Report by Peter Impett
Wimborne AC athletes brought home a hatful of medals from the South West Athletics Championships held at the Exeter Arena. Standout performances came from Mila Desborough who set a new Championship Best Performance in the Under 15 Girls Javelin with a personal best and national lead distance of 45m97. Lani Moore is also at Number 1 in the UK in the under 13 hurdles and won both that event in 11.70 and the high jump with 1m40, Kayla Robbins with a new personal best of 1m63 extinguished the previous eighteen-year-old club record and won bronze in the under 15 long jump 4m84.
There were also gold medals for Lila Baines 4m59 in the under 13 long jump and Maisie Robbins 8m26 in the shot. Maisie also won bronze in the javelin with 22m30. Elliott Trickey got close to his personal best with a 12m36 under 15 winning triple jump. Ava Elliott-Smith won silver in the under 15 10012.60 and 200 26.28. Rosie Gollings was second in the long jump beating Kayla by 2cm and also had a silver in the 300 metres in 42.76.
Bronze medals went to Tom Faulkner in the under 13 800 metres 2,33,11 and Zac Johnson threw 7m43 in the shot. Tilly Pretty won bronze in the Shot 7m49 and Discus15m82 and Ren Turner 28m38 in the javelin in a very good day for the umder13s.
