NATIONAL champion Diana Adegoke is heading back to Birmingham for the UK final of the Sportshall Athletics Championships in April.

Broadstairs girl Adegoke, who won gold last year, was one of seven Thanet Athletics Club members representing Kent in the South-East Regional Championships at Burgess Hill on Sunday.

They brought home two golds, one silver and a bronze medal as Kent secured an exciting and narrow victory over Surrey to qualify for the UK final as South East champions.

Adegoke won the standing long jump with 2.54m and finished 10th in the four-lap race in 55.0s and 11th in the speed bounce with 79.

And with Rhiannon Wallwork (Invicta East Kent AC) and Joanna Okusanya (Bexley AC) the two top points scorers overall, Renique Joseph (Bexley AC) eighth and Diana 10th, Kent had four girls in the top 10 and it was their consistency that took them through to the UK final.

Adam Jacques won gold for Kent in the U13 Boys shot with a throw of 10.23m, Leon King finished 10th in the standing long jump with 2.11m and Kent's boys finished sixth overall.

The 11 Kent U13 Girls included four from Thanet. Chantelle Bailey won silver in the standing long jump with 2.25m and placed seventh in the two-lap race in 27.0s.

Alice Fox won bronze in the two-lap race in 25.2s and placed eighth in the shot with 8.55m, in a competition where the two top girls threw further than the winning boy.

Maddy Johnson set a new personal best of 1.35m in the high jump for fifth place while Tanya Bailey placed ninth in the shot with 8.08m. Kent's U13 Girls finished fifth overall.

Results:

U13 Girls – 1st Hampshire 578 points, 2nd Surrey 550, 3rd Berkshire 532, 4th Sussex 490, 5th Kent 480, 6th Oxfordshire 456, 7th Buckinghamshire 130

U13 Boys – 1st Hampshire 603, 2nd Surrey 572, 3rd Oxfordshire 551, 4th Berkshire 494, 5th Sussex 458, 6th Kent 422, 7th Buckinghamshire 60

U15 Girls – 1st Kent 595, 2nd Surrey 575, 3rd Berkshire 544, 4th Hampshire 492, 5th Oxfordshire 448, 6th Sussex 413, 7th Buckinghamshire 333

U15 Boys – 1st Surrey 650, 2nd Berkshire 554, 3rd Sussex 534, 4th Buckinghamshire 491, 5th Surrey 421, 6th Kent 415, 7th Hampshire 310

Full individual results are available online.

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