CITY of Plymouth’s Nicolas Maczugowski and Adam Dingley and Tavistock AC’s Joe Wake and Caleb Gifford-Groves all won medals at indoor championship events at the weekend.
Maczugowski, Wake and Gifford-Groves all travelled to Cardiff for the 48th Welsh U13/U15/U20 Championships.
City of Plymouth athlete Maczugowski took the under-20 men’s 400m title.
He won the final in 50.64 seconds, having also won his semi and heats in 51.13 and 51.78, respectively, on the same day.
Tavistock under-17 athletes Gifford-Groves and Wake both stepped up to under-20 level and both returned with silver medals.
Gifford-Groves finished as runner-up in the 800m, clocking 1:59.68 in the final, having ran 2:01.87 in the heats just hours earlier. He also ran the 400m the day before, clocking 53.96 seconds.
Wake took silver in the under-20 men’s 200m with a 23.45 second run in the final, having clocked 23.56 and 23.86 in the earlier rounds on the Sunday.
The day before, Wake also reached the final of the U20 60m event, where he came sixth with a time of 7.13 seconds. He had run 7.11 in the semi-finals and 7.17 in the heats. Wake was a medallist in the 60m at last month’s South of England Under-17 Championship.
City of Plymouth’s Dingley medalled at the South of England U20 Championships that were held at Lee Valley.
Dingley took bronze in the 60m hurdles with a 8.05 second run, having clocked 8.11 in the heats.
His best this year is 7.97 seconds, which he ran in January Be Fit Today Track Academy Indoor Series at Lee Valley. That time ranks him fifth in the early UK rankings.
Meanwhile, fellow City of Plymouth athlete Nubia Evans-Shields was on international duty for England at the weekend.
The UK junior number one competed for her country at the Växjö Inomhuskast event in Sweden.
She finished fourth in the under-20 indoor discus event behind three Swedish athletes with a distance of 40.77m.
Also overseas, City of Plymouth’s Emily Bee continued her consistent 60m hurdles season with an 8.65 second run at the YSU Mid Major Invitational meeting in America. That was just 0.01 of a second of her season’s best and just 0.03 off the Youngstown student’s PB. She is ranked in the UK’s top 25 seniors so far this year.
Another City of Plymouth hurdler was also in action at the weekend. Henry Curtis opened his 60m hurdles campaign with an 8.38 second run at the Loughborough Indoor Open, which was his second fastest ever time and ranks him in the UK’s top 35 overall.