NECAA Indoor Pentathlon - Multi-eventers star as Indoor season ends

The long indoor season finally came to an end on Sunday, as Team Blyth athletes went up against athletes from the North East and all over the UK at a sell-out NECAA Indoor Pentathlon. Here is how the day unfolded

U13's
India Gorvett began the day with a solid hurdles, before smashing out a big new personal best in the shot put. The long jump proved to be the most challenging event of day for India as recorded a pair of fouls, but she bounced back in the high jump with a 1.28m clearance. This set her up for a grand finale, with a chance of bronze medal. Sadly it wasnt quite to be, despite running a brilliant PB in her 60m she missed out on bronze by the smallest of margins. Meanwhile, Alex Robson-Lamb was embarking his first pentathlon. He produced a consistent series of perfomances in the hurdles, high jump and long jump, and set a new personal best in the shot put. He headed into the 60m in 2nd place, and held on to this position to take a well earned silver medal.

U15's  
Caitlin Creaby, Aman Sanghera and Fearne Bell all began with the hurdles - with Caitlin knockong nearly a second off her previous best, and Fearne completing her first U15 race safely. The long jump was solid, if not spectacular for the girls, as they started to accumulate solid scores. In the shot put there were big new personal bests for Caitlin and Fearne, whilst the high jump provided one of the most stressful moments of the day as Caitlin failed her first two attempts at her opening height, before clearing on her first attempt. Aman had a superb high jump, setting a new personal best to move up the rankings. In the 60m, Aman and Fearne finished their comps strongly to set overall pentathlon PB's, whilst Caitlin stormed to victory in her heat to take a superb silver medal.

U17's 
Talia Green, Amber Wright and Isla Bell went in the U17 event, and all safely navigated the hurdles with a new PB for Isla. She continued this PB form in the long jump leaping to a new best of 4.46m, whilst Amber and Talia were both not far off their best, and racked up great points. In the high jump, Talia cleared her 2nd highest height ever, with Amber delighted with 1.49m. Isla continued her amazing start to the comp with another PB and her first time over 1.40m. Sadly Talia then had to withdraw due to an injury concern, whilst Isla and Amber moved onto the shot put which was slightly below expectation for both. Heading into the 60m, the girls were in the top 2 positions and produced fine runs, with Amber becoming NECAA Pentathlon champion and Isla taking silver, both with huge overall PB's for this event.

It was another fantastic combined events comp for our young athletes, as they once again showed great passion spirit and determination.

Results