DESPITE being held right in the middle of the four day Jubilee weekend, a small Thanet Athletics Club youth team travelled to Bromley for the second of this year's Kent Young Athletes League meetings.

Omega Skeen enhanced her growing reputation with equal second in the U13 Girls 75m with a new personal best of 10.7s and national Grade 3, her first such grading.

Personal best: Diana Adegoke

javelin win: Amber Guyatt

She followed that with a 22 second-run and fourth place in the 150m, another personal best and another national grade, this time Grade 4.

On a day when 11 of the 12 girls in the 75m achieved national grades, Maddy Johnson clocked a new personal best of 11 seconds and national Grade 4.

But she eclipsed that with an incredible performance in the high jump, which Maddy won with a 1.41m leap, smashing her previous official best of 1.30m, achieving national Grade 1 and a place in the top 15 of the national rankings.

The personal bests continued to come thick and fast in the U15 Girls, with Diana Adegoke and Tamara Anderson clocking 27.2 and 27.7 for national Grade 3 and Grade 4 respectively. Diana also won the long jump with 4.84m.

Georgina Anderson produced a massive 1.55m in the U15 Girls high jump, winning the competition by 10cm, adding 2cm to her own personal best, achieving national Grade 1 and also a place in the national top 20.

Chantelle Bailey matched her personal best and national Grade 4 with 1.40cm in the high jump. Amber Guyatt won the javelin with 26.47cm, just 5cm short of her own best.

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Girls up the pace as personal bests are clocked up at meet