City of Plymouth athletes Ethan Glyde and Emily Bee claim titles overseas

CITY of Plymouth athletes Ethan Glyde and Emily Bee both won titles overseas at the weekend.

Commonwealth Youth Games high jump champion Glyde recorded a season’s best height of 2.11m to win the French under-20 indoor title on Saturday night.

It followed on from him taking silver in the England U20 Indoor Championships in Sheffield earlier in the month.

Glyde, who set a PB of 2.15m last season on his way to topping the UK under-20 rankings, has recently agreed to a 100 per cent scholarship with the University of Iowa in America. They are a NCAA Division One track and field team and he will start there in August.

Bee is currently in America studying and competing for Youngstown State University. She claimed her first major championship win in the USA at the weekend by taking victory in the women’s pentathlon at the Horizon League Indoor Championships.

Bee recorded a big PB of 3,712 points for the five-event competition. She ran 8.72 seconds for the 60m hurdles, leaped 5.68m in the long jump and 1.61m in the high jump, threw 9.63m in the shot and finished off with a 2:26.43 run in the 800m.

If that was not enough, Bee also competed in the individual long jump during the pentathlon, finishing eighth in that with 5.60m, and then just 30 minutes after running the 800m she took part in the individual 60m hurdles and set a new PB to reach the final. In the hurdles final she lowered her best even further to 8.62 seconds.

The former Plymouth High School for Girls pupil is now back to her best after suffering a serious injury two years ago when she tore her anterior talofibular ligament and Achilles tendon as well as suffering a small distal fibula fracture while doing hurdles training.

Closer to home, City of Plymouth’s Henry Curtis lowered his 60m hurdles PB at the BUCS Championships in Sheffield. Curtis ran 8.26 seconds, which ranks him in the top 10 under-23 athletes in the country this year.