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BBC News
27-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Sawyers delighted to return after 20-month absence
"It'll be a long road, but I'm ready to work hard," said Great Britain long jumper Jazmin Sawyers when sharing the painful news, external of her Achilles rupture last injury, which ruled her out of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, came just over a year after her best moment in the sport ecstatic celebrations produced memorable images as she won the 2023 European Indoor title, jumping a UK indoor record of 7.00 metres in the 31-year-old finally competed again this month after a 20-month absence, leaping to 6.53m at the Loughborough International Athletics Meeting."It felt so, so good. I was more nervous than I can remember being for a competition," Sawyers told BBC Radio Stoke."My heart rate was high all day. Since the minute I woke up, I wasn't able to be calm. "But, just to get back and still feel like myself, to be jumping a kind of distance that I have opened with in any other normal season, I'm so pleased," she a finalist at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, did make it to a third Olympics, last summer - but as a television commentator for the her enthusiasm and expertise alongside regular contributors like Steve Backley and Jeanette Kwakye won high praise, it was certainly not her first-choice wrote on her Instagram after the Games: "I'm certain I won't be joining them again in Los Angeles in four years time. I actually have something else I'd like to do." 'We're back in long jump business' Earlier this month, Sawyers said she was back to full speed and strength in the last of a series of videos, external that she nicknamed "The Achilles Diaries".On Saturday, she rubber-stamped her return, improving her 2025 best to 6.66 in Weinheim in qualifying standard for September's World Athletics Championships in Tokyo is 6.86m, but she could still be considered for a place with 6.75m if she is high enough in the world rankings."At the minute, I'm unranked because I haven't done five competitions in the last year, so I've just got to build that back up and hopefully make my way back to my best," she injury left her unable to defend her European Indoor title in Apeldoorn in March, or contest the World Indoors in Nanjing later that month, but Sawyers is encouraged by those who competed in her absence."We're having a real moment with long jump. There was a year or two where we didn't have multiple athletes fighting for spots," she said. "But we're back in long jump business and so many of the women are brilliant athletes. Molly Palmer is due a huge jump, the same with Alice Hopkins."Palmer beat Sawyers to gain victory in Loughborough, while Hopkins made her major championship debut in Apeldoorn."We're going to keep seeing these athletes jump further," Sawyers added."That is only a good thing. It means that we all push each other on to be better."
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
New Oxford's Brayden Billman adds long jump medal to PIAA Class 3A triple jump gold
Brayden Billman was expected to win a state gold medal. He was the top seed in the Class 3A long jump and triple jump after winning both titles in the District 3 meet. The New Oxford junior did not disappoint. Advertisement Billman edged the competition in the PIAA triple jump in the first day of competition at Shippensburg University by hitting 47 feet, 5 inches. He finished fifth in the long jump on Day 2. Billman was hoping to improve on his triple jump PR at districts, but ended up hitting it on the head at 47-10.25. "So, we have plenty of room to improve," he said after receiving his district gold. "Plenty of room to improve." That improvement didn't come on a drizzly morning with temps hovering in the 50s. Not exactly ideal jumping weather, but Billman said it's something you just have to put out of your mind. Advertisement "I want to say it's difficult [to jump in these conditions]," he said, "but really it's just a mindset. You handle it or not. I can handle it whatever the weather is, cold, hot, raining, blizzard, it doesn't matter." More: Bermudian Springs' Lily Carlson adds Class 3A state title, PIAA record to resume Billman was the last jumper to start his event. He stood around for more than an hour, stretching, warming up and running through his approach. It turns out he could have stopped after his first jump. As a half-dozen competitors fouled in front of him, Billman hit his winning jump on his first attempt. He tried to replicate that, but only came as close as 47-1 on his last jump. Advertisement He thought he would have to do better than 47-5. "Honestly, I didn't think it was going to hold up," Billman said. "I thought either [Xavier] Midder or Jonah [Stucchio] was gonna pop out one there. But surprisingly it held up." Grove City's Stucchio popped a 47-1.75 on his last jump to finish second and Midder 45-10.25 to take third. Billman said winning gold helps wash out the bitter taste from last year when he didn't jump his best and finished off of the podium. It was the motivation that pushed his workouts in the offseason and in preparing for this year's meet. Billman admitted to not having the pop he needed in Saturday's long jump, but he was thrilled to come away with another state medal. New Oxford's Brayden Billman competes toward gold in the 3A triple jump during the PIAA Track and Field Championships at Shippensburg University on Friday, May 23, 2025. And like he did in the triple jump, he hit his best distance on his first attempt. Advertisement "I don't know what it is," he said about his successful first jumps. "The adrenaline hits me, and I just go farther." Reading's Xavier Beatty, who finished second to Billman in the District 3 meet, hit 24-4 on his fifth attempt to win gold. Downingtown West's Andrew Ernst was the only other entrant to pass 24 feet at 24-0.75. Billman is already looking ahead to the start of football season but the three-sport athlete isn't quite finished with track and field. He still has the New Balance nationals in June, where he's qualified for long and triple jump. This article originally appeared on York Daily Record: PIAA track and field: New Oxford senior wins Class 3A triple jump gold
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Prep talk: Receiver Darren Haggerty of Viewpoint shows off his athleticsm
Darren Haggerty of Viewpoint gets honored on the victory stand after winning the Division 4 long jump at Southern Section track and field championships. (Eric Sondheimer / Los Angeles Times) You can go ask any college football recruiter whether they'd be more impressed with a high school player who spends the majority of time in offseason seven-on-seven competitions or working on other skills in track and field? They'd always say track. Darren Haggerty of Viewpoint High is an example of a football player who's going to benefit from showing what he can do in track and field. Advertisement On Saturday, he pulled off career-best performances to win the Division 4 high jump at 6 feet, 6 inches and the long jump at 22-8 at the Southern Section championships at Moorpark High. He helped Viewpoint share the Division 4 title with Gardena Serra. He was a little shocked afterward, not knowing he had it in him. He was considered Viewpoint's best football player last fall as a sophomore, leading the team in receiving with 39 receptions for 674 yards and five touchdowns. He also had 37 tackles on defense. … Quarterback Luke Fahey led Mission Viejo to the championship of the Millikan seven-on-seven tournament, beating San Diego Lincoln in the final. San Juan Hills won the tournament at Dana Hills and Charter Oak took its own tournament title. … The semifinals are set for City Section Division I baseball on Wednesday at Stengel Field in Glendale. It will be No. 5 Verdugo Hills vs. No. 1 Banning at 6 p.m. and No. 11 Taft vs No. 2 Carson at 3 p.m. Advertisement This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
