Age no barrier to success for wonderful Wrexham athletes
The Cheshire track and field grand prix was held at Macclesfield and the event welcomed six Wrexham AAC members.
In the spotlight was Robin Frost, who achieved a new personal best and club record of 20.14m to win the M80 javelin. He also triumphed in the hammer with 15.81 metres.
In the M75 section, Paul Brooks won the javelin with a personal best of 12.43 metres and he launched the hammer 15.30 metres for second place.
Annabelle Jones (29.38m) and Isabelle Bennett (24.65m) were second and third respectively in the U17 women's javelin, while Spencer Jones (29.77m) took first place in the U13 boys' javelin. A personal best of 1.25m also saw him fourth in the high jump. Competing in the U11 boys' class was Ellis Jones, in the 75m (12.97), 600m (2-22.04), long jump (2.55m) and javelin (14.74m).
Thomas Walley produced at effort of 5.11m to claim pole vault victory at Vault Manchester.
Top displays also came in the Trafford AC open. Tomasi Fidow produced a personal best of 10.86m to win the U15 boys' shot put and he was second in the discus (22.54m).
Tegan Graham supplied a personal best of 23.12m to triumph in the U13 girls' javelin and there was a season's best of 52.04 from Oliver Edwards in the senior men's 400m.
At the UK youth development league meeting in Deeside, Lasitha Ekanayake represented the North Wales team and he clocked 12.10 to win the U17 men's B 100-metres.
A busy spell saw Evan Williams achieve 100m times of 11.28 and 11.52 at Cardiff's Run With the Wind and the Avon Championships, the latter securing second place.
Tenth-placed Connor Rogers (14.38) was the first Wrexham AAC finisher at the Mid Cheshire 5k. He was followed by James Yarwood (200th in 16.28), Gareth Chaloner (543rd in 18.51), Richard Westwood (709th in 21.08) and Mark Hughes (809th in 26.03).
Wrexham competitors at the Newtown 10k were Richard Westwood (166th in 46.13), Andy Bennett (236th in 49.48) and Tamara Goode (428th in 57.56), while Evie Hughes (57th in 51.28) took part in the Moel y Gest fell race.
There were Deestriders' age group victories in the Mynydd Myfyr trail race for V40 Christine Cammillare (31.50) and V45 Paul Lewtey (32.32). David Temple completed the course in 36.33, while Wrexham's Charles Ashley was 48th in 40.26.
Parkruns have again proved popular for Wrexham athletes.
Rachel N Reeves (440th in 50.52) raced the Isabel trail event, Connor Rogers (13th in 21.12) was at Abermaw and Philip Walker (272nd in 30.07) competed at Weymouth.
Four members took on the Park in the Past parkrun, spear-headed by Steffan Thomas (78th in 24.40). He was followed by Senna Thomas (124th in 26.21), Deiniol Thomas (125th in 26.26) and Gruffudd Thomas (214th in 29.51).
Top-three finishers at Wepre were runner-up George Hughes (22.06) and Ally Hughes (22.06), while they were joined by clubmates Grace Hughes (15th in 24.47), Mike Robbins (19th in 25.26) and Evie Hughes (21st in 25.34).
The leading Wrexham AAC finisher at Erddig was Nick Jones (13th in 22.09) and he was followed by Amanda Bailey (21st in 23.23), Ian Grimshaw (31st in 24.21), Peter Hughes (48th in 25.42), Karl Moore (116th in 30.27), John Tipping (260th in 58.05) and Lucy Morris (261st in 58.14).
Competing at Llangollen were Tony Forster (34th in 26.52), Charles Ashley (49th in 28.32), Alexis Baty (94th in 47.51) and Peter Howell (95th in 47.52), while Evelyn Roberts (21st in 10.55) and Tomos Marriott (25th in 11.14) ran the Alyn Waters junior parkrun.
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