The perfect five from five personal bests (PBs) have been a scarce commodity of late at the Mount Isa Athletics club competition days but it seems that the drought may have been broken.
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Two athletes, 10-year-old Luke Alexander and 16-year-old Teaghan Goodger, both managed to accomplish the feat at a recent club day which brings the season tally to three.
It could have been much different though, 12 others, Katie Brock, Connor Howard, Jayden Boshoff, Riley Williams, Tyson Hales, Lili Clewett, Imogen Beetham, Hayley Brock, Jaxon Constantinou, Jessie-Mae Eggmolesse, Erin Faithful and Clair Ellen all ended the day only one PB short of the clean sweep finishing with four.
Tileah Mearns and Lulu Morley also put in a gallant effort accomplishing three PBs plus an equal with both mirroring their 100 metre personal bests.
It was impossible to single out one particular age group as the best performers as virtually every group achieved better than a 50 per cent success rate with the club as a whole achieving 220 PBs.
Club records were looking a little scarce as the results were being entered but then Breanna ‘Cannon’ Waerea opened the flood gates for the older age athletes. Cannon added a metre to her 14 years women’s Discus record throwing 28.24 metres.
Erin Faithful did similar adding a half meter to her under 18 Discus.
Mitchell Hujanen’s running battle with coach Ken Dickson for Discus supremacy seemed to be getting tighter as Mitch pulled off a three metre PB to close the gap but unbeknown to him Ken himself had already added a metre and a half to his 50-54 year men’s Discus record.
There were many excellent performances in the 800 metre races across all of the age groups, shining brightest was Lachy McCoy who took three seconds off the 16 years men’s record and Clair Ellen dropped the Open women’s 800 metre time under three minutes running 2m 55.1s.
Three jumps records were also bettered by Erin Faithful under 18s women’s long jump – 4.44 metres, Ken Dickson 50-54 years men’s long jump - 4.28 metres and James Stewart raised the bar to 1.49 metres in the 30-34 year men’s high jump.
In a big slow down of Legend Certificates to be awarded, only four were achieved by Michaela Bracs – 100 metres and 200 metres, Tia Peel – Discus and Sienna Stehbens – High Jump.
‘Mighty Minion’ for the week was Michael Sexton, 4, for his great effort in Hurdles and Big throw in Discus.
Breanna Waerea and Michelle Bracs both elevated their Athletics North Queensland (ANQ) Development Squad qualifiers from Silver to Gold.
Breanna with her 28.24 metre throw in Discus and Michelle’s 25.08 metre effort in Javelin.
There will be no club day on June 4 as a number of the clubs athletes and officials will be trekking to Townsville to compete at the ANQ Student Games which incorporates the ANQ All Comers and QMA (Queensland Masters) State Championships.
The event has attracted over 600 competitors which includes athletes attempting to achieve qualifiers for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.