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ASHFORD and Shepway athletes had a fine day at the Kent Schools championships at the Julie Rose track landing 15 county medals.
There was a terrific gold for Folkestone’s Amelia Jones clocking 2:22.35 in the intermediate girls’ 800m and Kayleigh Miller-Leslie had a super day with two medals taking the silver in the 80m hurdles and added bronze in the 100m.
Shepway enjoyed success in the field events with silvers for Kirsten Hooten in the javelin and J Davidson in the shot while Sophie Hamlyn landed a bronze in the triple jump.
This was the most successful of the age groups for local athletes with Ashford’s Lauren Bamford taking silver in the 300m hurdles and teammate Millie Piper was second in the high jump. Louise Barclay took a hard earned bronze in the 3000m.
Other Ashford AC’s athletes were in action for their regions with Caitlin Dock winning the pole vault title for Canterbury Schools from Ashford AC teammate Sam Lynch (SE Kent) and Hester Hill added the silver in the 200m for Canterbury.
There was a splendid gold for Shepway’s Jack Goss in the junior boys 1500m while Ben Isaac (Maidstone) claimed silvers in the 80m hudles and long jump while Aaron Meakin landed bronze in the hammer for SE Kent schools.
In the junior girls Ashford’s Sophie Ledger secured a brilliant English Schools standard 10.13m in winning the shot while Shepway’s Ellie Gooding took the silver in the 75m hurdles.
Ashford had two fine successes in the junior boys with Tom Williams taking the silver in the 400m hurdles and Tom Snare the bronze in the shot. Ashford’s Matt Blandford,who competed for Tonbridge Schools, had a triple triumph winning the shot, discus and javelin, all with massive personal bests.
There were silvers for Ashford’s Ed Miller in the Year 7 shot and Shepway’s Josh Palmer in the long jump while Ruby Cox sprinted to bronze in the Year 7 girls’ 100m.