Current and former Loughborough College students competing for Great Britain and Northern Ireland joined a host of personal and season’s best performances in the Paula Radcliffe Stadium this weekend.
Amongst six College names selected for the junior team to compete at Sunday’s Loughborough International Athletics Match was IAAF World Youth silver medallist and current College AASE Sports student Ojie Edoburun who took third in the men’s 100m with a time of 10.49/+0.3 m/s.
The season’s first major track and field meeting saw a win for fellow Loughborough College student Thomas Somers, who achieved a personal best in the 200m in the World Youth Championships in Donetsk and matched his time to win the same event on Sunday when he stopped the clock at 20.84/0.6m/s.
The time was comfortably inside standard required for this year’s IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July.
In the match hurdles races, former AASE student Yasmin Miller took an impressive second place with a 13.48/+0.7m/s clocking, while in the men's javelin Freddie Curtis, who studied on the College’s BTEC and AASE programmes, threw 69.02m for fifth in the men's javelin.
James Wilkinson, a member of the Loughborough College Elite Sport team, won the men’s 1500m and in the women’s pole vault, Sally Scott and Courtney Macguire finished 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Pictured, Yasmin Miller in action at the Girls’ 100m hurdles IAAF World Youth Championships.