Hemmings is latest from Burton club in England youth pool

HENRY Hemmings has become the seventh Burton Athletic Club member to be picked for the England Athletics Youth Talent Programme in the last four years.

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The programme is open to athletes in education who are in the first year of the sixth form.

Selection is based on rankings and performance in championships.

This year, Hemmings was fourth in the 800m at the English Schools’ Championship and won silver in the England Under-17 championships.

He is ranked 14th in his age group in the event with a best of 1.53.81, a club record.

And all this has happened within 16 months of him running his first race, which he won in 2.24 at Shobnall, his fast finish catching the eye of Burton's endurance coach, Graham Lamb.