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| Full Name: |
Joey
Duck
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| Age: |
14 |
| Event: |
100m,
200m |
| Club: |
Milton
Keynes AC |
| Coach: |
Ian
Russell |
Personal Bests:
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60m Indoors
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7.78
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25/26 Jan 2003
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NIA, Birmingham, GBR
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100m Indoors
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200m Indoors
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100m
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11.79
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25 May 2003
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Watford, GBR
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200m
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24.06
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12 July 2003
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Sheffield, GBR
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2002
Joey took
away 2 gold medals from the SEAA Under 20 Championships in Watford on 25/6 May
2002 for the 100m and 200m, after winning both heats.
Joey took the silver in the
Junior Girls' English Schools 200m at the Harvey Haddon Stadium in
Nottingham.
2003
Her record this year was
amazing: 42 starts, 42 victories, including the English Schools Junior Girls
200m and the Norwich Union Under 15 Girls 100m and 200m; and the fastest UK
times of the year in her age group for 100m (11.79), placing her second on the
all-time list to Katharine MERRY, and 200m (24.06), which puts her fourth on the
all-time list.
Joey took the Gold at the
AAA U20 Indoor Champs in Birmingham on 25/26 January 2003.
She ran 7.78 in the final, 0.01 outside uk:a all-time top ten rankings.
Starting
at home on 26th April, for the Southern Women's League it was two wins out of
two recording 12.1 for the 100m and 25.0 for the 200m. In May Joey won both the
100m and 200m in the opening National Young Athletes’ League match at Abingdon
and a week later became the Buckinghamshire County Champion at 100m and
200m.
However, it was at the end
of May in the South of England Championships where Joey blasted the 100m to
record 11.79 in her heat to set the second fastest UK time ever, bettered only
by Katherine Merry in 1989. Although Joey was slightly slower in the final, her
unbeaten trail continued, made all the better by taking the 200m title as well,
recording 24.31 in the Final.
More wins came in June,
including the Northants Schools’ and Schools’ Inter-Counties 200m titles and
the 100m and 200m in the second National Young Athletes’ League match.
Obviously the big occasion is good for Joey because it was at the English
Schools’ Championships in
Sheffield
that she won her heat and semi-final in the 200m, before searing to the
fourth-best-ever time for a UK Under 15 Girl with
24.06 to win yet another title.
By August Joey was slowing a
little but so was the opposition and no one could surpass her at the AAA Under
15 Championships where she added the 100m and 200m titles to the now rapidly
expanding trophy cabinet, with times of 12.07 and 24.74. Just a week later Joey
added the South of England Inter-Counties 100m and 200m titles for good measure,
at an almost pedestrian pace, at least for her) of 12.81 and 25.51. Finally in
September Joey rounded off the season with the last round of the Southern
Women's League with wins in the 100m and 200m in 12.4 and 25.3, helping the team
to stay in the first division.
Joey is ranked number one in
Europe in her age group at 200m and number one in the UK for 100m. Her
lightning-quick times have set her apart from the rest.
Joey recently recorded 11.79
for the 100m, placing her second on the UK all-time under-15 list. She also won
the English Schools (Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield) 200m in 24.06 - the fastest
time recorded for 14 years.
- Joey
Duck ran the second fastest time ever recorded by an U15 girl in the UK when
she broke a long standing record (1974) in the 100m.
She qualifies for the World Junior Championships but is too young at
14 to be picked for the GB Team!
"Third
Fastest 100 metres U20 in Europe this year"
- Joey
Duck ran the second fastest time ever recorded by an U15 girl in the UK when
she broke a long standing record (1974) in the 100m.
She qualifies for the World Junior Championships but is too young at
14 to be picked for the GB Team!
"Fifth
Fastest 200 metres U20 in Europe this year"
- She
was fourth equal in the all-time GB ranking for the 200m.
- Her
relay team came second, in which she represented the Great Britain Juniors
(U20s) 4 x 100m at Bedford International Games.
