Success for youngsters at European Junior Championships
University of Bath student Jack Meredith won gold medal in the 110m hurdles at the European Junior Championships, with training partner Andrew Pozzi, taking silver.
Meredith, a Sports Performance student coached by UK Athletics National Events Coach for Hurdles Malcolm Arnold, won in a time of 13.50 in Tallinn, Estonia. It was Meredith’s third attempt at the title. “Now that I’ve won this I’m just over the moon,” he said.
His team-mate, Andrew Pozzi, also coached by Malcolm Arnold, finished just 0.07 seconds behind him to take silver. When commenting on his team-mate’s performance, he said “He deserves it today, he was just better.”
Megan Southwart, Sports Performance student at the University of Bath, also competed at the meeting, finishing seventh in heat 2 of the 400m hurdles with a time of 59.87.
By Ollie Barnes
