National Title for Joel McFarlane
Posted by on 10 August 2015
Bedford International Stadium was the venue for the England Athletics Combined Events Championship for under 15 & 17. For the U15's this is an Octathlon event, which is held over two days of competition. Joel lead from the very first event and never relinguished it over the next seven events. His first day consisted of 100m; high jump; 400m and javelin all of which he won and it meant that Joel had a lead of 408 points by the end of Saturday. Sunday was another good day for Joel with his discus and pole vault matching his previous days javelin as the best performance by any Scottish athlete this season. With these personal bests Joel was able to stretch his lead and with a solid 80m hurdles and with the best performance in the last event, the 1000m, Joel was able to accumulate enough points for a new British Championship record of 4364 points, 563pts ahead of second place and secure the Gold medal.
Joel has now won all four Scottish and English indoor and outdoor combined events titles this year.