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Her
incredible year ended with Joey being one of three youngsters from all sports to
be nominated for BBC Young Sports Personality 2003.
"I couldn't believe it
when I made it to the top ten let alone the top three,"
said Joey, who studies at Northampton High School. She has been with Milton
Keynes AC since she was 11 and now trains three times a week, including
attending a talent academy every week at Loughborough University. Her 24.06
seconds 200m pushed Amy Spencer down to fifth in the UK all-time standings.
Club spokesman Ian Russell
said: "We're all
thrilled at the recognition Joey has received – it's recognition for the Club
as well. Joey is very focused and has always had remarkable speed."
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Over the past year
14-year-old Joey Duck has proved she's certainly not out of her depth when it
comes to 100m and 200m sprints. In fact, over these distances, she's the fastest
UK runner for her age with best times of 11.79 and 24.06 on the stopwatch.
Joey has been
undefeated for 42 races winning at numerous competitions including the AAA
Under 15 Championships, the Southern Women's League and the National Young
Athletes League.
This success lead to
Joey being one of 10 youngsters nominated for BBC Young Sports Personality
2003.
"I couldn't
believe it when I made it to the top 10 let alone the top three,"
said Joey, who attends Northampton High School.
Joey started training
with Milton Keynes Athletic Club when she was 11 and now trained three
times a week, including attending a talent academy every week in
Loughborough.
The award is now in
its third year and previous winners have gone on to become big names in
the sporting world. Running star Amy Spencer received the title in 2001
and last year was the turn of England footballer Wayne Rooney.
Milton Keynes
Athletics Club spokesman, Ian Russell said, "We're all thrilled at
the recognition Joey has received - it's recognition for the Club as well.
"Joey is very focused, she's always had remarkable speed and there's
a strong possibility that she'll be competing at the next Olympic
Games."
Judges have now
whittled the list of contenders down to three. Along with Joey, the other
nominees are Welsh motorcyclist Chaz Davies,16, who became the youngest
ever Grand Prix entrant in 2002 and swimmer Kate Haywood, also 16, with
the fastest English 100m breaststroke this year.
The winner will be
announced on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2003 programme on BBC1
at 8.00pm on Sunday 14th December. |
2004
1st Feb - Joey (currently) tops the U17 girls indoor rankings
2004 with 24.93 secs for 200m, and lies in second for the 60m with 7.76 behind Joscelynn
Hopeson.
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the Under 20 women's indoor track and field rankings for 2004 Joey Duck
was 4th in the 60m with 7.62 and 2nd in the 200m with 24.38 |
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English
Schools
Joey
took the Intermediate Girls' 200m ahead of Hampshire's Fern Parker in 23.80secs,
after winning both her heat and semi-final convincingly, running 3 national
standard times.
Joey Duck was the star turn
of the meeting when she strode away with ease to win the Inter Girls 200m. The
anticipated clash between her and Lucy Sargent – the top two sprinters in the
age group nationally – failed to materialise when the Essex girl pulled out
after being selected for the Great Britain team for this week's World Junior
Championships in Italy.
However, the way Duck turned on the style it would have warranted an exceptional
performance to stop her securing her second English Schools title.
She went through the rounds with ease, clocking 24.41 in her heat and 24.38 in
her semi before destroying the opposition with a stunning new personal best and
legal time of 23.80.
Duck's winning time knocked nearly three-tenths-of-a-second from her previous
best – set when winning the Junior title last year – and was less than
two-tenths away from Vernicha James' meeting record from 2000.
The delighted Northampton High School student said: "I
love competing in the English Schools and look forward to it every year. It's
very special to me. It would have been nice to join Lucy in the Worlds but I'm
not too disappointed because I knew I had the Schools to look forward to."
Duck will now represent England in the Home Counties Schools International in
Chelmsford on Saturday.
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The
British Schools International took place at Melbourne Park Athletics Centre,
Chelmsford on Saturday 17 July, in cold and wet conditions.
Joey Duck, Northamptonshire won the 200m from
Emily Shaw, dipping under 24 seconds, to record 23.99 seconds. Duck's time
in the 200m was a new Championship Record.
