CITY of Plymouth hurdler Adam Dingley claimed yet another personal best and club record on his way to winning his first national medal.

Dingley took bronze in the under-17 boys’ 60m hurdles final at the England Athletics Age Group Championships in Sheffield.

He was just edged out in a close final by Medway’s Cheyne West and Havering’s Al-Ameen Salaam, who both had to run PBs to beat him.

But Dingley did clock the fastest time in the UK this year in the heats, clocking a blistering 8.15 seconds. In was only a couple of weeks ago that he had broken David King’s age group club record with an 8.33 second run at Lee Valley.

There was also a PB and a national final appearance for fellow City of Plymouth hurdler Henry Curtis in the under-20 event.

Curtis clocked 8.17 seconds in heats before running 8.22 seconds in a speedy final, where he came seventh.

Another Plymouth sprint hurdler to PB at the event was Leonie Dyer, who reached the semi-finals of the under-15 girls’ event. She clocked 9.73 seconds in the heats, before backing that up with a 9.79 second run in the semis. She also ran 44.36 seconds in the 300m.

Club colleague, Ethan Glyde, back from making a winning international under-18 debut for England at the Hustopece World Athletics Tour event in the Czech Republic, had to settle for sixth place on countback in the under-20 high jump event in Sheffield.

Glyde has leaped 2.08m this season, but it was not quite his day in South Yorkshire and he had to make do with a leap of 2.02m. The title was won with 2.05m, with the fourth, fifth and sixth placed jumpers all achieving 2.02m.

Meanwhile, City of Plymouth Olympic hurdler David King got a confidence-boosting international win ahead of this weekend’s British Indoor Championships.

King took victory at the World Indoor Silver Tour Meeting in Dusseldorf in Germany on Friday in a season best time of 7.63 seconds. He also clocked 7.68 seconds in the heats.

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