BEN PROUD admitted it felt ‘surreal’ to have become the first person ever to win the World, European and Commonwealth 50m freestyle titles in the same year. The former Plymouth College swimmer completed the unique triple on Wednesday evening in the final session of swimming action at the European Championships in Rome. Proud managed to … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth’s Nicolas Maczugowski ran a new 400m hurdles personal best to claim a silver medal at the South of England Under-17 Championships at Chelmsford. Maczugowski clocked 56.88 seconds, which was more than a second faster than he had previous run, to finish behind English Schools’ runner-up Hayden Christian at the championships. He did … Continue reading
DEVONPORT Services’ new head coach Ben Russell and his Saltash counterpart Steve Down were both happy after their opening pre-season match at Keyham on Tuesday night. Newly-promoted Regional One South West side Services eventually ran out 36-7 winners against Counties Two Cornwall side Saltash, but they were made to work hard for their victory on … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth athlete David King eased into the semi-finals of the 110m hurdles at the European Championships in Munich on Tuesday morning. King, drawn in the inside lane, finished second in his heat with a comfortable 13.63 second run. He now has his eye on trying to reach the final in Germany on Wednesday … Continue reading
DEVONPORT Services begin their preparations for life at level five tonight when they host Saltash at Keyham in a pre-season friendly (7pm). Services secured a place in the newly-named Regional One South West league, formerly known as the South West Premier, after finishing as runners-up in South West One last season. It was their second … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH diver Aidan Heslop heads into this week’s European Championships in confident mood after another medal-winning performance at the latest Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series event in Oslo. Heslop took bronze in Norway in front of 55,000 people with 427.70 points, finishing behind nine-times champion Gary Hunt, who scored 444.90 points, and Italian Alessandro … Continue reading
TAMAR Saracens and Tavistock both took positives from their opening pre-season match played in hot conditions at Parkway on Friday night. Higher league Tavistock won the warm-up game 19-0 thanks to tries from Martin Budden, Angus Hogg and Jack Osborne and two conversions from scrum-half George Hillson. But Tamar Saracens, under a new coaching set-up … Continue reading
ERME Valley Harriers teenager Matthew Gilvear produced an impressive run in hot conditions to win his club’s newest race. Gilvear overcame far more experienced rivals to take victory in Thursday evening’s Ivybridge Three Tops race, which was the latest event in the increasing popular Dartmoor Fell Series. The tough new approximately 10k fell race saw … Continue reading
ERME Valley Harriers’ steeplechase star Will Battershill showed his flat speed improvement on Wednesday night by smashing his 1,500m personal best at the BMC Gold Standard Meeting in Watford. Battershill clocked 3:41.80 to finish fifth in a top-quality race won by recent Commonwealth Games finalist and Olympian Elliot Giles. It was Battershill’s first 1,500m race … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth’s teenage pole vaulter Noah Jones smashed his personal best at the South West League meeting at Exeter Arena on Sunday. Jones leaped 4.10m to take victory in the joint senior men’s/under-20 event which was nine centimetres more than he had ever jumped before. He had only set a new PB of 4.01m … Continue reading