Thaila-Jade Mason took the silver medal in an exciting tussle with Deeside’s Olivia Scrimshaw in the U17 long jump at the England Indoor Championships on Sunday.
Whilst Scrimshaw seized the initiative with an outstanding 5.92m jump in the first round, Thaila clawed her was back into contention jumping 5.83m in the second round and 5.87m in the last – just five centimetres shy of Scrimshaw’s winning effort. Nevertheless, Thaila was delighted with her return to form after what has been, for her, a somewhat mediocre indoor season.

In the High jump, there was a bronze medal in the Under 20 Women for Gracie Wall, who jumped 1.63 metres.
 
Meanwhile Zaphaniah Bryan was maintaining his excellent recent form in the U17 Men’s High Jump. Having recently set a lifetime personal best of 1.88m in winning the South of England title, he finished sixth with a clearance of 1.86m in a high-class competition won at 2.03m.

On the track, it was the turn of Lyla Danobrega to take a break from the mud and rain of cross country and tackle the indoor U 20 1500m. Lyla returned a time of 4m 46.12 sec. for a fine 7th place in a fast run final.