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Palmerston North leads teams competition

Alan Adamson

It was a different feel with the second round of the Central region teams competition split into four separate meetings due to Covid-19.

Palmerston North Athletic and Harrier Club were the winning team on Saturday with 170 points, with Kāpiti Mana second on 132 points and Hastings third on 123.

Palmerston North go into the final round with a commanding lead with a combined 330 points, well clear of Kāpiti Mana’s 220 and Whanganui’s 204.

In the morning meeting, featuring distance events, we witnessed a great display of race walking, with 16-year-old Daniel Du Toit from Wellington establishing a new stadium record, completing the 3km journey in 12m 42.40s.

Second place getter Lucas Martin’s 12m 55.46s time was an Athletics Manawatū record.

Ashhurst’s Ari Bennett, 14, was third in 17m 28.99s, a big personal best.

David Lardner was an impressive winner of the 5000m race, with Nelson Doolan the top local finisher in the 3000m race, finishing third in 9m 5.78s.

Hayley Cornwall was our top finisher in the women’s 800m, finishing third in 2m 23.23s, while in the men’s race Sam White was second in 1m 55.25s. Dirki Botha won the B race in 2m 2.94s.

There were personal bests for Greg Austin, running 2m 6.22s to finish sixth in the B race and Justin Cunningham, who finished in 2m 15.82s for third in the C race.

Emma Fergusson won the 1500m race in a personal best of 4m 46.56s. George Varney was the best local in the men’s race, finishing second in 4m 0.02s.

Unfortunately most of the sprinters had to contend with strong headwinds during the second meeting, but despite this some outstanding performances were recorded.

Palmerston North scored high in the points in this session.

In the women’s 100m and 200m races Chayille Collette was first, Addirra Collette second and Kimberley Walsh third.

Monique Gorrie won the B grade 100m and was fourth in the A grade 200m.

In the men’s races Angus Lyver won the 200m and was third in the 100m.

Forbes Kennedy was the winner of the B grade 100m and was third in the A grade 200m.

In the 400m races, Louis Northcott from Mana was first, with Brayden Grant second and Dirki Botha fourth.

Masters athlete Hayden Robinson ran another big personal best, fiishing third in the C race in 55.28s.

Jayde Rolfe once again knocked on the door for her first sub60-second 400m when she finished third in the women’s A grade race in 60.34s.

Hayley Cornwall won the Brace in 61.78s.

Juliet McKinlay looked good in her hurdle races, running the 80m hurdles in 14.08 sand the 300m hurdles in 55.89s.

Braxton Kauri was the standout hurdler, winning the 110m race in a solo run in 15.56 sand the 300m hurdles in 39.76s, a stadium record, with Aden Porritt second in 40.41s.

The day’s top performance probably came the late afternoon meeting in the men’s long jump, with Angus Lyver not only exceeding 7m for the first time, but he did it on four occasions, with his best effort being 7.35m.

Unfortunately the following wind in three of his jumps exceeded the 2m per second allowance for record purposes, but his fifth-round jump of 7.03m was within the allowable limit and will become an Manawatū-Whanganui record for ages 17-20, bettering records set by David Dewe in 1971.

Dewe competed for the Feilding club and became a national long jump champion.

I have been able to make contact with David, who congratulated Angus and posted a copy of a newspaper article about his record on Facebook.

Like Angus his best effort was also wind assisted and it was one of his lesser performances that has remained on the record books for 50 years. Forbes Kennedy was second with a best of 6.75m.

Nick Fee was out to 6.42m to take third, before rushing over to clear 1.70m for fourth place in the high jump.

We had good representation in the women’s high jump, with Amber Trow clearing 1.58m for third.

Juliet McKinlay and Tayler Trow both cleared 1.43m for fourth and fifth.

McKinlay completed a busy day with a 4.43m leap for fifth in the long jump.

The results were turned on their head in the men’s triple jump in the final round.

Going into the final round Palmerston North athletes Caleb Evans and Sam Lohrey were leading the competition. However, Evan’s best of 12.72m and Lohrey’s best of 12.60m were both surpassed by two other competitors relegating them to third and fourth place.

While we were competing in Palmerston North, Alice Taylor travelled to Christchurch for the South Island combined events championship.

She won the women’s 20 event with a total of 4216 points.

She ran the 100m hurdles in 16.03 s, cleared 1.67 min the high jump, put the shot 8.36m, recorded 28.15 sf or the200m, reached 4.87 min the long jump, threw the javelin 38.15m, then completed her day by finishing the 800 min2m47.56s.

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