Andover Athlete Holly Mills jumps 6.11m as Andover Athletic Club pick up 24 medals at the Hampshire County Track and Field Championships

The multi-talented athlete took home three medals in the under-17 age group with two golds and one silver medal from her three competitions.

Mills, who is currently ranked first in the UK at 80m hurdles, cruised through to the final at the County Championships with a time of 11.80s.

The teen then destroyed the final line-up, posting a time of 11.52s, just outside her personal best (PB).

Mills picked up her only silver of the day in the 200m sprint, finishing top in her heat with a time of 25.40s before narrowly finishing second to Mair Edwards in the final, despite an improved time.

However, it was in the long jump where she was most triumphant, taking the gold with a record breaking 6.11m jump – beating the previous championship best which was set back in 1980.

Andover’s Tillie McClutchie, the only under-13 girl from the club, also produced some fine performances to pick up a silver medal in the high jump with a new PB of 1.35m, plus a fourth place in the long jump with another PB of 4.39m.

Tillie also reached the semi-final of the 200m, where she finished just outside her PB with a time of 30.77s and narrowly missed out on a place in the final of the 70m hurdles with a time of 13.13s.

In the under-15 age group Molly Wood was in sprints action in both the 100m and 200m and progressed to the semi-final of the latter, where she produced a PB time of 28.02s, but fell shy of making the final.

Alisha Bramley was competing in her first championships and a solid performance in the 100m competition took her through to the semi-final.

Victoria also competed in the 75 metre hurdle where she ran a time of 13.56s while Abbie Mills equalled her PB in the high jump with a leap of 1.30 meters.

Jasmine McClutchie was in action in the long jump and she produced a PB jump of 5.14 metres to take the silver medal while she clocked a PB time of 12.81s in the 100 metres.

McClutchie was joined in that final by Elizabeth Butler-Clack who also ran a PB of 12.67s in the heats before snatching bronze in a time of 12.75s while also picking up a silver medal in the discus.

Holly Mills’s sprint partner Darcie Henderson’s 26.07s finished a good day with a bronze medal in the 200 metres while narrowly missing out on podium finishes in the 300 metre and high jump events.

Andover’s impressive championship continued in the under-20 woman’s category where Annie Brookes won her thirds triple jump title with a best of 10.82m.

Evie Wilcox was also in fine action in the throws events where she picked up gold medals in the shot with 9.24 metres and discus with 39.96 metres.

She also grabbed a silver in the hammer with a PB of 37.13 metres.

Fewer male athletes were in action for Andover but in the under- 15 age group Tom Hewson produced a great performance to win gold in the javelin.

The youngster added over six metres to his PB with a throw of 49.26 metres – a distance which ranks him number one in the UK in his age group.

In the under-20 men’s Matt Chant was in action in the 100m where he won his heat in 11.1s and then took silver in a very fast final with a time of 11.07s.

Keiran Nicholls was in action in the field events and he picked up three bronze medals with a PB leap of 6.19 metres in the long jump, threw 34.49 metres in the discus and finished with a height of 3.00 metres in the pole vault.

Dave Awde was in action in the senior men’s category where he picked up a bronze medal in the 400 metre hurdle, while James Folkes reached the final of the 100 metres, running a time of 11.22s in the heats and 11.11s in the final.

There, she ran just outside her PB in 14.19s with Victoria Butler- Clack just behind her with a PB time of 14.25 in the heats.