UNDER-15 BOYS
UNDISPUTED star of the show was Highgate’s Dominic Ogbechie, who completed an unprecedented championship best double, winning the long jump in 6.84m (+2.1) and the high jump in 1.96m. Statisticians, get checking: when has that ever been done before?
“My speed showed me I was close. Now I need to work on my launch,” he said after his long jump.
Dominic Ogbechie: won both the long jump and the high jump in style
PICTURES: GARY MITCHELL
A day later he was talking about how there’s more in the tank for the high jump and, given he’s got his eye on this month’s English Schools Combined Events Championships in Exeter, he may just also be talking about a little more to come in the 200m and a few other events!
Not to be outdone in the record-breaking department, Ben Pattison, Britain’s No.1 in the 300m before the championships, clocked a championships best 35.41, remarkable speed for someone calling himself an 800m runner just a month earlier.
“I thought my endurance had run out so I thought I should run this event,” he said.
Bedford always seems to play host to some incredible 100m running and so it proved once again as Belgrave’s Kyle Reynolds-Warmington got an amazing set of finals under way with a 10.98 clocking, easily the best in the country for this year.
Understandably pleased with cracking the 11-second barrier, he didn’t reveal if he was also pleased to eclipse his coach Andrea Lynch’s best of 11.16!
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