Ultimate ideas of GB Indoor Champs
From a advertising perspective, UKA bought every little thing incorrect through the Microplus UK Athletics Indoor Championships. As everybody is aware of, spectators solely need a slick 2-hour program with as few discipline occasions as potential. But there was UKA providing a seven-hour program on the primary day and over 5 hours on the second day, overlaying the total vary of the game – even race-walking and para-athletics. But the sold-out, record-breaking 7,000 crowd liked it.
There have been superstars of British athletics – Lara Muir and Katarina Johnson-Thompson. There have been wins for Morgan Lake and Jemma Reekie. There have been wonderful shot put competitions gained by Scott Lincoln and Amelia Campbell (nee Strickler)
Jeremiah Azu was the quickest man, Amy Hunt the quickest girl. Three of the six finalists within the ladies’s dash ultimate have been youngsters – what a possibility for them to run in entrance of an enormous crowd.
The 400m athletes had to slot in three rounds in slightly over 24 hours, and did they ship – I’ve given them tomorrow off – properly, tomorrow morning. Lee Thompson gained the lads’s and Laviai Nielsen the ladies’s regardless of her annoying twin sister making an attempt to spoil her day!
In that beautiful, unpredictable method that our sport has, the standout occasion was Molly Caudery’s world-leading 4.85 within the ladies’s pole vault. It was a pole vault competitors of two halves, with three athletes attaining PRs, however Caudery gained the competitors along with her first leap, coming in at 4.41; she cleared 4.61. 4.75. 4.85 and had a go at 4.91 earlier than ready for a delighted crowd.
TV protection was on BBC – accessible to all – with wonderful commentary and evaluation.
My solely disappointment was that that is it for indoor athletics. Birmingham was scheduled to host the WA indoor sequence ultimate – because it didn’t final 12 months. There was no official announcement as to why, however the ultimate shall be in Madrid, not Birmingham.
Stuart Weir is recovering from surgical procedure and was overlaying the occasion remotely.
