ATHLETICS ROUND-UP: Plymouth athletes break their own county records, while Bee impresses in heptathlon

CITY of Plymouth athletes Annabelle Fasuba, Nicolas Maczugowski and Rory Summers all broke their own records at the Devon County Athletics Championships at Exeter on Sunday.

Thirteen-year-old sprint sensation Fasuba smashed the under-15 girls’ 100m and 200m record she set last year.

The English Schools’ champion ran 11.79 seconds in the 100m, which beat the 12.11 second she clocked at the same championships last year.

The new record is going to take some beating as only four under-15 athletes in British history have ever run faster – Jodie Williams, Ashleigh Nelson, Katherine Merry and Nell Desir.

Fasuba, who has run 11.6 this season for the 100m, also impressed in the 200m at the weekend.

She clocked 24.41 seconds to take victory and beat her own county championship record by more than half a second, despite running into a strong head wind. Her best this season is 24.02 that ranks her third on the all-time UK list and is the fastest run by a British under-15 athlete for 36 years.

Maczugowski lowered his own under-20 men’s 400m hurdles record with a 53.51 second run. That was half-a-second quicker than he had achieved at last year’s event and puts him fourth in this year’s UK rankings.

He then helped push his team-mate Summers to a new under-20 men’s 400m record. Summers clocked 48.89 seconds to take the win, with Maczugowski taking second in 49.85 seconds.

Tavistock’s Phoebe Milburn came agonisingly close to breaking her own under-20 Devon hammer record. She took victory with a throw of 47.40m, which was just 10cm off her mark at last year’s championships.

Her club colleagues, Ella Patterson (39.64m) and Louisa Hess (35.93m) took the other medals in the hammer event.

Fellow Tavistock thrower Tegan Brown threw a season’s best mark of 52.44m to win the under-17 girls’ hammer title, which ranks her fourth in the UK. Her team-mate Hazel Stead was second with 47.52m.

Stead won the under-17 girls discus gold with 28.77m, while Patterson triumphed in the under-20 discus with 30.76m.

Owen Fileman took gold in the under-20 hammer with 44.72m.

Fellow Tavistock thrower Josh Tyler won the men’s shot with 15.09m and the hammer with 45.14m, while Evie Palmer took victory in the under-17 girls javelin with 33.73m.

There was an impressive under-20 110m hurdles race featuring Exeter’s Joshua Taylor and City of Plymouth’s Adam Dingley.

Taylor won in a championship record and UK-leading time of 13.87 seconds, with Dingley clocking 14.37 seconds, which also ranks him in the UK’s top six.

Dingley did equal his 100m PB of 11.37 seconds as he also took silver in that event.

Erme Valley Harriers’ Isabella Trowell won the under-17 girls’ 80m hurdles with a 12.78 second run, while she also took silver in the triple jump with 10.41m and the long jump with 5.00m.

City of Plymouth’s Evie Welsh won the under-13 girls’ 70m hurdles in a PB time of 14.09 seconds, with her club colleague Orla Findlay not far behind in a PB time of 14.57.

Welsh also took gold in the under-13 girls’ 800m in 2:31.86.

There was also hurdles success for Plymouth’s Robyn Summers, who won the under-17 girls’ 300m hurdles event in a PB time of 49.42.

Elsie Goodspeed (City of Plymouth) set a new best time of 2:18.44 to win the under-15 girls’ 800m, while Tavistock’s Thomas Hennessey was second in the boys’ race in that age group with a 2:08.13 run.

Tavistock’s Caleb Gifford-Groves took gold in the under-17 boys’ 800m in 2:05.66, while his team-mate Freddie Whybrow won the under-15 boys’ 1,500m in 4:26.44.

Fellow Tavistock middle distance specialist Connor Duffin topped the podium in the under-17 1,500m with a 4:27.1 run.

Also in the 1,500m events, Erme Valley’s Dougal Buzza ran a new PB of 5:05.74 to take silver in the under-13 boys’ race and also won the long jump, while Tavistock’s Olivia Walkerdine and Erme Valley’s Harriet Rogers were second and third in that age group’s girls’ race with PB times of 5:23.31 and 5:29.76, respectively.

City of Plymouth’s Nia Harradine-Cole took gold in the under-20 women’s 400m in 59.07 seconds, while club colleague Finley Bennett topped the podium in the under-17 boys’ event with 55.77.

Tavistock’s Jade Kinsey won the senior women’s 400m and 200m titles, while Plymouth’s Oliver Bidewell took gold in both the under-13 boys’ 100m and 200m.

Erme Valley’s Isabelle Drew took gold in the under-15 girls’ high jump with a leap of 1.40m, while Plymouth’s Chloe Edwards won the senior women’s and F35 shot with 10.67m and took age group gold in the discus with 28.49m.

Tavistock’s Katelyn Milburn won silver medals in the under-20 women’s triple jump and long jump.

Full results can be found HERE.

At the Cornwall County Championships, City of Plymouth’s Jacob Lamboll took gold in the senior men’s 400m in 48.9 seconds, while Jasmine Gray won the senior women’s 800m in 2:16.4.

There were also 800m golds for Plymouth’s Taylan Jones and Lucas Sweeney. Jones ran a PB time of 2:13.5 to win the under-15 age group and Sweeney clocked 2:29.1 to take victory in the under-13 category.

Full results can be found HERE.

Over in America, City of Plymouth’s Emily Bee continued her impressive season by smashing her PB in her first heptathlon for three years.

Bee scored an eye-catching 5,205 points to finish second for Youngstown University in the Horizon League Championship.

That score put her fourth overall in the UK 2025 rankings.

She ran 13.79 seconds for the 100m hurdles, leaped 1.64m in the high jump, threw 9.04m in the shot, achieved 5.72m in the long jump, 36.15m in the javelin and finished with a 2.27 800m.

She also took silver in the individual 100m hurdles. She ran 13.85 seconds in the heats and then ran a wind-assisted 13.52 seconds. She is currently ranked fourth in the UK in the women’s sprint hurdles.