Annual competition on Sunday also sees Katarina Johnson-Thompson in action
Laughborough Sport Scholar Molly Palmer was at the top of the jumps of the ladies in Laughing International Athletics (LIA) in an event in which Jazmin Sawyers made a long -awaited comeback due to an injury.
Palmer, 21, jumped excellent to register 6.67 m (2.4 million) as Sawyers, the European Indoor Champion 2023, remembered 6.53 million (0.0) in her first competition since last year tore an Achilles.
Wales International Abigail Pawlett finished third in a staff best 6.17 m (1.7 m).
“Returning competing feels so much fun, it’s so great,” Sawyers told Laughborough Sport. “It’s nice to still feel. The goal of today was to come back to hit the 6.50m marker. I felt that I had 6.60 m in the tank, but that wasn’t.
“If I ignored that I had been out for 18 months, it would be a solid version. Hat is finished for Molly … that was incredible.”
Elsewhere, on another day of first -class athletics on campus, the capacity audience was treated to even more sporty drama that is now synonymous with Lia.
In the 100m hordes of the ladies, Dani Hales applied the world champion Hepthlon Katarina Johnson-Thompson to win in 13.51 (2.2). Johnson-Thompson clocked 13.57 in the first outdoor game Sind Sinding Olympic Hepthlon Silver in Paris last summer.
Pawlett, however, went faster in the 100m Hordenrace match, but 13 seconds breaking with 12.97 (0.5).
Later in the day, former Laughborough -student Bekah Walton Domadatd de Ladies Javelin to win with a distance of 59.38m.
Jamaic International and triple world medal winner Kimberly Williams also claimed the first place in the triple jump of the ladies with 13.32m.
Renee Regis won the ladies 100 meters in a PB of 11.32 (0.3).
Scott Lincoln threw an excellent 21.06m to win the men’s shot.
Representative Wales, Olivia Breen showed a good shape to win the ladies for long jump with 4.84 m. The Double Paralympic Games medal winner Outrupe GB Junior Down’s 4.62m and Molly Kingsbury of England 3.98 m.
New -Zeelander Imogen Ayris, who won Commonwealth Bronze in Birmingham in 2022, was at the top of the pole -high jumping of the women with a height of 4.45 m.
Back on the circuit, Thomas Young – another Laughborough Sport Scholar – Break at home in the men for 100m in 11.19 seconds.
Full results here.
