Manchester International, NOTAN Summer Grand Prix & York Open

Sadie Parker received an invite to compete in last weekends Manchester International, which was a World Athletics Challenger event, and drew a top class international field. 

In the long jump, she went up against the very best from the home countries, however was not quite able to find the board accuracy that she wanted. Nonetheless, her best of 5.66m was enough for 5th place, and 1st U20. The weather then turned for the worse, and heavy rain awaited for the 100m Hurdles. Sadie was involved in a head-to-head against 2018 Commenwealth Heptathlon medalist Niamh Emerson - what an opportunity for Sadie! She made a sensational start, getting to the first hurdle in a clear lead, which she mainained to hurdle 3 befor Niamh Emerson came through to win. Sadie was rewarded with a legal PB of 15.03 (+1.4m/s).

At the final NOTAN Summer Grand Prix, there were fine performance from our young team. Harris, Noah, Jack and Alex all gave it their all in the sprint, endurance run, long jump and howler throw.

Its fantastic to see them developing their multi-event skills. Full results are below.

Finally for this update, Hollie-Anne Sudder travelled to York, and took the U17 200m in a strong headwind.

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