Now Wade strikes silver in the AAAs

TARRING'S TORNADO is now charging across the globe towards China. Sprinter Wade Bennett-Jackson has qualified for the British team to contest the World Junior Championships in Beijing on August 15-20.

By The Newsroom

Published 27th Jul 2006, 11:32 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 00:48 BST

He did so with his first 100metres medal in a AAAs championship when he took silver in the Under-20s at Bedford in the trials for Beijing.

This follows the 19-year-old Belgrave Harrier's four previous fifth places in the previous four years at the AAAs and further substantiates the feeling that Worthing's youth are ready to help lead the nation's young athletes. He has already been the 2003 European Youth 100m and 200m champion.

Earlier this month, East Worthing scorcher Funmi Sobodu won the World Schools Under-17 100 metres title in Thessaloniki. Fellow Worthing Harriers club athletes Kayley Alcorn became English Schools Under-17 triple jump champion, at which championships Sobodu won the 100 metres bronze, and Kelly Denyer took bronze in the Under-17 300 metres.

For full report, see this week's Worthing Herald.

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