ATHLETES in Wimborne brought home a hatful of medals from the South West Athletics Championships held at the Exeter Arena on July 20.

Standout performances from Wimborne Athletic Club athletes came from Mila Desborough, who set a new championship best performance in the under-15 girls javelin with a personal best and national lead distance of 45.97m.

Lani Moore is also at number one in the UK in the under-13 hurdles and won both that event in 11.70 and the high jump with 1m 40.

Kayla Robbins secured a new personal best of 1.63m, extinguished the previous eighteen-year-old club record and won bronze in the under-15 long jump (4.84 m).

There were also gold medals for Lila Baines (4 m 59) in the under-13 long jump and Maisie Robbins (8 m 26) in the shot.

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Maisie also won bronze in the javelin with 22m 30.

Elliott Trickey got close to his personal best with a 12.36 m under-15 winning triple jump.

Ava Elliott-Smith won silver in the under-15 100 (12.60) and 200 (26.28). Rosie Gollings was second in the long jump, beating Kayla by 2 cm, and also had a silver in the 300 metres in 42.76.

Bronze medals went to Tom Faulkner in the under-13 800 metres 2,33,11 and Zac Johnson threw 7m43 in the shot.

Tilly Pretty won bronze in the shot put (7.49 m) and discus (15.82 m), and Ren Turner 28.38 m in the javelin in a very good day for the under-13s.