Two local throwing athletes turned in great performances during the Sherwood Park Track Classic track and field meet.
Haylin Eling placed third in javelin on July 20 with a season best throw of 30.01metres (m). That's after she had to take some time off from javelin throwing due to injury.
She placed fourth in the hammer throw.
On Sunday, July 21, Eling threw the discus 34.85 m to take second, beating her previous personal best (PB) by more than three metres.
She placed third in shotput.
"No new PB, but a solid toss," her coach Rachel Andres said in an email to the Albertan.
Andres said she too did well in that meet.
She threw a new PB of 58.44 m in discus that also reset the provincial record.
"That toss will move me up a few more places in my world rankings to number 58 or 59 and puts me within a half metre of the No. 1 spot in Canada," she wrote.
This past weekend, Andres was competing in the Nationals in Montreal.
"I’m feeling confident and hoping to break a 40-year-old national record that stands at 59.65 m," she wrote.
Earlier this year Andres worked hard for a shot at making the Canadian Pan Am Games team and right up until last month it looked like she could make it. Unfortunately, that didn't pan out. Those games take place July 26 - Aug. 11 in Lima, Peru.
However, Andres has kept up her Pan Am Games training.
"My training program the whole year has been geared towards the Pan Ams date, and my throwing recently has been showing the progress heading in that direction," she wrote.
"I’ve been going up in distances while my competition who is No. 1 has fallen off a couple metres recently," so that's given her hope she could win, she noted.
