NICOLL LEADS BY EXAMPLE
Welshpool's Adele Nicoll played a true captain's role with double gold in the SIAB Schools' International (U17) in Dublin.
The skipper of the girls' team, she won the shot with a new pb of 13.75 and then won the discus by another comfortable margin.
There were pbs galore by North Wales squad members, including the prolific Cari Hughes, who finished third in the U17 1,500m in a brilliant 4-33.33.
Matthew Williams (Wrexham) won the discus and his rival Nathan Thomson (Colwyn Bay) picked up bronze in the shot.
The North Wales placings were:-
Women: 800m 8 Abi Backshall (CB) 2-20.80; 1,500m 3 Cari Hughes (Menai) 4-33.33 (pb); 3,000m 8 Lily Davis (Deeside) 11-15.84; 300H 7 Vicky Gittins (Mald) 45.34 (pb); LJ 6 Chloe Hughes (Dee) 5.26; TJ 6 Sarah Williams (Mald) 10.34 (pb); SP 1 Adele Nicoll (Birchfield) 13.75 (pb, 5 Sabrina Fortune (Dee) 10.37; DT 1 Nicoll 42.19, 6 Fortune 33.77; HT 6 Amber Rimmington (Dee) 40.76 (pb).
Men: 400m 5 Ryan Pike (CB) 50.77 (pb); HJ 8 Ioan Parry (Menai) 1.75; SP 3 Nathan Thomason (CB) 15.01; DT 1 Matthew Williams (Wrex) 41.84; HT 3 James Williams (CB) 59.93, 4 Thomason 57.20 (pb), 8 Shaun Livett (Menai) 47.76.
At the Birmingham Games British champion Sally Peake (Birchfield) from Hawarden won with a modest clearance of 4.00 and former Colwyn Bay sprinter Rachel Johncock (Swansea), who won gold with the GB relay team last week, finished fourth in the 200m in 24.28.
Welshpool's Adele Nicoll played a true captain's role with double gold in the SIAB Schools' International (U17) in Dublin.
The skipper of the girls' team, she won the shot with a new pb of 13.75 and then won the discus by another comfortable margin.
There were pbs galore by North Wales squad members, including the prolific Cari Hughes, who finished third in the U17 1,500m in a brilliant 4-33.33.
Matthew Williams (Wrexham) won the discus and his rival Nathan Thomson (Colwyn Bay) picked up bronze in the shot.
The North Wales placings were:-
Women: 800m 8 Abi Backshall (CB) 2-20.80; 1,500m 3 Cari Hughes (Menai) 4-33.33 (pb); 3,000m 8 Lily Davis (Deeside) 11-15.84; 300H 7 Vicky Gittins (Mald) 45.34 (pb); LJ 6 Chloe Hughes (Dee) 5.26; TJ 6 Sarah Williams (Mald) 10.34 (pb); SP 1 Adele Nicoll (Birchfield) 13.75 (pb, 5 Sabrina Fortune (Dee) 10.37; DT 1 Nicoll 42.19, 6 Fortune 33.77; HT 6 Amber Rimmington (Dee) 40.76 (pb).
Men: 400m 5 Ryan Pike (CB) 50.77 (pb); HJ 8 Ioan Parry (Menai) 1.75; SP 3 Nathan Thomason (CB) 15.01; DT 1 Matthew Williams (Wrex) 41.84; HT 3 James Williams (CB) 59.93, 4 Thomason 57.20 (pb), 8 Shaun Livett (Menai) 47.76.
At the Birmingham Games British champion Sally Peake (Birchfield) from Hawarden won with a modest clearance of 4.00 and former Colwyn Bay sprinter Rachel Johncock (Swansea), who won gold with the GB relay team last week, finished fourth in the 200m in 24.28.
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