Athletics Weekly – July 24, 2019

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ACTION EUROPEAN ATHLETICS UNDER-20 CHAMPIONSHIPS, BORÅS, SWEDEN, JULY 18-21


title was won by Turkey in 3:08.34.


The GB men’s quartet, after runs


from Lewis Davey, Callum Dodds


and Ben Hawkes, led on the final


leg of their heat. However, their


campaign came to an end as


Michael Fagbenie pulled up injured


after 70m.


Italy’s Edoardo Scotti, who was


fourth at last year’s World U20


Championships, clocked 45.85 to


win the men’s 400m. Britain’s Ethan


Brown finished strongly but had to


be content with fifth in 46.45, just


one hundredth outside his PB.


Britain had high hopes in the


men’s 200m, but Joe Ferguson,


who was second on the season


rankings, could not take his place in


the semi-final on Saturday morning


due to a calf injury he sustained in


his heat on Friday. Ireland’s Aaron


Sexton thus went into the final as


favourite but was marginally run
out of the medals in fourth in 21.18.
Gold went to Netherlands’ Onyema
Adigida in 21.08 as Germany’s Elias
Goer (21.16) took silver. Third was
Italy’s Mattia Donola in 21.18 while
Britain’s Praise Olatoke was fifth in
21.21.
Britain gained three golds on day
three and joining Hunt and Boffey in
victory was Josh Zeller after a great
display of hurdling. The Brit clocked
13.39 to come home well clear in
the 110m hurdles as Netherlands’
Mark Heiden was second with a PB
of 13.58 and France’s Paul Chabauty
was third in 13.64.
“I feel great,” said Zeller. “I came
here for that gold medal and it feels
so amazing to have gone and done
what I have been thinking about for
however many months.”
Jack Sumners missed out on the

final, finishing sixth in his semi-final
in 13.87.
Lucy-Jane Matthews had the race
of her life as she claimed bronze in
the 100m hurdles in a UK under-18
best of 13.38. The youngest athlete
in the field was 0.13 under her
previous PB.
Home nation favourite Tilde
Johansson was a clear winner,
taking more than two tenths from
her PB with 13.16. GB’s Marcia Sey
had clocked 13.88 but missed out
on the final by 0.03 seconds.
There was another home win
in the men’s 400m hurdles as
Carl Bengtstrom got gold in the in
50.32 ahead of Britain’s Seamus
Derbyshire who ran a 50.86 PB.
Derbyshire’s compatriot Alistair
Chalmers, by far the quickest in
Europe in the age group this year,
had been disqualified at the semi-

final stage for running outside of
his lane.
The women’s 400m hurdles title
was claimed by Femke Bol of the
Netherlands after a run of 56.25,
with GB’s Marcey Winter finishing
sixth with a PB of 58.18.
There was double sprint success
for Italy as the nation claimed a
100m double through Lorenzo
Paissan and Vittoria Fontana.
First, Paissan won the men’s title
in 10.44 (0.0m/sec) from Poland’s
Antoni Plichta with 10.52 as Chad
Miller claimed Britain’s first medal
of the championships, clocking
10.53 for bronze.
“I am really, really happy,”
said Miller. “It is a battle. At
championships you don’t look for
times, you look to fight, it’s war.
“Bronze is very special, it is my
first Great Britain medal. I wanted

Tilde
Johansson:
sprint
hurdles
winner

Femke Bol:
400m hurdles
victory

Thomas Carmoy:
high jump gold
for Belgium

Josh Zeller: storms to 110m hurdles gold


Home win: Carl
Bengtstrom won the
400m hurdles from
Seamus Derbyshire
and Slovakia’s Matej
Baluch
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