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Indoor Round-Up March 15th

WGwEL athletes in indoor action over the past week were led by Joice Maduaka, competing for GB&NI at the World Indoor Championships in Doha. Joice progressed to the semi-final where she placed 5th in a time of 7.35 secs. Other Woodford athletes were in action at a number of fixtures.

At the British Universities Championships at Sheffield, there were two silver medals; over 60m for Elaine O'Neil with 7.47 secs and in the long jump with 5.89m for Kim Murray, where HCA member, heptathlete Gemma Weetman took gold with 6.02m. In the men's 800m, junior Omar Mansour placed 5th in the final with 1m55.57 secs, after recording 1m54.13 secs to qualify. In the 3000m heats Gavin Lewis recorded 8m56.81 secs, whilst in the 400m heats James Meadows recorded 52.61 secs.

Competing at the Southern Inter-Counties meeting at Lee Valley Chris Linque excelled as he won the Shot with a significant new personal best of 13.97m. There was also a victory for Sophie Fuhr in the U/17 400m with 60.79 secs, whilst Clare Leckie was 3rd in the senior event with 61.05 secs. In the men's 400m, U/20, Paul Scanlan placed 5th with 50.66 secs, ahead of Ben Phillips who recorded 52.24 secs in 6th. In the men's U/17 events, Hasif Bedford was 5th over 200m with 24.08 secs, and James Palmer was 4th in the shot with 10.38m.

In the US, Felicity Milton was in fine form over 5000m as she recorded 16m01.90 secs, in placing 8th in the NCAA Championships whilst representing Oklahoma University at Fayetteville.

Other performances of note over the previous week included Dan Davis in action over both 60m and 60mH at Windsor recording times of 7.05 secs, 7.04 secs and 8.05 sec s and 8.04 secs respectively. At the Middlesex Indoor Championships at Lee Valley, Chris Symonds won over 1500m with 4m 17.34 secs whilst Jason Greenidge recorded 7.07 secs in the 60m Semi-final. At the London University Championships at the same venue, Adrian Stamp recorded a hand timed 7.0 secs to win the 60m, whilst Pavidra Sivahahdarajah placed 3rd in the women's event with 8.2 secs.