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The sun shone brilliantly over Swansea Bay as a number of Newport Harriers’
Athletes produced equally stunning performances in the Welsh Track and Field
Championships on the weekend. Newport took 5th place in the medal table 8 places
higher than local rivals Cwmbran with 5 gold, 6 silver and 5 bronze medals.
Cwmbran had only one gold medallist on the weekend.
The most exciting race of the weekend was the under 15 boy’s 1500 metres which
Elliott Hardee led from the gun to win by exactly 1 tenth of a second from team
mate Dan Chesworth. The two boy’s were locked together for most of the race
before Hardee’s strength took him clear in the last few metres.
Equally as exciting was the under 15 boy’s long jump with Michael Payne added
almost half a metre to his personal best, jumping 5 metres 73 centimetres to pip
team mate James Morgan by only 1 centimetre. Payne later took second place in
the 400 metres.
In contrast Rhianne Jones had things pretty much her own way as she stormed to a
victory by a margin of 1.5 seconds in the senior women’s 400 metres, recording a
personal best time of 56.81 seconds. James Nasrat had a tougher job in the men’s
400 metres winning in a time of 48.59 only 4 hundredths of a second ahead of
second placed runner Tom Miller from Cardiff.
Bethan Hill-Howells extended her lead at the top of the Welsh Rankings in the
under 13 girl’s high jump clearing 1 metre 37 centimetres to win the event.
Melissa Arthur had been struggling for form in the weeks coming into the
championships, but everything clicked into place on the weekend as she improved
her personal best in taking silver in the under 15 girl’s javelin. Jade Guy in
only her 5th meeting in a Harriers vest took silver in the under 13 girl’s
javelin.
In the under 20 Mens 5 kilometre race Nathan Hardee, who has ambitions to take
his father’s club record for the event won a silver medal and Aimee Clark
competing for Cwmcarn school was narrowly beaten into second place in the under
13 girl’s shot.
Bronze medals came from Jacob Matthews in the senior men’s shot and discus, Tom
Kivell in the senior men’s triple jump, Oliver Hudson in the under 13 boy’s long
jump, Craig Russell in the senior men’s 400 metre hurdles and the under 13 boy’s
4*100 metre relay.
Congratulations too to former Newport Harrier Lara Richards on her victory in
the Senior Women’s Long Jump Final with a leap of 5m 80 cm.
High Jump Final Bethan Hill-Howells 1m 37 cm 1st Shot Aimee Clark (Cwmcarn School) 9m 30 cm 2nd Javelin Jade Guy 20m 36 cm 2nd Long Jump Final Bethan Hill-Howells 4m 06 cm 4th Emma Hennessey 3m 31 cm 19th 100M Heats Aimee Clark (Cwmcarn School) 15.24s 7th Emma Hennessey 15.19 6th
Long Jump Final Oliver Hudson 4m 54 cm 3rd Kyle Arnold 3m 84 cm 11th 4x100M Relay 58.42s 3rd 100M Final Oliver Hudson 14.1s 6th 100M Heat Oliver Hudson 14.1s 2nd 200M Final Oliver Hudson 29.84 6th 200M Heats Oliver Hudson 29.30s 4th 1500M Final Rhys Norris 5m 03.80s 7th William Bradley 5m13.46 9th High Jump Final Kyle Arnold 1m 00 cm 9th
Long Jump Final Michael Payne 5m 73 cm 1st James Morgan 5m 72 cm 2nd Taylor Jones 4m 29 cm 9th 1500m Final Elliott Hardee 4m 16.84s 1st Daniel Chesworth 4m 16.94s 2nd Curtis Goodger 4m 58.25 13th 400M Final Michael Payne 54.26s 2nd Discus Final Matt Arnold 10m 96 cm 7th Hammer Final Matt Arnold 14m 39 cm 4th 200M Final James Morgan 24.78s 4th 200M Heats Taylor Jones 29.77s 6th James Morgan 24.27s 2nd 100M Final James Morgan 12.31s 4th 100M Heat James Morgan 12.20s 2nd Declan O’Brien 13.25s 7th
Javelin Final Melissa Arthur 26m 67 cm 2nd 300M Heat Lauren Archer 44.30s 3rd 300M Final Lauren Archer 44.54 6th
400M Final Rhianne Jones 56.81s 1st Discus Final Sian Jordan 26m 37 cm 6th 200M Heats Kirsty Crane 28.52s 5th 100M Heats Kirsty Crane 14.0s 6th
400M Final James Nasrat 48.59s 1st 400M Heats James Nasrat 54.45s 3rd Craig Russell 56.21s 4th 5000M Final Nathan Hardee 15m 50.40s 2nd Shot Final Jacob Matthews 12m 34 cm 3rd Discus Final Jacob Matthews 43m 16 cm 3rd Triple Jump Thomas Kivell 13m 21 cm 3rd 400M Hdls Final Craig Russell 73.82s 3rd Long Jump Final Thomas Kivell 6m 24 cm 5th 1500M Heat Jonathon Morgan 4m 01.03s 6th 1500M Final Jonathon Morgan 4m 06.19s 9th 800M Final Lee Richards 2m 02.12s 7th
Club Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Swansea 16 16 15 47 2 Carmarthen 10 6 12 28 3 Cardiff 9 13 11 33 4 Bridgend 6 2 9 17 5 Newport 5 6 5 15 6 Sale 5 1 0 6 7 Pembrokeshire 4 1 3 8 8 Colwyn Bay 4 0 0 4 9 Deeside 3 4 1 8 10 Wrexham 3 2 2 7 11 Bristol & West 2 1 1 4 12 Maldwyn 2 0 0 2 13 Cwmbran 1 3 2 6 14 Neath 1 3 3 7
Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Long Jump 1 1 2 4 400m 2 0 0 2 1500m 1 1 0 2 High Jump 1 0 0 1 Javelin 2 0 2 Shot 1 1 2 5000m 1 0 1 Discus 1 1 400m Hurdles 1 1 4x100m 1 1
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