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ATHLETICS reporter Kevin Fahey rounds up the best of the action involving Wiltshire athletes last week. Chippenham’s Harry Maxwell won heat seven of the 1500m at the final Bill Whistlecroft open meeting in Yeovil. Indeed, he not only won but slashed almost five seconds off his PB with a time of 4mins 27.80secs to go third in the South West Rankings for U15 boys. Team Bath’s Ciara Galpin, still in the U15 age group, beat all the older athletes in the women’s high jump to record 1.50m, 1cm lower than the PB she set at this track two weeks ago.

WILTSHIRE-based athlete Alice Wilson heads back to Yeovil on Saturday (May 1st) aiming to build upon her solid start to the new season. The 15-year-old Team Bath AC athlete from North Wraxhall, near Bradford-on-Avon, opened her summer campaign at the same Somerset venue last weekend tackling the javelin and the high jump. The latter event was hampered by technical issues largely due to the blustery and cold wind so her height of 1.46m was well below her lifetime best of 1.57m. But if the meeting was less about results than in just getting used to the competitive arena again after six ...