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Combined Events

Combined Events

The main Track & Field season concluded with the English Schools Combined Events Championship at Stoke. A huge event with 6 age / sex groups, and over 200 athletes doing combined events – pentathlon, heptathlon, decathlon. The weather marred the great event, with a long and heavy thunderstorm causing some events to be abandoned, and much of the weekend rainy. The county had 14 athletes qualified, who really stuck in to overcome the conditions and battle for their result.

Isaac Henson tore hamstring in his second event and had to withdraw, in this his final event as a schools athlete after many National Schools Championships. Senior Girls won team. Frances Hogg 2nd in the senior heptathlon (also her final schools event), and Esme Pounder 6th both superb all round performances. Emma Sedgwick (Stokesley) 8th. Scarlett Smith St Aidans, 18th, of 25.

In the Junior Girls pentathlon, North Yorkshire won the Inter County team event headed by a great 2nd place for Carys Francis, only 9 points (in 3200) behind the winner, with Holly Nash 15th, Juliette Macquin-Jones 19th, Sophia Horsfall-Samb 25th of about 40. Carys has qualified for the England team for an indoor international in November; an outstanding achievement.

The English Schools Combined Events has been going 36 years, and Frances and Carys are now the highest placed North Yorkshire athletes ever; in 36 years North Yorkshire has won 3 team titles. This year we won 2 more. Holly’s 15th in the Junior Girls is a specially recognised result – the position of Jessica Ennis in this event at this age. Holly did really well.

In the Inter Girls heptathlon, Lucy Gilbertson finished a very good 12th, doing particularly well in the opening hurdles, 8th in what is a very high standard event in girls combined events, and a good final event the 800m to win her heat and move from 20th up to 12th.

Junior Boys. Elliott Moon finished a valiant 30th, suffering from a heavy cold and hit by the cancellation of the 800m through the weather which would have been a very profitable event for him (pb is 2.14). Peter Middlemass St Aidan’s 31st, Fabian Smith Ashville 39th, Ewan McMillan Read 40th of 40.

Well done to all the NYSAA athletes who took part.