Alnwick athlete triumphs in English Schools Championships
AFTER an indifferent start, Northumberland athletes had a very successful time on the second and last day of the English Schools Track and Field Championships at Gateshead International Stadium - taking four gold, two silver and one bronze medal.
Laura Weightman from Duchess's High School in Alnwick started the run, with an excellent tactical victory in the senior girls' 1,500m, proving too strong for her rivals in the final 80m.
Niall Flannery (Royal Grammar) - like Weightman the intermediate champion in 2007 - took the senior boys' 400m hurdles title.
Tim Parkin (Ponteland High School) was the next to take gold, clearing a personal best height of 4.40m in the Intermediate boys' pole vault before Lauren Dewdney (Central High) improved on her bronze medal in 2007, by winning the senior girls' 100m hurdles title. Ross Murray (St Thomas More, North Shields) took second place in the senior 1,500m, a position matched by Stacey Smith (Prudhoe High School) in the senior girls' 800m.
Rebecca Liddell (Central High) took bronze in the junior girls' 80m hurdles while Cleveland gained one gold medal, when Kayleigh Mills from Hartlepool, was successful in the intermediate girls' hammer.
Laura Park of Cumbria took her first track title, when winning the intermediate girls' 3,000m.
Durham's best performance came in the 4x100m relay, with the senior girls' team of Vicky Holmes, Amy Fleming, Samantha Coleby and Nicola Pearson, finishing fourth.
Pictured: Laura Weightman takes the lead in the home straight of the senior girls' 1500m
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