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Mayer gets off the mark in fine style

Daniel Sacks Award winner Angelika Mayer, 13, registered two top ten PBs at the Scottish National Open in Glasgow, while Tomer Tarragano was also in fine form.

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The Giffnock North athlete’s performances in the 60m (7.95 seconds) and 200m (26.14) at the Emirates Arena place her tenth and seventh respectively in the current UK U15 rankings. 

At the London Indoor Games at Lee Valley, U13 Dina Silverman of Shaftesbury Harriers clocked a 2:35.29 800m and is now ranked 15th in the UK.

Jacob Clement, 12, lowered his own 800m PB by 13 seconds to 2:22.64, while MLH team-mate Jayden Klein, 13, cleared 1.50m in the high jump for the first time.

Away from the track, England international Hannah Viner was on hand to help the Highgate Harriers senior women’s team secure victory at the South of England cross country championships at Parliament Hill, London.

“This was my first race since the beginning of December as I’d been ill for a few weeks so, unusually for me, I was quite nervous,” admitted Viner, 23, who fits training and competitions around her full-time job as a press officer in the civil service.

“But you have to commit from the beginning, so I put myself among the first 20 runners very early on and slowly began to move up the field.”

She said: “It was quite a challenging course — the ground was ridiculously muddy — but I kept my mind in gear and just focused on what was ahead, rather than letting myself get distracted by the conditions.”

In the U20 men’s race, Brighton & Hove’s Tomer Tarragano missed out on gold by centimetres, pipped at the post by the eventual winner. The two were so close on the line that they recorded exactly the same time, down to one hundredth of a second.

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