17 Next Week, One More Chance To Get Record

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31224, 23 November 1966, Page 23

17 Next Week, One More Chance To Get Record

The New Zealand women's javelin champion and recordholder, Miss S. A. Flynn (Technical), will have her last competition in the under-17 grade in the inter-club track and field meeting at Rugby Park on Saturday. She turns 17 next week.

It will be her last opportunity to regain the shot put record, now held by Miss B, Poulsen (Technical), at 43ft 6+in, and extend her already formidable record distance of 134 ft 4lin in the javelin. The Technical under-17 4 x 110 yards relay team, in which Miss Flynn runs the first leg, will also be making its final attempt in its present form to lower the Canterbury record of 50.3 sec it set last Saturday. The team, consisting of Misses Flynn, C. Green, L. Johns and A. Demouth, has lowered the record three times this season. If conditions are favourable on the last attempt, it could get below the senior record for the event of 49.65ec. Last Saturday, Miss Flynn showed she was approaching top form when she threw the discus to a new record distance of 126 ft 3in, an improvement of 3ft 6in on her old record set last month. Her biggest challenge on Saturday will undoubtedly be the shot record. She took the record from Miss Poulsen in

1965 with a throw of 42ft 9}in, increased it to 42ft Ilin in January this year, but lost it again to Miss Poulsen towards the end of the season. The javelin is Miss Flynn’s specialist event Her New Zealand women’s record is 155 ft 9ins and so the chances of her breaking the under-17 record on Saturday are fairly good, although it is still early in the season.