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Eight Stevenage and North Herts Athletes were in action at a National Level competition over the weekend. Running for Hertfordshire at the CAU Inter County Match at Prestwood Hall on Saturday U17 Athletes Thomas Cropley and William Galliford finished in 75th and 118th positions helping the Hertfordshire team to 16th place. Abigail Manson finished in 121st in the U17 Girls Team which Finish 14th. Aubrey Murray ran in the U15 Boys Team finishing in 196th place and U13 Girl Hazel Spitzer finished in 231st place with the teams finishing in 29th and 20th respectively.
In action at the England Athletics U17/15 Combined Events Championships in Sheffield. Jamie Timms finished in 10th position with PBs in five of the seven events and a PB point score of 3839. Bobby Pitman finished in 17th place with PBs in 2 events.
Rebecca Scott was also in action in Sheffield at the England Athletics Para Championships. Competing as a senior she ran the 60m in 8.76 and came second in the LJ, her best jump being 4m72.
Full results on the website.

Seven SNHAC athletes took part in the Eastern Champs at Lee Valley over the weekend.
Dropping down to the 200m for some speed training, Jess Astill came third in the U20 200m running 25.97 in the heat and 25.38 in the final. U20 Jamie Joseph reached the final of his 200m with a heat time of 23.73 but withdrew from the final due to illness. U20 Annabel Howells was fifth in the 400m in a time of 59.69 and Harrison Lund was joint fourth in the U17 HJ clearing 1m53. Also competing were Georgia Sutcliffe 300m, Edythe Oughton 60H, LJ and SP – PBs in the LJ and SP and Rachel Berry in the HJ.
Competing in Wales at Vault Cardiff were seniors Sam Meyler and Shannon Rapacchi. Sam cleared 4m13 and Shannon 3m33. Shannon recently snapped her competition pole so is getting used to different size poles while a replacement is acquired.

Thanks to Michael Joseph for the pictures.

Rebecca Scott T47 won her category of the Para 60m at the UK Indoor Championships in Birmingham over the weekend in a time of 8.84 PB. She then got to run there again this weekend in the Indoor Tour FInals.

Competing for the Great Britain U20 team today in Madrid, Jess Astill was part of the Hunter Relay team that finished the match. Up against teams from Spain, Portugal, France, Czech Republic and Ireland, going into the last event Great Britain were leading with the Czech team in second. A resounding victory in the relay saw Great Britain finish first with the Czech team second and Spain third.

Currently running at North Herts Museum in Hitchin is an exhibition celebrating Disability Sports and sporting personalities from North Herts. A large section of the exhibition is given over to Athletics. There are wall displays featuring Jamie Burton, Marie Verdeille and Rebecca Scott. Cabinets feature photographs and information about past development events at the track. The exhibition runs until the 26th March and is well worth a visit.