GB&NI Juniors Break Records at Mannheim Gala

The GB & NI juniors put on a spectacular display at the U20 Mannheim Gala in Germany over the weekend.

A new meeting record for Charlotte Henrich (coach: Nigel Stickings, club: Invicta East Kent) in the 400m, clocking 52.56 to take the top spot. The second meeting record of the event came from the men’s 4x100m relay team of Ethan Franklin (Gladys Bird, Woodford Green Essex Ladies), Teddy Wilson (Marvin Rowe, Shaftesbury Barnet), Dean Patterson (Dave Watson, Glasgow Jaguars) and Dylan Williams (TJ Ossai, BFT Track Academy) with a time of 39.34.

Nell Desir (Lisa Waddon, Cardiff Archers), Lucy Tallon (Nigel Stickings, Tonbridge), Kaya Slater (Roddy Slater, Reading AC) and Mabel Akande (Denise Timmins, Lincoln Wellington) made up a powerful women’s 4x100m squad who romped home to win with a season’s best time of 44.29.

The women’s 4x400m squad of Casey Musgrave (Mark Fowler, City of Sheffield), Eleanor McIntosh (Darrell Maynard, Bristol & West), Arabella Wilson (Andrew Fisher, Thames Valley) and Stephani Okoro (Laura Turner-Alleyne, Havering) also won their race in a season’s best time of 3:35.85.

In the men’s 400m hurdles, it was a GB&NI one-two, Oliver Parker (James Wright, Rugby & Northampton) claiming the top spot with a time of 50.83 and Rayhan Mourtada (John Blackie, Blackheath & Bromley) in second place, 51.29 with a new personal best.

Noah Hanson (Tony Jarrett, Newham & Essex Beagles) was second in the 110m hurdles, clocking 13.33, which achieved the European U20 standard and placed him at the top of the U20 European ranking list. Lucy Tallon the 200m with a new personal best of 23.55, which is the European U20 standard.

Arabella Wilson ran a new personal best to claim the top spot in the women’s 400m hurdles with a time of 57.98, and Stephani Okoro came in second with a season-best time of 58.26.

Hammer thrower Jabez Berry (Steve Pearson, Halesowen) threw a new personal best of 74.75m, edging ever so closer to being second in Europe at the U20 level.

Teddy Wilson ran a season’s best time of 10.28 in the men’s 100m, whilst in the women’s race, Kaya Slater clocked 11.45 in her heat to set the fastest time by any of the GB&NI women’s sprinters at the Gala.

In the men’s 200m, Ethan Franklin took the bronze medal, running a time of 20.90, closely followed by Dean Patterson in fourth, running a new personal best of 20.94. Fabian Powell (James Wright, Rugby & Northampton) ran 21.01 to take the fifth spot.

The complete list of results from the Mannheim Gala.

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