Gold medal treble for top Raymond Terrace athlete Ashlyn Wall

RAYMOND Terrace golden girl Ashlyn Wall has stamped herself the queen of the track. 

The 18-year-old middle distance runner again showed her class and race smarts with a gold medal haul at the Region 2 Athletics Championships at Maitland Regional Athletics Centre last weekend.

Ashlyn underlined her potential by clinching the Women’s Under 20s 400m, 800m and 1500m titles in dominant style.

In all three finals, Wall proved too strong for Macquarie-Hunter rival and three-time silver medalist Monika Urane.

Ashlyn clocked a time of 1.00.11 sec to snare gold in the Women’s Under 20s 400m final from Urane (1:11.92 sec) and followed it up with a cracking run to claim gold in the 800m final with a time of 2:13.05 seconds.

She also blitzed the field to win the Women’s Under 20s 1500m gold medal in a sizzling time of 4:52.70 seconds – a testimony of her endurance skills.

Wall’s triple treat on the track in Maitland followed her success at the NSW Country Athletics Championships earlier this year when she brought home two gold medals in the Women’s Under 20s 400m and 800m events and a silver in the 1500m decider.

She was one of three Raymond Terrace Athletics Centre juniors to secure gold at the three day event – along with nine-year-old Scarlet Lodge and 10-year-old Winter Robson – qualifying for the upcoming NSW Junior Athletics titles.

Lodge blitzed the 9yrs Girls 100m final – grabbing gold with a time of 15.86 seconds from silver medalist Georgia Lester of Warnervale (16.67 sec) and Eastlakes’ Thea Harrison, who finished third.

Rising field athlete Robson collected gold in the 10yrs Girls Long Jump final with a winning leap of 3.92m from Terrigal-Wamberal’s Evie Collie (3.32m).

Talented Port Stephens long jumpers Joy Schneider (3.57m) and Malia Foster (3.35m) finished fourth and eighth respectively in a quality final.

By Chris KARAS