Athletes from the region claim South West Championships titles at Exeter

EMILY BEE, Nicolas Maczugowski, Phoebe Milburn, Nubia Evans-Shields, Lamara Hammoudeh, Mabel Maguire and Jacob Lamboll all claimed titles at the joint South West Championships and Inter-Counties event at Exeter on Sunday.

City of Plymouth athlete Bee, who has been at university in America, won both the senior women’s 100m hurdles and javelin.

She broke the championship best time to win the sprint hurdles event in 14.31 seconds and threw a season’s best throw of 32.83m to triumph in the javelin.

Club colleague Evans-Shields had won the England under-20 discus title the week before and she eased to another South West crown for Devon on Sunday with a throw of 39.49m. Second place went Tavistock athlete Ella Patterson, who threw 29.90m.

Patterson was also on the podium in the under-20 women’s hammer competition, which was won by her club and Devon colleague Phoebe Milburn, with a throw of 46.60m. Silver went to fellow Tavistock athlete Louisa Hess with 39.63m, with Patterson third just one centimetre behind with 39.62m. Milburn also won the under-20 shot.

Maczugowski, who like Milburn medalled at the recent English Schools’ Track & Field Championships, won the under-20 400m hurdles and 400m flat. He clocked 54.84 seconds in the hurdles and ran 49.61 seconds in the flat.

The under-20 400m was run as part of the senior men’s race, which City of Plymouth’s Lamboll won in 49.23 seconds.

Lamboll, who is now at university in Cardiff, also won the 200m for Cornwall in 22.59 seconds.

City of Plymouth youngster Hammoudeh, also representing Cornwall, won the under-13 girls’ 100m in a PB time of 13.60 seconds. She was also second in the 200m in 28.99 seconds, which was another PB.

Tavistock AC’s Mabel Maguire claimed the under-13 long jump title with 4.30m.

City of Plymouth’s Finley Eales picked up two silver medals in the under-13 boys’ 200m and 800m. He clocked 28.31 seconds in the 200m and 2:25.95 in the 800m.

Erme Valley Harriers’ Isabella Trowell bagged a silver and a bronze in under-17 hurdles events. She won silver in the 80m hurdles with 13.32 seconds and took bronze in the 300m hurdles with 49.54 seconds.

Tavistock’s Katelyn Milburn could not have been much closer to claiming the under-17 triple jump title. She had to settle for silver with a leap of 10.71m, which was just four centimetres off gold.

City of Plymouth’s Elsie Goodspeed set a new PB of 2:21.25 to take second in a highly-competitive under-15 girls’ 800m.

In the under-15 boys’ 800m, fellow City of Plymouth athlete Taylan Jones also won a silver with a 2:19.93 run.

City of Plymouth’s Henry Curtis won silver in the men’s 110m hurdles with a 15.03 second run. He also won the B 100m final with a 11.41 seconds.

Tavistock’s Josh Tyler was another men’s silver medallist. He came second in the shot with 14.71m.

Club colleague Evie Palmer took second in the under-17 girls’ javelin with a throw of 30.13m, while Tavistock’s Isabelle Doney, competing for Cornwall, won silver in the under-15 girls’ discus with 23.89m.

There was a bronze medal for City of Plymouth’s Josh Blake in the men’s 800m with a 1:58.57 run.

Also picking up bronze medals were Joshua Bloxham and Ross Penney. City of Plymouth’s Bloxham took third in the under-17 400m with a 53.55 second run, while Plymouth Harriers’ Penney was third in the men’s 2,000m steeplechase.

Full results can be found HERE.