Spartans Athletes Showcase Talent at Championships

The Somerset Spartan Athletes finally had their chance to display the hard work they have been completing throughout the Covid-19 period up at the Queensland All Schools Championships at the Queensland State Athletics Centre in Brisbane over the past two weekends. Spread out over two consecutive weekends our Spartan Athletes produced some outstanding results.

A special mention to our two Gold Medallists – Felix Jackson-King (Triple Jump) and Britney Ingr (Long Jump).

Full team results as follows:

Boys

U18

Felix Jackson-King – Triple Jump 1st 14.38m (0.0m) PB; Long Jump 2nd 7.36m (0.0m) PB (Both National Q)

Prosper Nwoko – 100m 3rd 10.74sec (+2.9m); 200m 2nd 21.95sec (+2.5m) (Both National Q)

U17 

Kye Reynoldson – 100m 13th 11.64sec (+1.0m); 200m 13th 23.57sec (+2.7m) PB

James Thompson – 100m 18th 12.07sec (+2.0m) PB; Long Jump 10th 5.16m

Brayden Miles – 400m Hurdles 5th 61.37sec PB (National Q); 400m 10th 53.50sec PB

U16

Phoenix Kyaw – Long Jump 11th 5.73m PB; 400m 17th 57.08sec PB

U15

Rishi Veeramachaneni – 100m 24th 12.86sec (+2.7m); 200m 19th 26.21sec (+0.6m)

Luke Shirley – Javelin 5th 36.51m PB

Mathew Goldie – High Jump 9th 1.50m

U14

Aidan Mackie – 90m Hurdles 6th 15.00sec (+1.3m) PB (National Q)

Overall

1 x Gold | 2 x Silver | 1 x Bronze medals

10 x Personal Bests

10 x Top 10 finishes

GIRLS

U18 

Miku Adachi – 800m 5th 2.22min PB; 1500m 6th 5.01min PB

Diaz Henry – 100m (DQ – False start – very unlucky!)

U17 

Starr Scott – 800m 4th 2.17min; 1500m 3rd 4.48min (800m National Q)

Jessica Velloza – 100m Hurdles 4th 15.87sec PB (National Q)

Caitlin Anderson – High Jump 6th 1.50m

U16

Britney Ingr – Long Jump 1st 5.79m; 100m 2nd 11.83sec; 200m 2nd 24.39sec (ALL National Q)

Sophie Clements – 100m 17th 13.73; Long Jump 10th 4.72m

U14

Ava Stephens - 80m Hurdles 8th 14.43sec PB

Note: Stephanie Sprague to compete in Pole Vault 7 November for Queensland Championships.

Overall1 x Gold | 2 x Silver | 1 x Bronze1 Top 104 x PBs

Congratulations to all our amazing athletes who participated! Normally seven of these athletes who qualified would then go on to compete at the Australian All Schools, however with Covid-19 this has unfortunately been cancelled.

On a positive note, the Summer Athletics season is now in full swing and we have the largest number of registered athletes ready to compete throughout the season ever.

Our focus now is on Queensland State Relay and Multi Event Championships in November and December. These will be followed by the Queensland State Championships in February and hopefully the Australian Championships in March where we should see a record number of Somerset Athletes performing.

If you are interested in competing in these upcoming events over Summer and are aged 12 years plus, please contact me, Mark Ladbrook for more information.