CITY of Plymouth’s Annabelle Fasuba completed her stunning season in style by smashing two league records at the final South West League meeting of the year at Exeter on Sunday.
The double English Schools’ champion has won all before her in 2025 and has broken the British record for the under-15 girls’ 100m and equalled it over the 200m distance.
On Sunday she broke her own league marks, which she set last year, in the 100m and 200m events with eye-catching displays.
She clocked 11.72 seconds to win a high-class under-15 girls’ 100m, where the top three ran inside 12.79 seconds, and then the 14-year-old Combe Dean pupil ran 23.79 seconds for the 200m.
Even if the age groups were not changing next year, those records would be hard to beat.
Apart from Fasuba, only Olympic medallist Katharine Merry has run quicker than the new league record over 200m at that age and in the 100m only Jodie Williams, Ashleigh Nelson and Merry are the other athletes all-time to have run quicker over the 100m,
The times were just outside Fasuba’s record-breaking bests this year, which stand at 11.51 for the 100m and 23.72 for the 200m, although she did run a wind-assisted 23.47 seconds at Lee Valley just last week.
Fellow English Schools’ track medallist Nicolas Maczugowski was also in action for the Armada team at Exeter, but not in his usual 400m hurdles event. He ran the 100m and 200m at the weekend.
He broke his 100m PB with a 11.06 second run in the joint senior and under-20 race, where he came second, while he won the 200m in 22.35 seconds.
There was a 200m win for Tavistock’s Jade Kinsey in the women’s event, clocking 25.65 seconds, while Plymouth’s Nia Harradine-Cole won the senior women’s/under-20 100m in 12.96 seconds.
Tavistock’s Joe Wake was second in the under-17 100m with an 11.62 second run, having played rugby the day before.
Plymouth’s Finley Bennett won the under-17 400m hurdles in 61.80 seconds and also came third in the 800m in 2:07.78.
Tavistock’s Jasmine Gray and Eldon Young were other track winners on the day, taking victories in the 800m. Gray won the senior women’s race in 2:16.39, while Young triumphed in the under-15 boys’ event in 2:17.61.
Also, over two laps, Lucas Sweeney came second in the under-13 boys’ race, while City of Plymouth team-mate Elsie Goodspeed was third in the under-15 girls’ event.
In the field events, Tavistock’s Charlotte Doney won the under-17 discus and shot. She threw 28.73m in the discus, where her sister, Isabelle, finished second with 26.59m, and managed 8.75m to take victory in the shot.
England Schools’ international Phoebe Milburn won the senior/under-20 hammer with a throw of 46.06m, with her Tavistock club colleague Hazel Stead, competing up an age group, taking second with 40.76m. Stead also came third in the women’s discus.
George Brown won the under-17 boys’ hammer with 40.83m, while Tavistock colleague Katelyn Milburn came second in the both the senior/U20 long jump and triple jump.
Leifr Fridrickkson picked up valuable points for the Armada team by winning the senior men’s discus, taking third in the hammer and fourth in the shot.
Elsewhere, at the Haytor Heller fell race, Erme Valley Harriers won both the men’s and women’s team events.
Erme Valley’s men’s team were led home by youngster Luke Hayes, who finished fifth overall and was first junior, while team-mate Charlie Milward was eighth.
The race was won by Exeter’s Ben Perry, who edged out over-50 veteran Ceri Rees, who came second.
Erme Valley’s Chris Prall was first M40 and 10th overall, while Plymstock Road Runners’ Graham Bale won the M60 category.
Jo Meek was second woman overall and first F45, while Erme Valley’s Jennifer Hayes (F45), Emma Lake (F50) and Lynne Whitfield (F55) were all second in their categories.
At the Treggy 7 at Launceston on Sunday, Tavistock’s Hannah Worth was second woman overall and first F40.
Club team-mate Jenny Jeeves was first F55, while there were also age category wins for East Cornwall’s Revis Crowle (F60), Tamar Trotters’ Jane Bremner (F65), while Tavistock AC’s Grant Harvey (M40) and Anthony Shearer (M70) were second in their age groups.
Meanwhile, Erme Valley Harriers’ David Engledew and East Cornwall Harriers’ Jenny Nash have been selected to represent England against Wales at the first masters’ representative trail race over the half marathon distance which will take place in the Forest of Dean on September 28.