EMERGING race walker Audrey Russell has continued her record breaking feats on the athletics track.
Audrey, 14, was one of four Raymond Terrace Athletics Centre prospects to smash records last weekend at the annual Port Hunter Zone Athletics Championships at Mallabula Sports Complex.
Competing in hot conditions, the talented junior underlined her potential when she won the Girls 14yrs 1500m race walk in a record time of 7min 34.19 secs.
Just as impressive were promising sprinter Scarlett Lodge, who clinched the Girls 9 yrs 70m sprint title in record fashion – clocking a time of 11.26 secs – and Asher MacDonald, who claimed gold in the Girls 13 yrs 400m final in record time.
Rising sprinter Ashlyn Wall was also in a record-breaking mood – securing the Girls Under 20s 400m title to cap a memorable meet for the Raymond Terrace club.
The two-day event was hotly contested in both competition quality and weather conditions.
Raymond Terrace Athletics Centre fielded 25 athletes ranging in age from eight years to under 20, with the club’s three relay teams collecting medals in their respective 4 x 100m finals..
The talented Junior Girls quartet of Scarlett, 9, Matilda Shawyer, 10, Evie Gentle, 11, and Winter Robson, 10, snared gold, while the Senior Girls combination of MacDonald, 13, Russell, 14, Sydnee Farrelly, 16, and Clair Cousins, 14, grabbing the silver medal in a time of 59.40 seconds.
Promising nine-year-old sprinters Riley Dowse and Kobi Gentle teamed with top 11-year-olds Austin Lodge and Jack Peach, to bring home a bronze medal in the Junior Boys Relay Final – clocking 1.06.19 seconds to secure a podium finish.
Raymond Terrace Athletics Centre secretary Deidre Hall praised the efforts of the club’s outstanding crop of junior athletes, who have opened the new season in encouraging form.
“To smash four records on the track and pick up relay medals in three finals was a tremendous achievement by our athletes and augurs well for the future,” she told News Of The Area.
By Chris KARAS
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