Race Results for
February
2008
Last amended at
24-09-15
England Athletics
Indoor Championships 2008 -
NIA, Birmingham 23 & 24/02/2008
English
Cross-Country Championships - Alton Towers 23-02-2008
Kent County Athletics
Cross Country League Results - Nurstead Court,
Meopham 16/02/2008
Southern Schools' Inter Country Champs, Paddock Wood, February 9, 2008
Extract from UKA Report
Norwich Union Combined Events
International at Sheffield.
3 February 2008.
The women’s
pentathlon – in which GB fielded arguably their least-experienced team ever –
was vividly illuminated by Grace Clements (Dartford Harriers)
celebrating her GB debut in sensational style by improving her lifetime bests in
all five events.
She spent
Saturday evening entertaining guests at the teams’ hotel by playing requests on
the piano – and then proved she is perfectly in athletics tune. She lowered her
60m hurdles best from 8.93 to 8.77 seconds. She improved her high jump
incredibly by five increments from 1.64 to 1.78m. She increased her shot from
12.52m to 12.66m. She extended her long jump from 5.77m to 5.87m. And she ran
800m in 2:21.03, her quickest by 2.11 seconds.
All of which
meant she improved her pentathlon best points score from 3876 to 4237, lifting
her from 37th to seventh in the UK all-time senior women’s behind
Kelly Sotherton (4927), Jessica Ennis (4716),
Julie Hollman (4498), Kim Hagger (4363),
Julia Bennett (4297), Vikki Schofield (4238).
Her heroics
earned her second place behind Denisa Scerbova, who increased
the Czech national record to 4632 in repeating her success of 12 months ago in
this match.
