelin at the Loughborough Open Meeting with a throw of 19.60m, a new personal best. Capes also threw the discus 53.45m for second place.
Another PANVAC athlete, Archie Faulder, ran a 4:30.81 mile at a meeting in Jarrow. Faulder raced at Jarrow again a few days later in the Top Flight BMC Classic. He recorded an impressive 1,500m time of 3:56.19. His PANVAC team-mate Harry Hewitt was even quicker crossing the line in 3:51.52.