Day 2 of the Northern Athletics Indoor Championships 2017

Another day of great athletics at the EIS, Sheffield saw several personal bests and a couple of Championship Records bettered on Day 2 of the 2017 Northern Athletics Indoor Championships.

 Jacqueline Fairchild (Trafford) winning the Senior Women's 800m to add to the 1500m she won yesterday

 Scott Lincoln (City of York) who won the Senior Men's Shot Putt in a CR of 18.87m

Daniel Eckersley (Kingston AC) won the Senior Men's 1500m ahead of  Hassan Ben-Tiba (New Marske Harriers) who came in fourth but won the U20 Men's 1500m

 Karla Drew (City of Sheffield and Dearne) on the blocks for the semi-final of the Senior Women's 200m

 Oluwaseun Okome (Sale Harriers) won the Senior Men's Triple Jump with 15.05m

 Antonio Infantino (Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers) won the Senior Men's 200m in 21.04

Adam Hague (City of Sheffield and Dearne) won the Senior Men's Pole Vault with 5.20m

Photos from the event can be purchased from:  http://www.peverilphoto.com/section665568_713391.html

Results etc can be seen at: http://www.northernathletics.org.uk/events/northern-athletics-snru20u17-indoor-tf-champs/

Great first day at the Northern Athletics Indoor Championships

A great first day of the weekend's action from the Northern Athletics Indoor Championships was had at  the EIS, Sheffield.

2012 heptathlete Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill was presented with a bowl in recognition of her relationship with Northern Athletics over the years, and a pin from Yorkshire Athletics for her Olympic achievements.

 

Nisha Desai (Trafford) winning the Senior Women's 300m

 Rebecca Campsall (City of York) winning the Senior Women's 60m

 Rob Shipley (Durham University AC) winning the Senior Men's 400m

 Tiarnan Crorken (Preston Harriers) pips Josh Allen (Middlesbrough) to the U20 Men's 1500m

 Karla Drew (City of Sheffield and Dearne) on her way to winning the Senior Womens 60m hurdles

Amelia Bunton (Wakefield) winning the U17 Women's 300m

Photos from the event can be purchased from:  http://www.peverilphoto.com/section665568_713391.html

Results etc can be seen at: http://www.northernathletics.org.uk/events/northern-athletics-snru20u17-indoor-tf-champs/

Action from Day 2 of the British Athletics Championships

Sprinter James Dasaolu ran 9.93 seconds in a wind-assisted men's 100m final to win the battle of the British sprint kings and book a seat on the plane to his second Olympic Games.  The 2014 European 100m champion held off the fast-finishing James Ellington (9.96) and CJ Ujah (9.97) in a final that thrilled the crowd at the Alexander Stadium, Birmingham.  Ellington was elated to claim seecond place and an automatic Olympic place.  With the men's 200m runners also in good form this season it bodes well for the relays at both distances.

Earlier Asha Philip won her third British 100m title with Dina Asher-Smith saving herself for the 200m, and Tiffany Porter beat her younger sister Cindy Ofili in the women's 100m hurdles final.

More Olympic places for Andy Butchart and Tom Farrell in the men's 5,000m.   Sophie Hitchon confirmed her place in the hammer, and Holly Bradshaw did the same in the pole vault with a season's best clearance of 4.60m.

Some photos of the action from Day 2 of the 2016 British Athletics Championships sponsored by Muller.

 Dwain Chambers (Belgrave Harriers) running 10.31 in heat 3 of the men's 100m

 Rachel Hunter (Shaftesbury Barnet) who threw 61.37 in the women's hammer

 David Dempsey (City of Sheffield) ran 1:50.51 in men's 1500m heats

 Nicholas Percy (Shaftesbury) winning the men's discus with 60.43m

 Michael Rimmer (Liverpool Harriers) winning heat 2 of the men's 800m in 1:50.77

 Nigel Levine (Windsor, Slough & Eton) and Martyn Rooney (Croydon) in heat 3 of the men's 400m

 Rob Mullett (Lewes) winning the men's 3000m steeplechase in 8:41.67

 Andrew Butchart (Central AC) winning the men's 5000m in 13:44.0

 Tiffany Porter (Woodford Green & Essex) winning the women's 100m hurdles in 12.91

 James Dasoulu (right) winning the men's 100m final ahead of Jamess Ellington (left) and Chijindu Ujah (centre) with times 9.96, 9.97 and 9.93

 James Dasoulu (Croydon) and Asha Philip (Newham Essex Beagles) - winners of the men's and women's 100m

 Rebecca Campsall (City of York) running 11.76 in the women's 100m semi-final

 Karla Drew (City of Sheffield) winning heat 3 of the women's 100m hurdles in 13.39

 Emily Diamond (Bristol & West) winning heat 1 of the women's 400m in 52.87

 Dai Greene (Swansea) second in heat 4 of the men's 400m in 51.16

Eilidh Doyle (Pitreavie AC) winning heat 2 of the women's 400m hurdles in 56.30

Action from Day 2 of the UK Indoor Athletics Championships

On another busy day of top athletics at the EIS, Sheffield Jenny Meadows won the 800 metres at the British Indoor Championships in Sheffield,  clocking 2 minutes 1.43 seconds for her seventh title at the event.

 

Laura Muir took 1500m gold in 4:13.06 seconds

Nigel Levine clocked 46.86 seconds to win the men's 400m title for a record fifth successive time and meet the European qualifying standard.

 

Tom Bosworth smashed his lifetime best to take victory in the Men’s 3,000m walk in a time of 11:30.35 seconds

 Luke Cutts and Adam Hague pushed each other on to take gold and silver in the Men's Pole Vault:

 

 Katarina Johnson-Thompson followed up her high jump record yesterday with a new PB in the 60m hurdles (a 34 point improvement)

and then rushed to congratulate winner Serita Solomon who took the title in 8.04secs.

 

 

Good performances again from local athletes Karla Drew and Kristie Edwards

 

Will need plenty of time this week to go through the rest of the photos.....

Good performances in the England Athletics Combined Event 2015

Some photos from the first athletics meeting of the year.  I'm hoping that 2015 will start off in the same explosive way that 2014 did. 

Joe Hobson (City of Sheffield AC) putting in a good performance of 8.76 seconds in the Men's Junior 60m hurdles.

 Tom Bosworth (Tonbridge AC) won the 3k walk in a time of 11:52:36

Karla  Drew (City of Sheffield AC) on her way to 1.74m in the Senior Women's High Jump and a total of 4,199 points to win the Senior Women's heptathlon.

Jo Rowland (Crawley AC) on her way to 12.48m in the Senior Women's Shot Putt and a total of 4,115 points to third in the Senior Women's heptathlon.