Adam beats coach to title

Tuesday 22 February 2011

Cardiff's Adam Bitchell (pictured) improved his personal best by over 11 seconds to win the British Universities 3000m indoor title in Sheffield last weekend in a time of 8:05.16, pushing his coach James Thie into third place. James' time was 8:06.68.

Rhiannon Yates took the 60m title in 7.65sec and Jessica Abrahams won the pole vault with a clearance of 3.90m.

In Birmingham, Gareth Hopkins set a new personal best 400m time of 48.99sec.

Also in Birmingham, at the Midland Counties Open indoor meeting on Sunday 21st, Gareth won the 200m race 2 in 21.71, with Glyn Hawkes 2nd in 22.56. Glyn Hawkes took first place ahead of Gareth in the 400m race 2 in 48.28.

Phil Doorgachun had placed second in the 200m race 1 in 21.91 and Daniel Dell took the 400m race 4 in 51.01.