British Indoor Athletics Championships: Jeremiah Azu retains males’s 60m title in Birmingham

Jeremiah Azu retained his British indoor males’s 60m title by simply 0.06 seconds on the British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham.

Azu matched his private greatest time of 6.56 and that was simply sufficient to prime the rostrum forward of John Otugade and Andrew Robertson, with simply 0.22 separating the entire eight-man discipline,

“It is superb. I do not suppose phrases can describe it,” mentioned Azu.

“I really like what I do entertaining individuals in the best manner. You are taking one step flawed you might be out the race. I am a winner at coronary heart and what my coronary heart needed, it received.”

Bianca Williams ran a private greatest time of seven.19 to win the ladies’s 60m title for the primary time.

“I’ve had so many ups and downs in my journey and I really feel like I am on an incredible path now and over the moon,” she mentioned.

“It is so good to be primary, I am so glad. I do know I am in nice form and I can not look forward to the European Championships.”

Abigail Pawlett ran a private greatest 8.09 to win the ladies’s 60m hurdles, simply 0.02 forward of Emma Nwofor, with Marli Jessop third.

Daniel Goriola, bronze medallist in 2024, gained the boys’s occasion forward of Iola Grant and William Ritchie-Moulin.

Within the para 60m, Zac Shaw gained the boys’s race and Sophie Hahn the ladies’s.

The motion was delayed by round 90 minutes at first of the day after the Utilita Area was evacuated due to a fireplace in a close-by flat.

Consideration will now flip to the European Indoor Championships, which is able to happen in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands from 6 to 9 March.

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