National Schools Championships - 11th/12th Jul 2008 - Gateshead
Athletes from WSEH were dominant in the English Schools National Athletics Championships in Gateshead at the weekend with the club supplying no fewer than 4 National Champions.
Deji Tobais blazed an unbeaten trail through heats and semi finals to then win the Inter Boys 100m Final in 10.68 secs. Rikki Letch repeated the feat in the 800m to emerge champion in 1m55.55 secs. Shelayna Oskan eased straight into the Final from the heats of the 400m to record perhaps the surprise win of the day in the Senior Girls 400m in 55.87 secs. In the same age group Sophie Upton leapt to a new pb of 3m70 to win the Pole Vault.
Seamus Burke showed control to safely negotiate the heats, semi finals of the junior Boys 200m, emerging with a bronze medal in the Final with a time of 23.30 secs, after clocking 23.09 secs in his heat. In the Senior Boys Triple Jump Michael Puplampu took the silver medal with his 14m40. Also in this age group, Laurie Clarke repeated silver in the 110m hurdles with 14.35 secs and former champion Cameron Lake took bronze in the High Jump with 1m93. In the Inter Girls 80m Hurdles WSEH provided two of the finalists with Chanel Taite taking silver in 11.31 secs.
Other WSEH athletes to make Finals were:
Junior Boys:
80mHurdles Alex Peden 5th 11.44 secs, Sam Maguire 8th 11.63 secs
Hammer Teo Kubeina 8th 45m33
Inter Boys:
100m Tom Evans 8th 11.30 secs
400m Marc Forrest – Did not start – injured.
Javelin Blake Crowe 10th 49m93
1500m Elliot Woolmer 10th 4m09.5
Senior Boys:
1500m Rhys Glastonbury 11th 4m02.11
Junior Girls:
Javelin Sarah Taplin12th 29m66
Inter Girls:
80m Hurdles Catherine Hall-Jones 5th 11.57secs
300m Hurdles Laura Burke 7th 46.43 secs
Senior Girls:
100m Hurdles Jenny Heckford 5th 14.57 secs, Rose Reynolds dq – leg infringement
800m Vicky Fouhy 5th 2m11.53 secs
Shot Bunmi Awokoya 10th 10m73
