Annual match on Sunday also sees Katarina Johnson-Thompson in Action
Laughborough Sport Molly Palmer academic overcame the female length jump in Laughborough International Athletics (LIA) in an event that saw Jazmin Sawyers make a long -awaited return for an injury.
Palmer, 21, jumped magnificently to register 6.67m (2.4m) as Sawyers, the European interior champion of 2023, registered 6.53m (0.0) in the first competition since he broke an Achilles last year.
Wales International Abigail Pawlett finished third in a better 6.17m Personal (1.7m).
“Competing again feels so fun, it’s great,” Sawyers told Laughborough Sport. “It is good to feel like me. Today was to compete again but also reach the score of 6.50m. I felt that I was 6.60m in the tank, but it was not.
“If I had to ignore the fact that I have come out for months, that was a solid performance. Hat went to Molly … that was incredible.”
In another place, on another day of first -class athletics on campus, the multitude of capacity received the treatment of a more sporty drama that is now synonymous with Lia.
In 100-meter female obstacles, Dani Hales imposed heptatlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson to win at 13.51 (2.2). Johnson-Thompson registered 13.57 in his first outdoor competition since he won the Heptathlon Silver in Paris last summer.
Pawlett was faster in the 100 m race of obstacles, he thought, breaking 13 seconds with 12.97 (0.5).
Later in the day, former Laughborough student, Bekah Walton dominated the female wild boar to win with a distance of 59.38m.
The Jamaican international and the three -time interior medalist Kimberly Williams also affirmed first place in the triple women’s jump with 13.32m.
Renee Regis won the 100 m of women in a PB or 11.32 (0.3).
Scott Lincoln launched an excellent 21.06m to win the male bullet launch.
Representing Wales, Olivia Breen showed a good way to earn the women’s leap for 4.84m. The double medalist of the Paralympic Games exceeded the 4.62M of GB Junior Maddie Down and Molly Kingsbury of England.
The New Zealand Imogen Ayris, who won the Bronze of the Commonwealth in Birmingham in 2022, exceeded the women’s pole jump with a height of 4.45 m.
Back on the track, Thomas Young, another academic from Laughborough Sport, questioned home in the paragraph of Men’s 100m at 11.19 seconds.
Complete results here.
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