Last ideas of GB Indoor Champs
From a advertising and marketing standpoint, UKA acquired all the things fallacious throughout the Microplus UK Athletics Indoor Championships. As everybody is aware of, spectators solely need a slick 2-hour program with as few subject occasions as potential. But there was UKA providing a seven-hour program on the primary day and over 5 hours on the second day, protecting the complete vary of the game – even race-walking and para-athletics. But the sold-out, record-breaking 7,000 crowd beloved 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 glorious shot put competitions received by Scott Lincoln and Amelia Campbell (nee Strickler)
Jeremiah Azu was the quickest man, Amy Hunt the quickest lady. Three of the six finalists within the ladies’s dash closing had been youngsters – what a chance for them to run in entrance of an enormous crowd.
The 400m athletes had to slot in three rounds in somewhat over 24 hours, and did they ship – I’ve given them tomorrow off – properly, tomorrow morning. Lee Thompson received the lads’s and Laviai Nielsen the ladies’s regardless of her annoying twin sister attempting to break her day!
In that pretty, unpredictable approach 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 received 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 glorious commentary and evaluation.
My solely disappointment was that that is it for indoor athletics. Birmingham was scheduled to host the WA indoor collection closing – because it didn’t final 12 months. There was no official announcement as to why, however the closing can be in Madrid, not Birmingham.
Stuart Weir is recovering from surgical procedure and was protecting the occasion remotely.
