Flames forced to settle for fifth spot

ATHLETICS: Sheffield Flames finished fifth in the second match of the City Indoor Challenge at Cardiff on Saturday. North London won, as they did in the first match in Sheffield and they took the title comfortably with the Sheffield squad in second place overall.
By The Newsroom
Published 28th Feb 2011, 10:17 BST

There was an easy win for Sheffield in the women’s 60m where Bernice Wilson, warming up for the European Indoor Championships, scored in 7.4 secsand Louise Bloor made it a sprint double for Sheffield winning the 200m comfortably in 24.65.

There was another Sheffield win in the women’s 800m when Laura Kirk triumphed in the closest finish of the day. Making her bid on the last lap, Kirk, who runs for Skyrac, held on for victory in 2:10.21

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Sheffield were unlucky when three potential winners failed to score. Chris Craig, who won the 200m in the first match, was disqualified for false starting, Mukhtar Mohammed, hot favourite for the 800m, was disqualified for barging, and pole vault star Luke Cutts failed to record a height. Struggling with a back injury, Cutts came in at 5.22m but had three failures.

There were second places for Sheffield athletes Amy Hill in the shot (14.65m), Anthony Whiteman in the 1500 (3:50.00), Emma Lyons in the pole vault (4.21m), Matt Roberts in the high jump (2.15m) and Liam Ramsay in the combined events.

There was a superb performance from Adam Hague (The Dearne ALC) in the under 15 pole vault at the English Junior Indoor Championships held at Birmingham at the weekend.

After breaking the championship record with 3.92, Hague went on to break a 17-year-old UK record for his age group by clearing 4.06 at his first attempt.

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