Seven golden medals on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games

Crew England secured a record-breaking medal haul in athletics occasions on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, bagging seven golds together with 15 silver and 12 bronze. Let’s look again on the story of an incredible medal haul from our Crew England athletes

Johnboy Smith (coach: Christine Parsloe; membership: Sutton & District) secured his place within the historical past books as he claimed Crew England’s first ever wheelchair marathon title. David Weir (Jenny Archer; Weir Archer Academy) was on the right track to clinch first spot earlier than a merciless puncture within the last 10k gave Smith an opportunity to capitalise and take Crew England’s first athletics gold of the Video games.

Emmanuel Oyinbo-Coker (Coral Nourrice, Newham and Essex  Beagles / Loughborough College students) set the tone for Crew England athletes on the primary evening on the observe by bulldozing his method to a surprising gold within the males’s T45-47 100m. Oyinbo-Coker opened an enormous lead straight out of the blocks to safe gold and his first sub-11 second end. The Personal Best Foundation ambassador mentioned:

“It went completely to plan. To be trustworthy it was virtually like a dream.”

Oyinbo-Coker’s success was adopted minutes later as co-captain Hannah Cockroft (Jennifer Banks, Leeds Metropolis AC) set a Video games report within the T33-34 100m with 16.84, forward of Kare Adenegan (Job King, Coventry Godiva Harriers) who took the silver in 17.79.

The Liverpool Harriers athlete (coach: Aston Moore) fought again from just a few damage plagued years to say an emotional gold within the heptathlon and defend her title from the 2018 video games. The funetics ambassador mentioned:

“It feels unbelievable to do this in entrance of my house crowd. It was the gang who received me by the competitors, particularly the 800m when the noise was so loud.”

Nick Miller (coach: Tore Gustafsson, membership: Border Harriers) threw an enormous 76.43m within the hammer – a distance which has solely been overwhelmed twice within the historical past of the Commonwealth Video games – to defend his gold medal from the Gold Coast in 2018.

A blistering tempo was set within the males’s T53/54 1500m with Nathan Maguire (Steven Hoskins, Kirkby AC) and Daniel Sidbury (coach: Christine Parsloe, membership: Sutton and District AC) establishing an exciting end. Ultimately Maguire took the win with 3:11.83, narrowly edging out Sidbury in 3:12.15.

Crew England introduced house gold within the 4x100m in spectacular style on the penultimate day of athletics. Jona Efoloko (Clarence Callender, Sale Harriers Manchester), Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills, Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers), Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (Ryan Freckleton, Newham and Essex Beagles) and Ojie Edoburun (Stuart McMillan, Shaftesbury Barnet) fought off a powerful Trinidad & Tobago and Nigeria to safe gold in entrance of a packed Alexander Stadium.

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