Monday, 20 February 2017

Muller Indoor Athletics Grand Prix

After a break in Glasgow last year, the Barclaycard Arena (formerly the National Indoor Arena) in Birmingham again hosted the British Athletics Indoor Grand Prix, sponsored by Muller.

Even without Katarina Johnson-Thompson, absent due to a minor hamstring strain, there were many top athletes in attendance.  It was an exciting afternoon of competition, capped off with the farewell indoor performance of Mo Farah.
 Sally Pearson (Australia) on the comeback trail in the Women's 60m Hurdles - winning her heat but eventually coming third.
 Adele Tracey (Great Britain), Women's 800m
 Kim Collins (St Kitts & Nevis) making his 50th appearance in Britain, winning his heat of the Men's 60m
 Elaine Thompson (Jamaica) winning her heat of the Women's 60m
 Eilidh Doyle (Great Britain) lining up for the start of the Women's 400m
 Andrew Pozzi (Great Britain) takes another World Lead and PB of 7.43 in the Men's 60m Hurdles
 Jenny Meadows (GB) paced Laura Muir (GB) for the first three laps of her attempt at the Women's 1000m
 Laura Muir then took over, chasing 2:32.96 set by Dame Kelly Holmes at this meeting back in 2004
She set a European record of 2:31.93
 And first to congratulate her was Jenny Meadows
In the final event of a memorable day, Sir Mo Farah at his last indoor track event, broke the British record in the Men’s 5000m, in a time of 13:09.16.
 

 More photos available at: http://www.peverilphoto.com/section665568_713390.html




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