GALLERY: Young and Bolt set quickest times as Tavistock hosts latest round of the Summer Middle Distance Series

ELDON Young and Evie Bolt ran the quickest male and female times as the latest Summer Middle Distance Series was held on Friday evening at Tavistock.

The series, organised by City of Plymouth AC in conjunction with Run Fit, Run Fast, had previously seen mile and 1,200m races at Brickfields.

This time it was Tavistock’s turn to host a meeting and UK number two ranked under-16 1,500m athlete Freddie Whybrow helped pace a couple of the younger age races.

The final – and fastest – A heat saw Tavistock AC’s under-16 runner Young power to victory in 2:44.5.

City of Plymouth’s Finley Eales was second in 2:56.2, just ahead of Tavistock’s Arthur Norton, who clocked 2:57.1.

City of Plymouth’s under-12 athlete Evie Bolt was the only female in the final heat and she clocked 3:25.0.

The B heat was won by City of Plymouth’s Chloe Souness who just held off her club colleague Ivy Ling. Both are under-12 and Souness clocked 3:33.6, with Ling running 3:34.0.

City of Plymouth under-14 athlete Juliette Salmon convincingly won the group C heat in 3:32.5, while Elsie Penney was the first under-10 girl in 3:53.0.

In the opening race, Oliver Neale (under-14) was the first junior in 3:24.5.

Also on the evening, there was a 200m hurdles race for under-14s. City of Plymouth’s Seth Gibbs was first boy in 32.6, while Tilly Day was first girl in 33.1 seconds.

Results of the 1,000m races can be found HERE.

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