January 15/16: Southern Indoor title for D’mitri Varlack

Three MMK athletes competed in the South of England U13/15/17 Indoor Championships at Lee Valley – all English Schools medallists at U15 in the summer! All were moving up to the Under 17 age group.

Pride of place goes to D’mitri Varlack, whose first round jump in the long jump of 6.68m, shattered his personal best by more than 20cms. No one else got within 30cms of this leap apart from D’mitri, whose fifth round jump was measured at 6.63m.

In the same competition, Daniel Ayodele, the English Schools Champion, competing indoors for the first time, could manage only 6.22m for fifth place, below his best of 6.62m.

Ayo Fatoki, silver medallist at the ESAA Championships, entered the M17 60m – his first indoor competition. In the heats he qualified third in 7.35 seconds. He improved to 7.29 seconds for fourth place in the semi-final, but missed qualification for the final by 0.01 seconds.

Full results from Lee Valley