Super sprinter Sean smashes two club records in Bedford meeting

Peterborough & Nene Valley wrapped up their National Athletics League campaign at Bedford on Saturday with a second place finish and three new club records.

Sprinter Sean Garmory collected two of the club records as he excelled in the 200m and 400m. Garmory (26) won the 200m with a new personal best (PB) of 22.53 and finished second in the 400m in a time of 50:48. Dave Brown was runner up in the B 400m.

His time of 51.46 cemented his place as second quickest over 40 400m runner in the national rankings.

The third club record was attained by the all conquering Andrea Jenkins, who achieved a distance of 45.46m in the hammer. Jenkins is ranked as the nation’s number one over 45 hammer thrower, and is ranked fifth in the discus, which she won at Bedford with a 33.69m throw.

Becki Hall won the B discus with a distance of 31.22m.

Elizabeth Moorhouse threw 11.17m when finishing runner up in the B shot.

James Dods and Simon Achurch shared the men’s throwing duties with three wins and four second places between them. Dods threw 14.50m to win the shot, while Achurch won the B shot and discus with distances of 11.09 and 33.29m.

Abraham Jones ran well, winning the B 100m in 11.71 and finishing second in the B 200m with 24.33.

Alex Hampson took second place with a 1:55.87 800m clocking and Luke Brown ran 4:21.92 for runners up spot in the 1,500m. Sean Reidy was runner up in the 400m hurdles in a time of 57.84 while Alastair Phelan clocked 62.95 when winning the B race.

Tomi Ogunyoye jumped 6.38m to take second place in the long jump.

Paige Roadley won the B 800m on her club debut in a time of 2:29.68. Helena Darragh clocked 2:25.38 to finish second in the A race.

Nichola Gibson clocked 62.99, her fastest time in four years, for second place in the 400m B race.

Jessica Dixon Walker finished second in the 100m hurdles with a time of 16.23, and on a day of 18 second places for the club’s athletes Tayla Benson took two of them, with a 1.53m high jump and a B long jump distance of 4.63m.

Grace Tidman was B high jump runner up with a leap of 1.43m.

Result: 1 Chelmsford AC 318, PANVAC 257, 3 Bedford & County AC 256, 4 Herts Phoenix AC 171, 5 Southend AC 72

Four Peterborough & Nene Valley AC youngsters were in action at Loughborough in the Charnwood AC Open Meeting.

Sienna Slater won her 75m Hurdles race in 12.25 and followed it up with a 13.33 100m.

Jack Wheatley won the 80m Hurdles in 12.49 while Alexa Boole clocked 13.80 in the 100m and 46.60 over 300m.

Sean Garmory (left) with Alex Hampson.