Scottish Inter Regional Championships

Scottish Inter Regional Championships
Wishaw
10/05/09

After the typhoon yesterday at Wishaw, the weather was considerably better senior athletes, although there was some strong winds that made life difficult for all the athletes. Despite the weather, several local athletes were in PB breaking mode.

Nicola Hood (VP-Glasgow) continued her good early season form with another impressive victory over the Steeplechase barriers. Running for West City, she once again obliterated the field with a dominating 13 second win over the 2000m distance. She broke her PB by 8 seconds, coming home in 6:54.00.

Hope Robertson (Edinburgh AC) once again proved she is the best junior sprinter at a national level with 3rd and 2nd place in the 100m and 200m respectively. In the 100m, she ran 12.69 into a fierce -2.7 headwind, finishing behind Stacey Downie and guest athlete Laura Davies. In the 200m, the headwind was slightly less with -0.5. This allowed Hope to run a good run of 25.53 to finish again behind Stacey Downie. Not bad considering Hope is 5 years younger than Downie.

Josh Crawford (Edinburgh AC) also secured 2nd place in the B String 200m. The -2.4 headwind prevented him from going under 23 seconds, but he still ran a 23.05 SB.

Kirsty Barr (VP-Glasgow) was another winner on the day with 1= in the HJ. After a below par 1.50m opener in April, Kirsty looked a lot better with 1.65m, which equals her PB. She was joined in the HJ by Jane Scott (Stewartry AC) who was 2nd in the B string with 1.50m, an equal SB. But Jane's best result came in the LJ, where she added 5cm to her Pb with 5.37m. This gave her 2nd place in the A string LJ. Jane also ran a fabulous 15.89 in the 100m Hurdles into a -1.5 wind. This was 2nd place in the B string after a close finish with Highland and Grampian's Sylvia Kamya. Kamya finished just 0.01 of a second ahead of Jane.

Colette Irvine (ADAC) and Jayne Kirkpatrick (Nithsdale AC) competed in the A and B strings of the Javelin for West Coast. Colette finished 4th in the A string with 30.11m, her 2nd furthest throw ever. Not bad for the youngest competitor. Jayne also produced a good 28.24m throw to win the B string convincingly.