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Rion Pierre set a championship record of 6.67 to take the title while Ashlee Nelson lowered her PB to 7.45 for the victory
BRUNEL’S Rion Pierre set a championship best performance to win the 60m in 6.67 at the BUCS Indoor Championships in Sheffield, March 13-14. The European under-23 bronze medallist has competed very sparingly this winter but the Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow athlete showed no signs of race rustiness as he defeated the competition by more than two-tenths.
Germany’s Sven Knipphals, who attends Bournemouth University, took second in the 60m in 6.92 but won the 200m in 21.22, which was just shy of his season’s best of 21.04 which he set at the German Indoor Championships last month.
In the women’s 60m, Ashlee Nelson pipped Elaine O’Neill in a very tight final. In her first race of the year, the 19-year-old world junior silver medallist lowered her 60m PB from 7.63 to 7.45 to defeat O’Neill by two-hundredths.
Edirin Okoro shocked Gianni Frankis in the 60m hurdles. Okoro took the win in 7.97 to defeat the pre-race favourite by six-hundredths.
Ricky Stevenson’s victory over Chris Mulhare in the 3000m was among the highlights in the endurance events. The 4km winner at the Bupa Great Edinburgh International Cross Country event clocked 8:04.21 to Mulhare’s 8:05.06.
In the 1500m, world junior 800m fourth placer Alison Leonard took victory in 4:23.76.
In the long jump, Matthew Burton set a championship record of 7.69m for the win while Gemma Weetman won the women’s long jump with 6.02m.
Sally Scott took the pole vault with a clearance of 4.00m.
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