WYNDHAM Track and Field club athlete Chris Mitrevski showed his improved sprinting form this season when he won silver in the 100m and bronze in the 200m at the Victorian State Under-age titles at Lakeside.
The 18-year-old, who ran in the Under-20 age division, clocked 10.98 seconds for the 100, the second time he has gone under the 11 second mark this season and a personal best.
Mitrevski then shook off tiredness and sped over the furlong in 22.58 – a slightly slower time than his heat.
In between those runs he summoned the energy to claim silver in the Under-20 men’s long jump with a season best leap of 7.32m. Six of his seven jumps were over seven metres – his ultimate goal for the 2013-14 season. He also finished 12cm ahead of the bronze medal winner.
Mitrevski’s success at the State Titles follows his gold medal at the Victorian Country Championships at Ballarat in January in the 200m and his silver medal in the 100m where he missed top spot by the width of his singlet. He also won the long jump.
“Chris, who has been a member of Wyndham Track and Field since its inception in December 2012 has always specialised in the horizontal jumps, but growth over the last 18 months has seen him become a top rated young sprinter,” the club’s competition manager, Peter Gavaghan, said.
“He has been putting in the hard yards at training at the Hoppers Lane track – training there three times a week with visits to the gym on three other occasions. Those efforts, plus obviously listening and taking in what coach Errol Hart has been saying, has led to his success.”
In other club results, Dana Delaney was sixth in the Under-18 women’s long jump with a leap of just over five metres to follow her bronze medal at the Country Championships.
“All our athletes – Ravee Pathya, Darius Lewis, Tom Oski and Rudi Chatterjee – performed above expectations,” Gavaghan said.
“Some of them, who have only half a season of athletics or training behind them, were competing in events they had not competed in before yet acquitted themselves well,” he said.“This is the attitude Wyndham fosters and it augurs well for the club’s future.”
