TAVISTOCK’S Tegan Brown produced the best performance of her short career to claim a medal at the English Athletics U15 & U17 Championships in Bedford at the weekend. Brown threw a new personal best of 43.86m to win bronze in the under-15 girls’ hammer competition. She was more than five metres clear of the fourth … Continue reading
CONNOR Keeler, Hannah Worth, Dean Crow and Charlotte Kerr were the main winners at the 2022 Plymouth Triathlon on Sunday. The event at Mount Batten saw two competitions – an Olympic standard triathlon, which is a 1,500m swim, a 40k bike ride and a 10k run, and a sprint event, which involves a 750m swim, … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Aidan Heslop has recorded another podium finish at the latest round of the 2022 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Heslop finished third behind the Romanian pair of Constantin Popovici Catalin Preda at the event, where divers leap off a medieval arched bridge and into the Neretva River. The … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK’S Jack Easton picked up a worrying looking injury in their narrow 14-12 defeat at Saltash on Saturday in the final match of their pre-season campaign. The influential half-back had to be helped off the field with a knee problem after mistiming a tackle that earned him a yellow card. Prop Darren Guppy also had … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK’S Tegan Brown and City of Plymouth’s Nicolas Maczugowski both moved up the UK rankings with eye-catching personal bests at the fourth Devon Open meeting of the season at Brickfields on Sunday. Brown stormed up to fourth in the national under-15 girls’ hammer rankings with a throw of 42.50m, which was nearly four metres further … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK Primary School teacher Sam Lake claimed a world title at the weekend. Lake took victory in her age group at the World Aquathlon Championships in Samorin, Slovakia. The mother-of-two not only won the female 40-44 category but was also fifth woman overall out of all the age group competitors (16-70). The event involved a … Continue reading
SALTASH enjoyed a morale-boosting 40-10 pre-season victory away at higher league Plymstock Albion Oaks on Saturday. Oaks were missing a number of key forwards, but Saltash really impressed at Horsham Fields and scored six tries in total – three in each half. “It was a fairly complete performance, but obviously there’s still things to work … Continue reading
HIGHLY-rated young back-row forward James Hocking scored two tries in 10 minutes just before half-time as a strong Devonport Services IIs side beat Tamar Saracens 14-0 at Keyham on Friday night. Services’ seconds will be playing in the Counties 2 Devon league this season – a division higher than Tamar Saracens – and they had … Continue reading
PLYMPTON Victoria say there is a really good feeling around the club going into the 2022-23 season. The Devon Merit Table side have endured some tough times over the years and in 2018 were made homeless after losing their Marsh Mills pitch. But the following year they found a new home at St Mary’s Field … Continue reading
BEN PROUD admitted it felt ‘surreal’ to have become the first person ever to win the World, European and Commonwealth 50m freestyle titles in the same year. The former Plymouth College swimmer completed the unique triple on Wednesday evening in the final session of swimming action at the European Championships in Rome. Proud managed to … Continue reading