Young Hastings athletes on track for glory

By Benji Symes and Nick Brown
Published 6th May 2022, 11:15 BST
Updated 6th May 2022, 11:37 BST
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There was chance for the young athletes of HY Runners to shine last week.

Their programme of ‘Kids Train For Free’ is starting to reap rewards as HY’s youngsters have gone from fun runners to serious contenders in a short space of time.

On Friday evening the kids kicked off the weekend as they took on the Eastbourne Sussex Young Athletes League.

Future of running in good hands - or feet.

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This was a track and field meeting, a first of its kind for the HY kids, and they all fared extremely well, coming third in the overall medal table with a points tally of 81 points, beating stallwarts such as Lewes and Phoenix, and being beaten by only Brighton and Hove, and Eastbourne Harriers.

This was despite being disqualified from the 4x100m relay for coming out of lane. A range of events from 100m to 1500m, the long jump to hurdles and the throws were tried.

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