TAVISTOCK’S national under-17 hammer champion Tegan Brown ended her season on a big high by smashing her personal best at the Last-Ditch Throws meeting at Par.
The event attracted many of the South West’s leading throwers, as well as Great Britain Olympian Lawrence Okoye, who set a new stadium record in the discus with 63.63m.
Brown, who won the England U17 Championships title in July, threw an impressive 55.50m in Cornwall, which beat her previous best by nearly three metres.
It means she will finish the season ranked third in the UK rankings and as the top first-year under-17 athlete.
She threw 47.38m at Par, having broken her PB just the week before at Tavistock with 47.45m, which ranks her fifth in the country.
Fellow Tavistock hammer thrower Phoebe Milburn will also end the season in the UK’s top five.
English Schools’ medallist Milburn is among the country’s leading under-20 hammer athletes and has thrown 50.18m this season.
She won the under-20 hammer, shot and weight throw at Par. She threw 47.34m in the hammer, 12.95m in the WT and 9.45m in the shot.
Club colleagues Louisa Hess and Ella Patterson came second and third respectively in the hammer, with Patterson also second in the WT.
Charlotte Doney came third in the under-17 hammer with 38.58m, second in the discus with 29.25m and was also second in the shot behind team-mate Katelyn Milburn, who also won the under-17 javelin with 22.65m.
Meanwhile, at the Exeter Harriers Evening Open meeting in mid-week, City of Plymouth’s Joshua Blake won the men’s mile race in 4:42.24 minutes, while Erme Valley Harriers’ under-17 athlete Isabella Trowell set new PBs in the javelin (28.83m) and 100m (13.78) and came third in the shot with 9.01m.
He claimed top three places at two international steeplechase events and has helped his new club Bristol & West to two prestigious titles.
Battershill came third in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Goldenes Oval meeting Dreseden, Germany, with an 8:22.64 minute run, which equalled his second fastest time for the event.
He then came second in a 2,000m steeplechase race at the Copenhagen Athletic Games in Denmark with 5:28.75.
Within days, the former Ivybridge Community College pupil quickly switched to the cross country and came fourth in the senior men’s at the delayed 2024 National Championships at Weston Park and helped his club win the team title.
And last weekend he ran the fastest leg by 25 seconds as Bristol & West won the six-stage Midland Counties’ Road Relays at Sutton Park.
* Plymouth Harriers are holding their Autumn 5 race in Central Park on Sunday, October 20.
The event starts at 10am and sees runners complete two laps of the city park.
This year all finishes will receive a T-shirt and memento, where there will be prizes for the top three male and female runners and first in the veteran categories.
Online entries are available HERE