{"id":595560,"date":"2026-05-21T04:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595560\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:25:11","slug":"catmose-college-student-george-smith-has-been-named-as-the-united-kingdoms-leading-javelin-thrower-for-his-under-14-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595560\/","title":{"rendered":"Catmose College student George Smith has been named as the United Kingdom&#8217;s leading javelin thrower for his Under 14 age group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Catmose College student George Smith has seen a fantastic start to the athletics season rewarded with a place at the top of the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has been named as the United Kingdom&#8217;s leading javelin thrower for his Under 14 age group after impressive opening to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Peterborough and Nene Valley Harrier threw an outstanding 48.71 metres in the javelin in his first meeting of the season at the East Anglian Track and Field League.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 372 603\" alt=\"George Smith.\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"1QLRKOMM4XHXOJP2OTRX.jpg\" data-ar=\"0.62\"\/>George Smith.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 362 314\" alt=\"George Smith.\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"A6O1VLESW9TITQIZF06D.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.15\"\/>George Smith.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed up by an impressive 46.88 to take gold at the Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland County Championships where he also took silver in the shot put after a throw of 9.36m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catmose College student George Smith has seen a fantastic start to the athletics season rewarded with a place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49288,59,57,58,50,128889,203550,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-595560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-athletics","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-rutland-sport","tag-stamford-sport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}