Armwood junior, Jake Turner, had two strong races at the Wharton Wildcat Invitational this past weekend and followed them up with a repeat Gasparilla 8k win.
In the 1600m, Turner battled it out with Wharton standout, Nehemiah Rivers. Rivers took the win in a time of 4:19.64 with Turner following close behind in 4:20.37.
Turner followed up his new PR with a fifth place 800m personal record in 2:03.14.
| BOYS 800 METER RUN FINALS | ALL RESULTS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLACE | ATHLETE | TEAM | RESULT | WIND | H# | |||||
| 1 | Dominic Acosta | 11 | Newsome HS | 2:00.17 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | Ernesto Velasquez | 12 | Chamberlain HS | 2:00.70 | 1 | |||||
| 3 | Reed Legg | 11 | Citrus Park Christian School | 2:00.92 | 1 | |||||
| 4 | Darius Rainey | 9 | Hillsborough HS | 2:02.20 | 1 | |||||
| 5 | Jake Turner | 11 | Armwood HS | 2:03.14 | 1 | |||||
| 6 | Anthony Dimarco | 11 | Wiregrass Ranch HS | 2:03.44 | 1 | |||||
| 7 | Daniel Barron | 11 | Newsome HS | 2:04.46 | 1 | |||||
| 8 | Nehemiah Rivers | 12 | Wharton HS | 2:05.68 | ||||||
After a strong showing on Saturday, Turner ended his personal record weekend with a consecutive Gasparilla 8k win on Sunday in a time of 27:06.
Turner told the Tampa Times that this was a tempo effort for him and that he has goals to run a sub 4:10 1600m and sub nine-minute 3200m before graduating in 2020.
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