SoE Indoor Champs - Young Athletes
South of England Indoor Championships – Medals & Championship Records
The South of England Indoor U13/15/17 Championships took place over the weekend of 10–11 January at Lee Valley, attracting strong fields as athletes sought early‑season form, National Indoor qualification (Sheffield, 7–8 Feb), and valuable competitive experience ahead of the County Championships (Lee Valley, 28th Feb – 1st March).
Age Group Changes – April 2026
This year’s indoor season fell during an unusual transition period ahead of England Athletics’ move from U13/15/17 age groups to U14/U16/U18 in April. As a result, some athletes would move up in age group for this indoor season, before returning to their new categories for the outdoor season in April. This led to some in technical events deciding to miss the indoors, in preference of continuing to practise specifications applicable to them in April.
Race Reports
Across the two days, more than 30 Woodford athletes competed at Lee Valley in sprints, hurdles, jumps, middle-distance and throws, producing some excellent results, that included 9 championship medals and one championship record.
Gold Medals - South of England Champions
Isabella Moulton (photo below, U17W) won the 60m Hurdles with a commanding display improving through every round (Heat: 8.73s / Semi‑final: 8.68s) before producing a stunning championship‑record performance in the final of 8.56 (PB) to win Gold.
Joy Larinde (U17W) won the 200m final with a superb performance piping Okoma (Herne Hill) to the line to win gold in 25.10s. Joy showed great composure and strength of recovery having produced a PB run in a tight semi-final of 25.09s.
Silver Medals
Multi eventer Daisy Whelan (U13G) produced a breakthrough throw of 8m 05cm (PB) to take silver in shot put behind Lumpkin (Aldershot) who threw a championship record distance of 10m 16cm for gold.
Bronze Medals
Nathaniel Sandy (U15B) won a sprint double bronze in 60m & 200m. It was a superb championship for Nathaniel, who set PBs in every round across both sprints. In 60m Nathaniel ran 7.44s in his heat and followed it up with 7.41s in the semi-finals and 7.37s (PB) in the final to take bronze. In the 200m he ran 24.81s in his heat. 24.38s in the semifinal and improved to 24.19s (PB) in the final.
Jax Connor (U13B) won 800m bronze with a season’s best time of 2min 31s. This was a great achievement from Jax in his first indoor season, and good experience for him learning to manage heats and finals.
Blake Edwards (U15B) was also in sparkling form matching his indoor pb of 1m 70cm to take bronze. Blake was one of the athletes who moved up in age group from U13 to U15 for this event. He moves back down to U14 in April.
Emma Frisby (U15G) – produced a superb jumping double, with bronze both the long jump and high jump. Emma jumped 4m 81cm to qualify for the long jump final. She then produced a medal winning jump of 5m 16cm in the final. Emma barely had time to recover for her high jump but was still able to produce a jump of 1m 50cm which on count back won her a terrific bronze medal. Ivey (WSEH) won gold clearing 1m 55cm.
PB & SB Performances
The following athletes all achieved season’s bests or personal bests, many progressing through multiple rounds and finals.
U13 Boys
Dimeji Olawoye continued his strong winter form in the 60m. He ran 8.42s (PB) in the heats, improving to 8.40s (SB) in the semi‑final and finished 4th in the final with 8.44s. Alfie Perkins enjoyed a productive championship double, running 9.05s (PB) in the 60m heats before returning for the 800m where he recorded a fine 2:40.04 (PB).
U13 Girls
Phoebe Quorn produced a confident run in her debut 60m, clocking 9.06s (PB). Rosie Anderson, our seasoned junior hurdler also impressed over 60m with running 9.32s (PB) in her heat.
U15 Boys
Elisha Onilogbo set two new bests, running 7.70s in 60m and 25.41s in his 200m heat. Kai Augustolowered his 60m best to 8.22s (PB), while Rayan Amilhasan made his indoor debut running an excellent 8.03s (PB). Ryan will move back down to U14 in April.
U15 Girls
Ammarah Marshalleck made her Woodford debut and produced two PBs in the 60m hurdles, running 9.98s in the heats and improving to 9.91s in the semi‑final. Kehanique Lowe also ran a PB in 60m hurdles of 10.41s. Ammarah and Kehanique move back down to U14 age group in April.
U17 Men
Tyler Reynolds enjoyed an outstanding championship, running 7.30s (PB) in the 60m heats, 7.19s (PB) in the semi‑final, and a superb 7.15s (PB) for 5th in the final. He also placed 4th in the long jump with 6.02m.
Toby Falola produced a consistent 200m series, running 22.87s in the heats, 22.93s in the semi‑final and 23.04s for 4th in the final. Lucas Freedman progressed well through the 800m rounds, running 2:02.41 in the heats and 2:09.87 (SB) in the final where he was 5th with gold won by Whorton 9Hercules Wimbledon) in 1min 58s.
Laurent Rio Modeste‑Lesforis set two personal bests with 7.54s in 60m and 24.27s in the 200m. Lawrence Foster also impressed, running 7.27s (SB) in his 60m semi‑final and 23.83s (SB) in the 200m. There were PBs for Zach Emare Ikharebore (7.53s in 60m), Rahul Solanki (9.15s in the 60m hurdles and Stephen Ng who cleared 3m 50cm in pole vault final.
U17 Women
Joy Larinde, already crowned 200m champion, also produced a superb 60m series, running 7.89s (PB) in the heats, 7.83s (SB) in the semi‑final and 7.73s (PB) for 4th in a high‑quality final.
Habiba Tijani ran well in 60m with 8.03s (SB) in the heats and 7.95s (SB) in the semi‑final just missing out on the finals. Chanae Andrews delivered a strong sprint double, running 8.56s in the 60m and 28.65s in the 200m.
In the pole vault, Talya Aladekomo cleared a new best of 2.60m, and Emily Stockill vaulted 2.70m for her personal best.
Summary
This was an excellent start to the indoor season for many of the athletes, some now move onto Nationals (Sheffield, 7th and 8th Feb) and many eye the Essex & Eastern County Indoors (Lee Valley 28th Feb – 1stMarch).