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PIPPA EARLEY CONTINUES HER GOOD FORM BUT IS DENIED NEW RECORD BY A MISSING PERMIT AND WIND READING

ATHLETES from across Great Britain and Northern Ireland were in action at Loughborough. The event did not have a UK permit and performances would not count for record purposes.

Just five days after breaking the UK under-17 80m hurdles record with 10.97 at the England U17/U15 Championships in Bedford, Pippa Earley was again among those to impress as she went faster still.

Clocking 10.94, the 16-year-old got gold for the South team ahead of English Schools champion Marcia Sey’s 11.04, though Earley’s time wouldn’t have counted anyway as an improvement of her national record due to there also being no wind gauge reading, though there were for most of the sprints, and the readings were nearly all legal.

Sey was also denied a PB as she bettered her 11.05 from her win in Birmingham, where Earley competed in the long jump.

Another athlete running the race of her life was Amber Anning, who was the Commonwealth Youth Games 400m bronze medallist.

She took a huge chunk off her PB with a time of 37.79 to break the School Games 300m record. That mark puts her third on the UK under-17 all-time outdoor list. Her previous 2017 UK lead was 38.5.

Ahead of her from the past are Linsey MacDonald’s unapproachable 36.46 from 1980 – the year she made the Olympic final, and Cheriece Hylton’s 37.59.