ATHLETICS: More British titles and records for Rugby's Sally Hine

Sally Hine, in the space of a fortnight, has claimed eight British indoor athletic titles and two national records.

The Rugby & Northampton Athletic Club athlete entered the women’s 70 age group this year and set her sights high aiming for the European indoor championships in Portugal this month.

Unfortunately this is not to be due to restrictions imposed in Portugal in the face of the corona virus.

In the build up to this event Sally has targeted the British Championships down at Lee Valley over the past two weeks. At the end of February she claimed her first title in the Indoor Pentathlon breaking the British record by over 500 points and also setting a new indoor 60m hurdles record on route.

The following weekend she helped the Midlands to an inter area victory. Then last weekend she took on seven individual events in the British Championships.

Carrying on from her previous hurdles victory, Sally lowered her own British indoor W70 60mH time, in a photo-finish with an ex-teammate, to 12.19s; both having the same time to the 1/100th of a second. Sally claiming the title by a dip.

Following this came six more titles; 60m 10.20 PB, shot 6.13m, high jump 1.05m, long jump 2.94m, triple jump 6.70m PB, 200m 35.64s.

On the Power of 10 British Rankings Sally is No.1 for eight of the indoor events in her age group.

Also at Lee Valley, Craig Christian M40, showed his winter training is going well with three indoor PBs, 60m 7.43s-3rd, 200m 25.61s -4th, and 400m 57.86s-3rd.

John Moreland M60 contested outdoors at Lee Valley; winning the discus with 51.49m, shot 12.17m 3rd, hammer 41.57m 4th, and 9kg weight 16.06m 2nd. His discus throw is the leading one in the country in his age group so far this year.