It was an extremely busy weekend for Team Blyth, with over 40 of our Team Blyth athletes in action on Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
 
Funetics @ Chester-le-Street on Friday
 
Alba and Lucas were our reperesentaives on Friday evening, and they both put in fantastic performances! Alba recorded a superb new PB of 1:57.30 in the 600m, whilst Lucas took part in the 75m, standing long jump, push throw and 600m coming away with a host of PB’s!
 
NESDL @ Whitley Bay on Saturday
 
A number of our older juniors were part of our senior team on Saturday, and their quality and commitment helped the team to a fantastic match win! Luke, Sadie, Senna, George, Kaitlyn, Mia, Xara, Emma, Georgia and Lilia picked up countless points, wins, PB’s and SB’s to cap a fine day
 
Results
 
NEYDL @ Whitley Bay on Sunday
 
We had a fantastic 33 athletes blazing around the track and smashing the field events on Sunday, as we continued our campaign back in the top division. It was great to see so many new faces, and athletes trying events for the first time. We came away with 8 individual wins, and a huge number of new PB’s and club records. The team finished a strong 5th in the match, showing we are more than capable of holding our own in this incredibly competitive league. A huge thanks to team manager Nigel, captains Lily & Harry, and everyone who made the day possible!
 
Results
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It was a stunning weekend for Team Blyth’s athletes at the NECAA Champs at Shildon, with our 30 competitors bringing home medals by the bucketload! There is so much to much to report on, and here are the highlights.
 
Throws
There was total Blyth domination in the hammer, with Fearne, Ben and Georgia all taking gold in their age grops, with Ben also taking further gold stepping up to the U18’s! Bella and Kaitlyn both picked up Silvers. In the discus, there were gold medal performances from Georgia, Lianne and Luke, with a silver for Ben and bronze for Aman and Kaitlyn. Darren took Javelin gold, with silver for Hollie-Anne. The shot put yielded further success with Senna, Lianne and Ben all taking gold, and a bronze for India
 
Sprints
Lauren took our only gold in the sprints, defending her 400m crown, whilst there was silver in the 100m for Daisy, 200m for Didi, 100m for Hollie-Anne and 400m for Kandis. Daisy took bronze in the 200m, with Didi and Faith also picking up bronzes in the U16 and U18 races. Safia recorded 3 PB’s as she made the 100m final, whilst Charlotte just failed to qualify for the 300m final, and Dyland ran a 200m PB
 
Middle Distance
Alastair stormed to a fine victory in the U16B 3000m, whilst George took a fantastic silver in the U18 race. Dexter progressed through the 800m heats and finished 6th in the final. Dylan raced in the 800m and 1500m, recording PB’s in both, whilst Jamie finished 3rd in the 800m “A” race, and was 9th overall
 
Hurdles
The Hurdles yielded a huge number of medals, with Faith taking gold in the sprint hurdles, and Katy, Luke and Sarah all taking silver with a bronze for Fearne, 4th for Aman, 5th for Safia and 6th for Kimi. In the long hurdles, Darren, Mia and Senna all took 400m hurdles gold, whilst Fearne stormed to 300m hurdles victory with India, Aman and Charlotte also making the final.  Nigel took a silver in the senior mens 400m hurdles.
 
Jumps
There were triple jump golds for Didi and Oliver, whilst Luke took pole vault gold in dreadful conditions. There were fine silver medals for Kimi in the Triple jump and Safia in the high jump, whilst Didi took long jump bronze, just ahead of Kimi in 4th
 
GOLD
Alastair Johnston        3000m
Ben Compton                Shot Put
Ben Compton                Hammer
Ben Compton                Hammer
Darren Towart                400m Hurdles
Darren Towart                Javelin
Didi Ojigbani                  Triple Jump
Faith Ubah                       100m Hurdles
Fearne Bell                      300m Hurdles
Fearne Bell                      Hammer
Georgia Turner               Discus
Georgia Turner               Hammer
Lauren Jobson               400m
Lianne Slater                  Discus
Lianne Slater                  Shot Put
Luke Pichler                    Discus
Luke Pichler                    Pole Vault
Mia Liddell                       400m Hurdles
Oliver Geoghegan       Triple Jump
Senna Gorvett               400m Hurdles
Senna Gorvett               Shot Put
               
SILVER
Ben Compton                Discus
Daisy Pratt                        100m
Didi Ojigbani                  200m
George Bryce                 3000m
Hollie-Anne Sudder   100m
Hollie-Anne Sudder   Javelin
Bella Rose                        Hammer
Kaitlyn Waddell            Hammer
Kandis Watson              400m
Katy Pang                         100m Hurdles
Kimi Ng                              Triple Jump
Luke Pichler                    110m Hurdles
Nigel Gorvett                  400m Hurdles
Safia Diallo                      High Jump
Sarah Wright                   80m Hurdles
 Isla Bell                           1500m Steeplechase (from previous weekend)
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BRONZE
Aman Sanghera           Discus
Daisy Pratt                        200m
Didi Ojigbani                  Long Jump
Didi Ojigbani                  100m
Faith Ubah                       100m
Fearne Bell                      80m Hurdles
India Gorvett                   Shot Put
Kaitlyn Waddell            Discus
 

The first NEGP of the season took place on Wednesday, with a huge squad of athletes competing over 150m, 300m 1500m, High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump and Shot Put.

Full results can be seen below, but a special mention to Isla Bell, returning to competition after a long break, and she smashed her 1500m!