Ewan adds to his medal collection in 1500m Stoke test
THERE were three medals for Burton AC teenagers at the Mason’s Trophy meeting in Stoke, with Ewan Withnall adding another impressive 1500m victory to his growing collection.
Twenty Burton athletes took part in a meeting designed to give the junior and intermediate age groups a chance to hit qualifying standards for the English Schools Championships.
Ten counties were represented at Stoke and the Burton athletes had come through qualifying events with either Derbyshire or Staffordshire schools championships to be there.
Withnall controlled his 1500m race from the start and strode away to win in four minutes 15.02 seconds.
Poppy Howard grabbed a silver medal when she threw a big personal best of 29.22m in the hammer.
And George Kugelmann followed up with silver in the discus with a throw of 36.54m.
Joel Cantrill ran in a 400m mixed relay Derbyshire team which came second.
There was also a win for Tamworth athlete Isla Rogers, with 39.13m in the javelin – she has recently been training in Burton with club chairman Jaime Walker’s throws group.
While there were no other medallists, Jessica Golder (12.95m, 75m hurdles) and Henry Hemmings (2.05.56, 800m) recorded PBS.
IN THE Derbyshire schools championships, there were wins in the senior category for Kaiden Ramsay (6.52m, long jump) and Isabelle Fellows (36.23m, javelin).
Nathan Mugoti jumped exactly 6m to win the intermediate long jump, while Ewan Withnall took a predictable win in the junior 1500m.
Other wins in the junior age group went to Isabelle Gould (41.16m, hammer), Grace Long (4.50m, long jump) and Poppy Howard (26.22m, hammer),
In the Staffordshire schools championships, Freya Manton doubled up with a 12.9-second win in the 100m and another win at 200m (27.1) in the junior age group, in which Burton’s other winner was Daniel Kolodziej (5.55m, long jump).
In the intermediate category,
George Kugelmann won twice, throwing the shot 11.0m and the discus 39.70m, while Oliver Scattergood won the javelin with 38.54m.
Blayn Ganley won the 100m in 10.9 seconds, Sammy Mccafferty, returning from injury, won the 400m in 55.3 seconds and
Kamil Kolodziej won the 1500m comfortably in 4.35.8.
Joe Ward added a triple jump win with 13.42m, Amelie Holt won the high jump with 1.45m and Saffron Bowley the 1500m in 5.17.7.
BURTON Athletic Club members won several team prizes in the Washlands relays, with a number of young athletes competing strongly against adult runners.
Ewan Withnall was supposed to be taking it easy with his Mason’s Trophy appearance due the next day but his competitive instincts kicked in and he won the individual under-17 prize – although entered as an under-15 – with a run of 9.49 over a 1.9-mile lap, which was also the third-fastest leg of the day.
The under-17 team were also winners,
through Withnall, Lincoln Shaw, Aleksander Tutt and Oliver James and were the eighth-fastest team overall among all the adults.
Similarly, Maisie Trueman ran the third-fastest leg, 11.20, among the women, as she went first for the Burton team, who came second overall with further legs from Isobel Harmon and Charlotte Nettleton.
The under-17 girls’ team prize went to Burton’s Martha Ashton, Amelia Nettleton and Sian Gower and the under-17 mixed team prize to Jacob Harmon, Daniel Perkins, Freddie Hutchinson and, running for a second time, Isobel Harmon.
SEVERAL Burton athletes went to the British Milers Club races hosted by Charnwood AC at Loughborough, with Lewis Boyce closing in on the English Schools championship entry standard with a big PB of 2.08.37 in the 800m.
Sammy Mccafferty was a fraction slower in 2.08.63, running his first 800m after injury. Saffron Bowley was close to her season’s best in the 1500m with 5.02.91.