One word…HUGE
The day got off to a flyer with Dylan Johnson getting a 15:43m Triple Jump (breaking his own club record) on the board in qualifying for automatic progression to Saturday’s Final.
Deluca Lawson-Matthew has also qualified for the semi-finals of the 400m in running 47.92s.
Then the SKAAC 800m championship, that also counts this year as the National Championship 🙂 was SKAAC domination, with Luke Mathews the fastest qualifier in 1:47.15, and Alex Rowe (1:48.03) coming 3rd in the same heat. Peter Bol won heat 2 in 1:49.90. So it will be 3 SKAAC athletes in Saturday’s 800m final to be run at 7:50pm.
And then shortly after 8:00pm the crowning highlight of a magnificent 1st day was the first gold medal which was magnificently won by Sam McEntee in the 5,000m in 13:37.95 beating home a quality field containing Robinson & St. Lawrence.
Plenty of action tomorrow, with the 100m Heats (Joel Bee, Michael Romanin), 1500 preliminaries (Luke Mathews, Jack Holden & Sam McEntee), 400m semis (Deluca Lawson-Matthew), Long Jump (Zach Nelson) and the 10,000m Walk featuring Jason Kozica.
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