More records have fallen to Aspiring Athletes Club (AAC) runner Phoebe Laker.

Despite high winds at a recent meet at the Caledonian in Dunedin, Phoebe (16) “set the meeting alight” with an outstanding run in the 400m, which combined all the women’s grades over age 16 into one race, AAC senior coach Michael Beable said.

“In what virtually became a time trial for her, she recorded a major personal best (PB) of 0.82 second, with a stunning one-lap time of 55.34 seconds,” he said.

Headwinds of at least 4.8m/s on the home straight ruled out the possibility for athletes to record their fastest times in the 100m, with most off their best by about 0.5s.

Women athletes in the 200m, from left, Phoebe Laker, Anna Grimaldi, Georgie Bruce, and Jorje Gibbons.

In the 400m Phoebe set new Otago records for girls aged 16-17 for the ninth time.

She also broke the Otago age-18 record (previously held by noted NZ representative Anna Smythe) by a significant margin of 0.42s.

Phoebe is now unbeaten in the 400m over more than two years.

“Her 400m run on Saturday suggests that in calmer conditions there are even better times to come for her this season,” Michael said.

After her strenuous run in the 400m, Phoebe managed the next day to set a second PB (by 0.33s) at the provincial champs in the women’s 200m, in which she ran in 24.91s into a 0.8m/s headwind.

She won ahead of strong opposition that included current NZ Secondary School representative Jorje Gibbons (18) (by 0.33s), and NZ Para-Olympic 200m champion Anna Grimaldi (by more than 1.5s).

The Caledonian crowd were getting accustomed to Phoebe ringing the stadium bell to announce a new PB - a new initiative from Athletics Otago.

In other events, Niamh Townsend was second in the women’s 100m, and fourth overall in the women’s 200m. Georgie Bruce was fifth in this race, second fastest in the 400m (in 61.63s) and second in the women’s discus with a throw of 29.53m.

Ryan Enoka, sole competitor in the men’s U20m hammer, threw a pleasing 36.40m, as well as 29.22m in the discus throw to place second.

In the under-16 category, 13-year-old Ruby Samy from AAC went well, placing fifth in the girls’ 100m with 14.14s, and fourth for a PB in the 200m (28.64s). She also achieved a PB in placing second in the girls’ U16 long jump with a leap of 4.41m. Harriet Grant also achieved a second placing, with 8.84m in the U16 triple jump.

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