Wood flies to personal best in long jump

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CHELTENHAM Harriers athletes are slowly returning to competition in good numbers, with some excellent performances.

A late summer season on the track and field has seen Alfie Wood excel with a big long jump personal best at Charnwood, winning the competition with a jump of 6.63m, which ranks him seventh Under-17 in the UK for 2020.

Ruth and Mel Bird travelled to Bournemouth and competed in the shot put, discus and hammer.

They both threw PBS in the shot put with Ruth’s throw ranking her 3rd all-time on the Vet 55 rankings, with strong performances across all three events.

Other throwers competing included Andrew Walker who finished second in the under 20 discus at Yeovil with a throw of 38.40 and Oliver Risborough achieving a PB in the javelin throwing 33.26.

Under-15 Billy Buxton also competed in Yeovil and achieved a PB of 37.13, but the following day he took things up a level throwing an age group Harriers club record of 38.28 to mark a good weekend’s work.

Loughborough University student George Watson, ran a solid 8.35 3k at Lea Valley in London on his return to racing.

At the Castle Coombe motor racing circuit over a 5k road course, Caroline Cotterell motored to victory and was first F50 in 21:05 and Nick Holliday was first M60 in 18:57.

Ellis Woolley has raced twice since lockdown, with the under-13 running 2.37 for 800m in Nuneaton, then stepping up to run a 5k PB at the Bath two tunnels race in 21.19.