National Junior League Portsmouth Sunday 27th May

At one of the wettest athletics meetings  The Basingstoke / Winchester Andover Team put up a creditable performance to finish 4th last Sunday.
Conditions were not contusive to fast times or any really good performance. The competition provided a useful opportunity to try out new race tactics and a time to try some new techniques.
A few U 17 athletes were competing at the South of England championships so were unavailable for this meeting.
Performances were as follows:
Women
200m Ruth McKellar 4th 28.4
400m A Georgina Neame 4th 62.5
B 1st Ruth McKellar 67.3
N/S Katie Smith 69.9
800m Ist Sophie Smith (pb) 2.31.6
B 1st Sophie Dundovic 2.38.2
LJ4th Anna Newton 4.85m
HJ 1st Anna Newton 1.54m She landed in a puddle of water every time ending up a very wet athlete
TJ 3rd Kirsty Piper8.78
Shot 6th Kirsty Piper 6.14m
Discus5th Kirsty Piper16.65m
Javelin 2nd Anna Newton24.58m
4x100m Relay Frankie, Ruth Anna,  Georgina 3rd 54.3
4x 400m relay Ruth, Katie Sophie Smith ,Georgina. 1st 3.29.9
The 100mHurdles were cancelled due to the poor conditions so Frankie had bad luck travelling all the way from Andover to find her event cancelled.

Men
100m100m Joe Flitcroft4th 12.7
200mA James Foulkes 2nd23.9
B 1st Duncan Stevenson 24.1
400m 5th Joe Flitcroft 57.9 . This was his first outing over this distance
800mA Jack Graham 5th2.04.7
B Stephen Reid 2.19.0
1500m Alex Young 4.52.7 4th
Steeple Chase 2000mA&B4th  Jack Bolton Tom Fright 9.40.5 providing some amusement for us all, and they found the event more difficult than they thought!
High Jump Sam Sleap 1.70m
Shot A.Jack Bolton 10.`14 3rd
B Tom Fright 8.81 1st
Discus3rd Tom Firight 25.45
B 1st Jack Boltohn23.77
Javelin  A Jack Bolton 40.54  2nd
B Tom Fright 29.11 3rd
4x100m Relay managed to get the baton around for the first time this year 4th48.9

The Hurdles and Poole Vault high scoring events for us were cancelled due to the conditions as it was deemed too dangerous for the athletes.

Report by Jackie Tobin