The
opening day of the Norwich Union World Junior Trials and AAA Under 20 and Under
23 Championships at the Bedford International Stadium on Saturday 26 June.
Under
20 Women’s 100m:
The
latest battle of the country’s leading Under 17s was won by Joey Duck (Milton
Keynes AC), who avenged the defeat inflicted on her at the South of England AA
Under 20 Championships by Lucy Sargent (Havering Mayesbrook). Just
nine-hundredths of a second separated them after a stride for stride battle into
a strong head wind. Both have already beaten the World Indoors qualifying
standard of 11.85 seconds.
Final
(wind: -3.1): 1 Joey Duck (Milton Keynes AC) 12.06; 2 Lucy Sargent (Havering
Mayesbrook) 12.17
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OCS Young Sportsperson of the Year
Over 100m and 200m, Joey is already
breaking records in her age group and recently won Gold at the AAA’s in
the Under 20’s 100m event. Joey is returning from the Junior
Commonwealth Games on 6th December, after which her next aim is to go to
the World Youth Games in Morocco. Travelling to training facilities and
abroad for warm weather training means that Joey will be spending the
sponsorship money wisely. Joey enjoys training (and the social life that
it brings with it) as much as competing. |
| JOEY
MEDALS IN OZ
On
the track, Joey Duck made it onto the podium with third place in the 200m
in a time of 24.87 seconds
at the
Commonwealth Youth Games in Australia. |
2005
| 16-year-old
Joey Duck (Milton Keynes AC) won the Bucks Under 17 200m title in 24.4 –
within a fifth of a second of the qualifying time for both the European
Junior Championships and the World Youth Games – despite the head wind
measuring –2.7. |
| South
of England Junior Championships, Portsmouth
The wind rose to +2.2)
for the Under 17 Women’s 100m final, won by Lucy Sargent (Havering
Mayesbrook) in 11.90 from Joey Duck (Milton Keynes), who clocked
11.94.
In their 200m (wind: over
the limit) Duck defeated Sargent by 23.91 seconds to 24.00, further
whetting the appetite for the definitive confrontations at the Norwich
Union AAA Under 20 Championships at Bedford on 2 and 3 July. |
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World Youth
Championships - 200m
Joey
Duck
qualifyied as a fastest loser with 24.33 in heat 7, but was unable
to make the final when she finished 5th in her semi in 24.14.
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2006
| Home
Countries battle in Cardiff
In the Under 20s
competition, England – thanks to another superb win by Gerald Phiri and
a sprint double for Joey Duck - scored a perfect ton to take the trophy
with the International Select team second, Ireland third and Wales fourth.
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| South
of England Championships
Pre-race: In
the women's sprints, Joey Duck (Marshall Milton Keynes), Lucy
Sargent (Havering Mayesbrook) and Carley Wenham
(Crawley) are amongst the contenders.
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2007
| European
Junior Championships
Women’s 200m first round
Joey
Duck (Marshall Milton Keynes AC), now being coached by former Commonwealth
champion Mike McFarlane, eased through to automatic qualification for the
semi-final, finishing third in her heat in 24.31 seconds.
She
philosophised: “My
first race is always terrible. I only scraped through the first round at
the Trials. The bend was all right this time, which makes a change, but I
lost my legs in the last 50.”
Women’s
200m semi-finals
Joey
Duck (Marshall Milton Keynes AC), third in her first round heat in 23.41
seconds, was elminated, fifth in the second semi-final (wind: +1.3) in
24.42 seconds. Yelizaveta Bryzhina (Ukraine) won in a PB of 23.47 ahead of
yesterday’s 100m silver medallist Inna Eftimova (Bulgaria), who clocked
23.83.
“I’m
gutted,” said Duck,
who trained in the group coached by Mike Leonard until May. “If
Craig [Pickering] can do it, so should I. It was my fault. I didn’t
drive hard enough. Next year’s my year – the World Juniors. I’ll be
ready for that!” |
 
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