Medals for young Wimborne athletes

Wimborne Athletic Club athletes brought home a hatful of medals from the South West Athletics Championships held at the Exeter Arena recently.

Standout performances came from Mila Desborough who set a new Championship Best Performance in the Under 15 Girls Javelin with a personal best and national lead distance of 45m97. Lani Moore is Number 1 in the UK in the Under 13 hurdles and won both that event in 11.70 and the high jump with 1m40. Kayla Robbins set a new high jump personal best of 1m63 which extinguished the previous 18-year-old club record and won bronze in the Under 15 long jump 4m84.

There were also gold medals for Lila Baines 4m59 in the Under 13 long jump and Maisie Robbins 8m26 in the shot. Maisie also won bronze in the javelin with 22m30.  Elliott Trickey got close to his personal best with a 12m36 Under 15 winning triple jump. Ava Elliott-Smith won silver in the Under 15 100m sprint in 12.60 and 200m in 26.28. Rosie Gollings won a silver in the 300m in 42.76.

Bronze medals went to Tom Faulkner in the Under 13 800 metres, and Zac Johnson threw 7m43 in the shot. Tilly Pretty won bronze in the shot 7m49 and discus 15m82, while Ren Turner threw the javelin 28m38 in a very good day for the Under 13s.

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