In this week's edition of Athletics Weekly

A nice photo of Abby Ward who won the U20 Women's High Jump at the Northern Athletics meeting last weekend:

Top sports action on Day 1 of the UK Indoor Athletics Championships - KJT sets new high jump record

On an amazing first day at the EIS, Sheffield Katarina Johnson-Thompson set a new British high jump record as she defended her indoor title in Sheffield.   The 22-year-old heptathlete (Liverpool Harriers, Mike Holmes) cleared 1.97m and then attempted 2.0m.

Katarina  Johnson-Thompson clears 1.97m at the first attempt

 Morgan Lake clears 1.94m at the first attempt

 There was a strong field in the Women's High Jump to push her on to the new record - Morgan Lake, 17, set a new PB British indoor junior record in clearing 1.94m to finish second, and silver medallist from the 2104 Commonwealth Games Isobel Pooley came in third with 1.88m.  Lake's effort, especially impressive for a 17 year old, was enough to secure her place in the British squad for next month's European Indoor Championships in Prague.

 

Chijindu Ujah stormed to victory in the Men's 60m in 6.57 seconds ahead of  Sean Safo-Antwi (6.66 seconds) and Roy Ejiakuekwu (6.72 seconds).

Dina Asher-Smith won the Women's 60m in 7.15 seconds.

60m hurdler Lawrence Clarke was pushed all the way but won in a strong finish as he returns from injury.  He dipped in 7.69 seconds to qualify for the European Indoor Championships, with David Omoregie second in 7.78 seconds.

 

  Clare Maurer (Woking AC) in action in the Women's pole vault.

 

Abigail Roberts (Wakefield) in action in the Women's pole vault.

In other action from the day, Kristie Edwards (Sheffield AC, Lewis Samuel) came 10th in her first senior 60m and Jenny Meadows (Wigan AC)  won her heat of the Women's 800m.

 

Katarina Johnson-Thompson breaks UK Women's High Jump Record

The Sainsbury’s British Athletics Indoor Championships saw a number of exciting head to heads as British Indoor titles were won, but the biggest highlight of Saturdays performances was undoubtedly a British Women's High Jump record performance by 2013 World Championship fourth placer Katarina Johnson-Thompson.  She simply turned on her high-jumping afterburners as she went on to clear 1.96m to surpass the national record of 1.95m shared by Dianna Davies, Jessica Ennis, Debbi Marti and Susan Moncrieff.
 

Silver-medallist Nisbet not only managed a PB, but her 1.87m clearance marked a Scottish National indoor record for the athlete already bound for the Commonwealth games as part of Team Scotland.

Liverpool Harrier Johnson-Thompson is in sizzling form this year, having already gained several PBs at the Northern Indoor Championships in January and is expected to compete in the pentathlon in Poland and will compete at the Dutch Championships next week in a bid to qualify for the event.  But in Sheffield, Johnson-Thompson - whose previous best in the high jump was 1.89m - eclipsed Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill's high jump best by two centimetres.  "It's a proud moment. I can't believe it," she said.  "I knew I was in good form because I had a good session in Loughborough last week and had a really good high jump session."

See more photos from the event at: Andy Chubb Photography

Sainsbury's School Games 2013

The Sainsbury's 2013 School Games is a multi-sport event that took place from 12-15 September 2013 in Sheffield.

Twelve sports were held across eight venues in the city and after 3 1/2 days I have racked up 2026 pictures on my hard-drive.

About 1,600 of the nation's finest young sports stars competed in:Fencing, Rugby Sevens, Gymnastics, Hockey, Badminton, Athletics, Cycling, Judo, Swimming, Table Tennis, Volleyball and Wheelchair Basketball.

In addition, approximately 700 coaches, support staff and volunteers gave so much to make the event a roaring success.

In a superb performance on the last day of athletics ever to be held at the Don Valley Stadium, Morgan Lake (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow) cleared 1.82m in the Women's High Jump in very blustery conditions to break Katarina Johnson-Thompson's 2008 record of 1.78m