Wales Shine at UK Championships

The Welsh team that took part in the recent UK track Championships secured a massive 17 medals and achieved an excellent 2nd place overall.
Setting the standard early on, Wales picked up 3 medals in the first 3 events of the day. Christina Hughes grabbed up a deserved Gold in the Pole Vault after just missing a clearance of 3.60m, which would have equalled her personal best. David Guest picked up an excellent Silver medal in the Long Jump, by leaping to a huge 6.88m, which was only 5cm less of his season's best. Rhys Hodnett secured the next medal, silver in the Hammer, throwing a remarkable personal best of 59.51m.
Day 2 started in the same way with Megan Rogers running an excellent time of 43.09 in the 300m Hurdles. Hannah Thomas won gold in the 100m, and Tomas Coleman took bronze in the men's 100m race. The Gold haul for Wales was completed by Benytta Doman who ran a perfect 800m race, Brea Leung (Discus), Ieuan Coombes (Seated Discuss) and Daniel Lucker (Wheelchair 100m).
Overall it was a superb day for Welsh Athletics and obviously all the athletes were buoyant after the success of the Senior athletes recently in Beijing. Everyone connected with Welsh athletics will be determined to see this crop of athletes pulling on the Red vest of Wales for the senior squad in the not to distant future, and with performances like these it is definitely a strong possibility.