The Lancashire Track and Field Championships produced gold and championship bests for Chorley AC athletes!
In the High Jump Under 17's woman Jodie Farnworth produced a gold star jump to take first and achieve 1.55 metres. Not to be outdone the Senior ladies produced immaculate performances with Eloise Manger throwing a magnificent 40.13 metres to take top spot in the Javelin. Performance of the weekend has to be Kelly Hilton's 12.27 metres in the Triple Jump - not only gold but a championship best performance. Kelly also achieved first in 100mtr hurdles and 2nd in Long Jump clocking 15.4 secs and 5.43 metres respectively.
In the Under 15 Boys Ryan Sciacca took gold in one of the "blue ribbon" events, 800m in 2mins 14 secs, whilst Ben Whipp also produced a gold star performance to come 1st in the Discus with a throw of 25.21m
Club Chairman, John Payn praised all the athletes and said" All our athletes compete at the highest level, they enjoyed what they are doing and we as a club are highly delighted with all their achievements."
Result of other events:
U13 Boys
1500m 4th Fergus Tallon 5 mins 11 secs
U13 Girls
1500m 13th Ruth Whipp 6 mins 19 secs
Javelin 3rd Ruth Whipp 14.51 metres
U15 Boys
100m 5th Ben Ramsay 12.80 secs
1500m 3rd Ryan Sciacca 4 mins 41 secs
9th Ben Ramsay 5 mins 3 secs
Shot 3rd Ben Whipp 8.56 metres
Javelin 2nd Ben Whipp 37.85 metres
U15 Girls
800m 6th Rhiann Beaumont 2mins 49 secs
Long Jump 5th Rhiann Beaumont 4.36 metres
Javelin 2nd Rhiann Beaumont 25.83 metres
Shot 3rd Rhiann Beaumont 8.54 metres
U17 Men
100m 5th Ben Knight 12.1 secs
1500m 8th Luke Betts 4 mins 36 secs
800m 7th Luke Betts 2 mins 8 secs
Junior Men
100m 4th Michael Hough 11.5 secs
200m 4th Michael Hough 23.9 secs
Senior Men
100m 7th Graham Ballard 12.7 secs
200m 7th Graham Ballard 26.4 secs
Results