Lucy Chadwick has put down her marker for the forthcoming track and field season with a sensational performance at East Lancashire’s first outdoor meet of the summer.

Competing on her home ground at Seedhill, the U15 shot putter set a Grade 1 standard of 10.80 metres to place her fourth in the Power of 10 National Rankings list, with the furthest outdoor putt in the country so far.

Although it is clearly early days yet, it was a new Pendle record and it gave the club a boost as they hosted Sunday’s Pendle Winter Warmer meeting.

The day was bright and sunny, if a bit nippy and there was a more local feel than usual with rival meetings being held at Wigan, Carlisle and Spenborough. That certainly would have helped ease the nerves of some of the younger competitors in the U10 and U11 classes taking part in their first proper fixture.

The pressure didn’t affect Jake Hurlstone though who won all three of his events for Pendle in the U10 class – the 75m, 150m and 600m.

The club made a clean sweep in the girls’ 75m sprints with Maddison Jackson, Neve Barnes and Jane Bowler in the U10s, U11s and U13s, while Rhea Jackson set a grade three 14.4 seconds as she won the U13s 100m adding a G4 30.6 seconds for success in the 200m.

Hyndburn Athletic Club were much in evidence in the long jump, by far the most popular event of the day, with 43 athletes competing across the full range of age groups. Jack Mulligan and Rebecca Dewhurst were the U10 winners as Brooklyn Cross took the honours for the U11 boys.

There was less demand for the high jump where there were only three takers, the highlight being a G3 clearance of 1.46m by Pendle’s Helena Leathley in the U15s.

Burnley’s Danny Eckersley is already showing impressive form winning the senior men’s 300m hurdles in 40.5 seconds and making second in the 400m flat.

All rounder James Blackburn took the U17s 100m and 200m double with a G4 standard in the longer race and his Pendle club mate Amy Moran registered a G3 standard in the U13 girls’ 800m although was beaten into second.

However, it was the Pendle throwers’ day with Charlotte Beech setting a G2 9.92m in the U17 shot putt after Lucy Chadwick had set the tone in the first event of the day.

The U15 managed a G2 distance of 34.32m.