Swindon Harriers’ Lucy Bull looks set to finish the season as the number one under-15 in the UK in the javelin after another monster throw at the Nuneaton Open.

Bull’s superb summer may be coming to a close but once again she underlined why she has established herself as the best young javelin thrower in the country.

The 14-year-old, who is coached by Alan Brown, won the Nuneaton Open meeting on Sunday with another big throw of 42.01 metres and while that didn’t threaten her personal best of 44.06 metres, which puts her number one in the UK under-15 Rankings, it was still superior to the best throw of the girl who is third best in the country.

 

 

It was Bull’s fourth-best throw in a season which has seen her crowned junior girls’ javelin champion at the prestigious English Schools’ Track & Field Championships, also breaking the meeting record and also won gold at the Midland Counties Championships.

Bull also broke the Wessex Young Athletes League under-15s record as well with that lifetime best of 44.06 metres in the final match on the Isle of Wight which secured the Harriers the league title so all in all a fabulous season for the sports-mad teenager, who also plays cricket for Gloucestershire.

Elsewhere for the club, Emma Hines has been crowned the 2024 Wiltshire five-mile road champion.

Hines finished as the second woman overall in the Compton Bassett 5 but was the first county finisher as the winner – Cecile Andersen of Bath University and Milton Keynes – wasn’t eligible for that crown.

Hines was using the race on Sunday as part of her build-up to the Oxford half marathon next month and despite now racing in the W50 age group beat all her other county rivals by some margin as she clocked a very respectable time of 31:37.

Interestingly that time is considerably faster than the 32:24 she recorded just over twelve months ago.

Lottie Harding took home the victory at the Yeovil Games in the under-15 three-kilogram hammer as she threw the third-best distance of her season with a 38.46-metre throw.

South West hammer under-17 number two Holly Scott was also in action in Yeovil and she was just a metre short of her personal best throw with 46.35 metres, Kieran Golding competed in the shot, discus, and javelin, and Charissa Griffiths-Clack raced the mile for the first time and finished with a strong time despite the heavy rain.