City of Plymouth athletes return with a host of PBs from Yeovil

CITY of Plymouth AC took a team of young athletes to Somerset on Saturday to compete at the Yeovil Summer Track Open and they returned with a host of personal bests.

Henry Curtis was just denied a big legal PB in the under-17 men’s 100m hurdles due to the wind.

Curtis, who is already ranked ninth in the UK at that event with a time of 13.94, clocked 13.56 at Yeovil, but the wind was just over the legal limit. However, he did get a legal PB in the 100m flat with a 11.63 second run.

Poppy and Rosie Northcott and Kate Gray had a similar experience with the wind in their under-15 girls’ 75m hurdles races. Poppy Northcott ran 12.41, Gray clocked 12.80 and Rosie Northcott ran 12.99, but all those times were deemed wind-assisted.

However, Adam Dingley did get a legal hurdles run it. He clocked 13.11 seconds to take second in the under-15 boys’ 80m hurdles and move up to 22^nd in the UK.  Nicolas Maczugowski is ranked 15^th in that event but did not run the hurdles in Somerset. Instead he concentrated on the flat and ran a new 100m PB of 12.70 seconds.

Middle distance star Jed Hutchings set a new 800m PB with a quick 2:07.85 in windy conditions to take second in the under-15 boys’ event. That ranks him in the UK’s top 25 overall and makes him the quickest first year under-15 by more than two seconds

Poppy Northcott also ran in the under-15 800m. Despite the breezy conditions, she clocked 2:23.14. She is also a first year under-15.

Kate Gray made her debut over 300m hurdles and was first under-15 with a time of 51.87 seconds.

Under-17 athlete Connell McCarthy ran under 12 seconds for the 100m for the first time, clocking 11.88 seconds, but, unfortunately for him, it was wind-assisted.  However, he did manage a legal run of 24.09 seconds in the 200m.

Brook Adnitt was first senior in the 200m with a season’s best time of 22.96 seconds.

Full results can be found HERE.