CITY of Plymouth’s 13-year-old sprint sensation Annabelle Fasuba achieved a major milestone in her first outdoor appearance of the 2025 season.
The English Schools’ 100m junior girls’ champion joined a short list of under-15 athletes to run under the 12-second barrier for the 100m at her club’s Spring Warm-up Meeting at Brickfields on Sunday.
Fasuba clocked a stunning time of 11.91 seconds on her first run of the season. That puts her in the UK’s overall female top 10 in the early rankings for this year and puts her 14th on the under-15 girls’ all-time list above the likes of current Great Britain stars Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt.
Just 20 female athletes in British history have run under 12 seconds at under-15 level. It also broke her own under-15 City of Plymouth record and the club’s 49-year-old under-17 record, which Jill Davies set in 1976, and was only 0.11 of a second of Katherine Endacott’s under-20 club record.
Fasuba, who won the English 60m indoor title earlier this year, also tried her hand at the 300m on Sunday at Brickfields, where she clocked an impressive time of 40.88 seconds, which broke another City of Plymouth AC record.
Meanwhile, there was a great sprinting battle between City of Plymouth’s David and Bryan Oldfield in the under-17 age group on Sunday.
In the 100m, David took victory by just 0.01 of a second. He clocked 11.39 seconds and Bryan 11.40 seconds. However, Bryan did get his revenge in the 200m, winning in 23.36 seconds, with David second in 24.29.
Alison Oldfield also showed her sprinting prowess by taking victory in the under-13 girls’ 100m in 13.53 seconds.
City of Plymouth’s 400m specialist Rory Summers claimed victory in both the under-20 men’s 100m and 200m at the weekend. He clocked a PB of 11.26 seconds in the 100m to edge out his team-mate and hurdles specialist Adam Dingley, who clocked 11.37, which was also a PB for him.
Summers then ran another PB in the 200m, clocking 22.61 seconds for the win.
Club colleague Finley Eales won the under-15 boys’ 200m in 27.50 seconds.
There was a good race in the joint senior and under-17 men’s 400m, where Plymouth’s Dan Newman took victory in 52.09 seconds, just ahead of Tavistock’s under-17 athlete Caleb Gifford-Groves, who clocked 52.42.
City of Plymouth’s Harvey Slade and Evie Welsh claimed victories in the under-13 600m in respective times of 1:45.26 and 1:53.15.
Another home club athlete, Joshua Blake, won both the senior men’s 800m and 1,500m events.
He clocked 1:58.45 to easily win the 800m and then ran 4:16.14 to hold off Erme Valley’s Matthew Gilvear in the 1,500m.
Tavistock’s Freddie Whybrow was first under-15 in the 1,500m with a 4:25.10 run, while Tavistock’s Eldon Young (2:16.31) and Plymouth’s Elsie Goodspeed (2:19.97) won the under-15 800m events and Benjamin Marriott was first in the 3,000m in 9:44.01.
City of Plymouth’s Robyn Summers enjoyed an encouraging 300m hurdles debut, clocking 49.44 seconds to win the under-17 girls’ event.
In the sprint hurdles, Erme Valley Harriers’ Isabella Trowell opened her season with a victory and a PB of 12.83 seconds in the under-17 80m race, while City of Plymouth’s Tilly Day was quickest under-13 over the 70m barriers with a 14.37 second run.
As per usual, the hammer events were strong on Sunday, with Tavistock AC throwers dominating.
Tegan Brown threw an impressive 51.90m to win the under-17 event ahead of her team-mate Hazel Stead, who threw 46.05m.
Just 27cm separated Tavistock’s Ella Patterson and Louisa Hess in the under-20 hammer. Patterson took victory with 40.53m and Hess was second with 40.26. Owen Fileman won the under-20 men’s event with 47.48m.
Hazel Stead also secured victory in the under-17 discus with 27.61m, while Erme Valley’s Isabella Trowell won the same age group’s shot event with 9.33m.
Full results can be found HERE.
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