Athletics Weekly – July 24, 2019

ACTION EUROPEAN ATHLETICS UNDER-20 CHAMPIONSHIPS,

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IX golds, including one as

part of a clean sweep of

medals, helped the Great

Britain and Northern Ireland

team to top of the table after four

days of action in Borås, Sweden.

Oliver Dustin led a brilliant

battle in the men’s 800m, pipping

team-mates Ben Pattison and

Finley McLear, while Isabelle Boffey

won the women’s race and Keely

Hodgkinson claimed bronze.

Britain’s other winners were Amy

Hunt in the 200m, Joshua Zeller

in the 110m hurdles and both

women’s relay teams.

Elsewhere there were stand-

out performances by Ukrainian

hammer thrower Myhaylo Kokhan

and high jumper Yaroslava

Mahuchikh, Sweden’s Tilde

Johansson, Spanish heptathlon star

Maria Vicente and Swiss middle-

distance runner Delia Sclabas, while

Italy’s Larisa Iapichino and Russia’s

Aksana Gataullina followed in the

footsteps of their parents Fiona

May and Rodion Gataullinto with

respective long jump and pole

vault wins.

Brits on top in Borås

SUCCESS IN SWEDEN

FOR OLIVER DUSTIN,

AMY HUNT, ISABELLE

BOFFEY, JOSHUA

ZELLER AND BRITISH

RELAY TEAMS

PICTURES: GETTY IMAGES

FOR EUROPEAN ATHLETICS

Medal table

Place Nation G S B To tal

1 GBR 6 3 6 15

2 ITA 5 3 3 11

3 NED 4 5 1 10

4 UKR 4 2 0 6

5 TUR 3 4 3 10

6 GER 3 3 2 8

7 SUI 3 2 2 7

8 ESP 3 1 4 8

=9 BLR 2 2 0 4

=9 SWE 2 2 0 4

Clean sweep:

Oliver Dustin

wins the 800m

from Ben

Pattison and

Finley McLear