Three athletes from Powell River Breakers Track and Field Club attended the BC Junior Development Track and Field Provincial Championships held recently in Kamloops.
Kristen Naude and Keagen Abbott competed as nine-year-olds in their first provincials.
Naude jumped 2.56 metres and placed 10th in long jump, threw 4.03 metres, a personal best (PB), in shot put good for 11th place, and cleared 90 centimetres in high jump for ninth place. On the track she ran a PB of 2:10:52 minutes in the 600-metre race, which is a BC top-10 time, and good for fourth place. She was sixth in the 60-metre dash finals with a time of 10:52 seconds and fifth in the 60-metre hurdles with 13:9 seconds. She qualified for the 100-metre finals finishing sixth overall with a time of 16:93 seconds and grabbed bronze in the 1,000 metres with a time of 4:12:11 minutes.
Keagen placed fourth in high jump clearing 85 centimetres, and jumped a PB of 3.13 metres in long jump placing fourth and missing bronze by just two centimetres. On the track he ran 60 metres in 10:78 seconds placing fifth overall then ran the 60-metre hurdles in 13:52 seconds, a new PB and good for fifth place. He finished his meet with a sixth place overall finish in the 100 metres in a PB time of 17:46 seconds.
Calli-Ann Abbott competed as a 13-year-old, the last age group in Junior Development. In the field events she threw a PB of 25.34 metres in discus placing fourth, 19.37 metres in javelin good for seventh, launched the hammer 24.97 metres, a PB, capturing bronze, and threw the shot put 9.87 metres, also a PB and good enough for silver. In triple jump she managed a PB of 9.33 metres finishing sixth, in high jump Calli-Ann cleared 1.40 metres good enough for fourth, and claimed the silver with a new PB jump of 4.53 metres in long jump.
Calli-Ann was successful in both sprint and distance hurdles: in 80-metre hurdles she ran 13:85 seconds coming fourth (third place was 13:84 seconds), and in the 200-metre hurdles she ran 30:42 seconds claiming the silver medal. She qualified for the 100-metre finals finishing seventh overall with a time of 13:63 seconds, and also qualified for the 200-metre finals where she set a new PB time of 27:31 seconds and took home silver.
All three athletes now have their sights set on another season of training on the Timberlane track.
