Records have continued to tumble in the 2025-26 Gunnedah Athletics season, with some of the athletes beating their own records in the process.
Cooper Galton set a time of 2:23.79 in the U14 boys 800m to eclipse the previous record time of 2:26.29, while Rivah McDonald’s time of 8.07 in the U10 boys 50m was marginally better than the previous record time of 8.09.
Earlier in the season, Rivah registered a long jump distance of 4.35m which was 15cm longer than the previous record in the U10 boys age group.
Several weeks ago, Josh Spinks’s time of 4:50.27 was nearly 30 seconds faster than the previous record time in the U14 boys 1500m.
Since then, Josh broke his own record with a time of 4:47.51.
As reported on November 6, Lacie Kleinschafer set a javelin record and then bettered it while also setting records in shotput and discus in the U17 girls age group.
Since then, Lacie bettered her discus record of 24.71m with 24.75m while also improving her shotput record from 9.8m to 10.78m.
Also in the November 6 edition, it was reported Claire Dowe had set a record height of 1.55m in the U17 girls high jump.
Since then, Claire bettered this record by 3cm while also setting a new benchmark in the 100m hurdles.
Claire’s record time in the 100m hurdles was 15.88 seconds, after the previous record time was 17.44 seconds.
