Athletes bathed in sunshine –

The sun was shining when the first day of the Hampshire Athletics Championships was held at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth.

But as these Paul Smith pictures on the opposite page illustrate, it was a very different tale on the second day!

Overall, the annual Championships were a big success story for City of Portsmouth AC with 61 medals in total.

Charlotte Pabari and Logan Cookson both scooped two golds. Pabari, competing in the under-13 girls category, won the javelin (41.58m) and shot (10.23m) events. And Cookson, competing in the under-15 boys section, triumphed in the triple jump (10.34m) and long jump (5.09m). In the second of those events, he finished 17cm ahead of Josh Taylor (Havant).

Other City of Portsmouth gold medallists:

Senior men - 400m: Harrison Pocock; 1500m: Callum Crook; 5000m: Paul Cardy; Triple jump: Matthew Galbraith; U20 men - 100m: Alfie Jurd; 1500m: Cameron Walker-Powell; Pole vault: Noah Stocker; Long jump: Elliott Evans; Shot: Sam Kershaw; Javelin: Callum Taylor. U20 women - 100m: Lily Baggott; 200m: Sadie Blake; 800m: Olivia East.

U17M - 400m hurdles: Zac Williams. U17W - 1500m stp: Hattie Bond. U15B - Discus: Jack Burgess. U15G - Triple jump: Ella Hutton.

Rebecca Lord (Stubbington, left) and Sarah Barbary

Harrison Pocock, left, in the senior men's 200m

Callum Taylor won the under-20 men’s javelin

Paul Cardy, left, won the senior men 5000m

Elliot Evans in the under-20 men’s long jump

Ella Hutton in the under-15 girls triple jump

Gulliver Bailey in the under-13 boys 800m

Trinity Gaisford in the high jump

Havant’s Alex Fitzpatrick won the senior men’s hammer

A familiar sight on day two of the Championships

Sadie Blake wins the under-20 women’s 200m

Logan Cookson won the U15 boys triple jump

Jessica Stanbrook, left, and Mollie Roberts

Florence East in the under-15 girls 800m

Abigaul Cupid in the under-13 girls 200m

George Rogers in the senior men’s shot

Riley Hooker in the under-13 boys shot