British Indoor Championships
Arena Birmingham
Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2018
Two Kingston athletes Andrew Morgan-Harrison and Megan Hoult were in action at the British Indoor Championship meeting in Birmingham over the weekend of the 17th and 18th of February. Entry to these annual championships is by invitation only and the best athletes across the United Kingdom all hope to be given the opportunity to be crowned a British champion.
20 year old Andrew Morgan-Harrison is in the form of his life at the moment, he picked up the 9th Northern Championship medal of his career, taking the 200 metres gold at this January’s event where he established a new PB of 21.26 sec. The last weekend of January brought a trip to Austria where he won the 200 metres at the Vienna Classic meeting, and he also got the call to run at the British Championships.
The 200 metres competition took place on the Sunday where he was drawn to run in the second heat of the day, he ran an excellent race clipping 0.15 of a second off his best time to take victory and establish a new PB of 21.11 sec and qualify for the semi finals. He was seeded in the second of the semi finals where once again he was the race winner putting in another top class run of 21.20 sec which booked his place in his first British Championship final. There were three outstanding sprinters in the final, Andrew, Edmond Amaning of Thames Valley and Antonio Infantino of Kings College London and Italy who was running at the National championships as a guest and could not win a medal. The three of them were close together throughout the race which saw Infantino the first to cross the finish line in 20.77 sec. The gold medal went to Amaning in 21.04 sec and the silver to Andrew Morgan-Harrison who ran another new PB of 21.05 sec missing out on the gold by just one hundredth of a second. The bronze was taken by Elliott Powell of Leicester with his run of 21.36 sec.
Megan Hoult has been an outstanding athlete for a number of years and is held in high regard by everyone down at Costello. She is a top quality performer and is one of the first names on the team sheet for the Kingston’s senior fixtures in the North of England league matches. She won her fifth Northern Championship medal at this January’s meeting, taking the bronze in the 60 metres final and like Andrew Morgan-Harrison at the British Championships she too missed out on the silver medal by an agonising one hundredth of a second. Megan was invited to compete in the women’s 60 metres competition at Arena Birmingham which was staged on the Saturday. She was drawn to run in the third heat where she recorded a time of 7.81 sec which was not enough to get her into the semi finals.
