CITY of Plymouth’s sprint sensation Annabelle Fasuba claimed yet another national title on Saturday.
The 14-year-old won the under-17 girls’ 60m title in a new competition record at the England Athletics U20, U17 and U15 Open Indoor Championships in Sheffield.
Fasuba clocked an impressive 7.36 seconds to claim the win, which was a new PB and just 0.02 seconds off the UK under-17 record.
The teenager had won the under-15 60m title last year indoors at the same venue, and also won the outdoor 100m and 200m national crowns, as well as claiming a second English Schools’ title.
After her latest win, she said: “I felt good and I feel like I’ve improved.
“I can’t thank my coach enough. He’s helped such a lot and I can feel myself getting better.”
With no indoor facilities in the region, Fasuba has had to train in the wind and rain at Brickfields this winter.
But she has got on with it and she feels her hard work has been rewarded.
“All the training I have done has helped,” she said.
Fasuba will now turn her attention to the outdoor season where she will be competing in the new under-16 age group.
Having broken the 100m under-15 British record last year and equalled the 200m record, Fasuba is hoping she can go even quicker in 2026.
“I really want to get new PBs in the 100m and 200m as they are my favourite events,” she said.
Also, at the indoor championships in Sheffield, City of Plymouth’s Rory Summers reached the under-20 men’s 400m final.
Summers, who is now a student at Loughborough University, ran 49.28 seconds in his semi-final to book his place in the final, where he finished sixth in 49.76 seconds.
In the under-20 women’s 400m, fellow City of Plymouth athlete Nia Harradine-Cole smashed her PB as she ran 58.11 seconds to finish ninth overall in the heats, where just the top six progressed to the final.
