ERME Valley Harriers’ steeplechase star Will Battershill showed his flat speed improvement on Wednesday night by smashing his 1,500m personal best at the BMC Gold Standard Meeting in Watford. Battershill clocked 3:41.80 to finish fifth in a top-quality race won by recent Commonwealth Games finalist and Olympian Elliot Giles. It was Battershill’s first 1,500m race … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth’s teenage pole vaulter Noah Jones smashed his personal best at the South West League meeting at Exeter Arena on Sunday. Jones leaped 4.10m to take victory in the joint senior men’s/under-20 event which was nine centimetres more than he had ever jumped before. He had only set a new PB of 4.01m … Continue reading
AMBITIOUS Plymouth rugby club Tamar Saracens have suffered a major blow with news that they are going to have to leave their Parkway home at the end of the 2022-23 season. Plymouth Argyle have agreed a deal in principle to acquire the land at the Parkway Sports & Social Club to turn it into a … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Aidan Heslop was happy with his performance in the individual 10m platform competition at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The 20-year-old has been competing on the Red Bull Cliff Diving Series, but he dropped down 17-metres to represent Wales in his second Commonwealth Games on Sunday. He ended up finishing eighth with 408.00 points … Continue reading
BEN PROUD made history on Wednesday night by winning a third consecutive Commonwealth Games 50m freestyle title. The former Plymouth College pupil, who this year became world champion in the event, had first won the crown as a teenager back in 2014 when the Commonwealth Games were held in Glasgow. He then followed that up … Continue reading
FORMER Plymouth student Laura Stephens said she was ‘super happy’ after claiming her first major senior international medal at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday evening. Olympian Stephens, who studied at Plymouth College before going on to do a degree at the University of Plymouth, took silver for Team England behind Australian Elizabeth Dekkers in the … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth and Tavistock AC will both have representatives at next month’s School Games National Finals at Loughborough University. The multi-sport competition, previously called the UK School Games, provide the opportunity for top under-17 athletes to experience a mini-Olympic type event featuring 10 sports and compete as part of a wider team. The event … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Phoenix enjoyed victory in the 3v3 Ice Hockey Summer Cup held at the Pavilions on Saturday evening. It was the second time the British Regional Ice-Inline Hockey Association (BRIHA) had held a 3v3 event at the city event following one earlier this year. The latest tournament proved even better than the first, with even … Continue reading
BEN PROUD admitted reclaiming the Commonwealth Games men’s 50m butterfly title in Birmingham on Saturday evening was particularly special for him. The 27-year-old former Plymouth College pupil, who last month became world 50m freestyle champion, broke his own Games record with a 22.81 swim at the newly-built Sandwell Aquatics Centre to claim England’s first gold … Continue reading
MOUNT Kelly, Plymouth Leander, Dartmoor Darts and Devonport Royal all returned home with gold medals from the British Summer Swimming Championships in Sheffield. Mount Kelly enjoyed their best ever national championships and finished as the top club with 22 gold medals, 14 silvers and 16 bronze. They also had 117 finalists. Great Britain junior internationals … Continue reading