Brits in type at Irina Szewinska Memorial and Continental Tour Gold assembly, however a mid-race pile-up within the girls’s 800m ruins Jemma Reekie’s and Issy Boffey’s hopes.
British athletes Ben Pattison and Alastair Chalmers had been among the many winners on Friday (Might 29) on the Irina Szewinska Memorial in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Pattison gained the boys’s 800m in convincing fashion in 1:45.58 with a robust closing 150m as fellow Brit Henry Jonas was third in 1:46.25. Pattison has historical past in Bydgoszcz as he gained right here in 2023.
Chalmers equally produced a robust end within the 400m hurdles to win in 48.71 as GB team-mate Emily Newnham ran 55.46 for second within the girls’s 400m hurdles.
One of many essential speaking factors of the night time, although, was an enormous pile-up within the girls’s 800m.
Jemma Reekie was main because the 13-strong discipline hit the ultimate bend however was clipped and unintentionally pushed from behind and hit the bottom exhausting. A sequence response induced different athletes to fall, together with Britain’s Issy Boffey – and neither Reekie nor Boffey had been capable of end.
Phoebe Gill managed to keep away from the worst of the issues however light somewhat within the dwelling straight to complete fourth in 2:01.50 in her first 800m for the reason that Paris Olympics.
Valentina Rosamilia of Switzerland gained the race in 2:00.73 from Nelly Jepkosgei of Bahrain and Renelle Lamote of France.
Elsewhere, Klaudia Kazimierska of Poland loved a runaway victory within the girls’s 1500m on dwelling soil. She clocked 3:59.99 as Brits Erin Wallace and Melissa Courtney-Bryant ran 4:04.01 and 4:04.04 in second and third.
Natalia Bukowiecka gave the house crowd an excellent finish to the assembly with a girls’s 400m victory in 50.12 with Britain’s Yemi Mary John pushing her shut in second with 50.36.
