An Australian U16 record in the 200m hurdles to Chloe Jamieson and another world junior qualifier to sprinter Jake Hammond were the highlights of the final day of the NSW All Schools Championships.

Jamieson, from Tathra on the south coast of NSW, twice bettered the national record of 27.91 held by former world youth and world junior representative Jess Gulli. In the heats Jamieson stopped the clock at 27.67 seconds (-0.7 m/s) before bettering the time in the final with a run of 27.54 seconds (-0.9 m/s).

Coached by Canberra's Matt Beckenham, with her day to day training overseen by her father Kel, Jamieson also took out the 90m hurdles in a time of 12.73 seconds (+0.1 m/s). However, come the Australian All Schools in Hobart in December, the 15 year old plans to step up an age group and a distance and contest the under 17 400m hurdles.

"She will be up an age group but Chloe has already shown me that she has some wonderful potential in the 400m Hurdles and I really think she has the potential to be one of the Australia?s top hurdlers in years to come," said Beckenham, referring to her debut run of 62.67 seconds last month in Canberra.

Jake Hammond lit up the track in the 19 years boys 200m, clocking his second world junior qualifier and the fastest time of the domestic season with a personal best of 21.07 seconds (+0.4 m/s). The time was only a tenth of a second outside of the 12 year meet record held by Matt Shirvington and capped a sensational meet for the 18 year old, who clocked 10.61 seconds yesterday in the 100m.

Hammond's club mate at Illawong Athletics Club, Ella Nelson, was denied a world junior qualifier herself a couple of races later, with a slightly illegal tailwind of 2.1 m/s rendering her run of 24.11 seconds in the heats of the 15 years race void for qualifying purposes. However, it did significantly improve the meet record held by Karlie Morton, as meet records exist independent of wind conditions. In the final Nelson could not improve on her heat run, equaling the previous record with a run of 24.56 seconds (+0.0 m/s).

In the quest to record the world junior qualifier of 24.20 seconds Nelson will have plenty of competition, not just from around Australia but from within her own state: Karlie Morton took out the 16 years age group in 24.33 seconds (+0.2 m/s) whilst the runner up in the 100m, Larissa Pasternatsky, claimed gold in the 19 years race with 24.39 seconds (+0.2 m/s).

In the 15 years girls 800m Christie Pearson clocked the fastest time of the domestic season to date, clocking 2:09.42 to beat Jenny Blundell by two seconds. Other notable results were meet records by Ben Talakai, improving Australian record holder Benn Harradine's mark by over two metres with 57.13m (1.5 kg discus); Lisa Celi in the 16 years 400m hurdles, clocking 61.97 seconds to improve world junior representative Brittney McGlone's record by almost two seconds; and Emily Crutcher, clearing 1.76m in the 15 years high jump to equal the meet record held by former world youth representative Mia Mackinnon.

Photo finish image courtesy of Athletics NSW

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