I wanted to just be a short sprinter, but he said 'just give it a go'. 'My grandad was one of the main reasons why I got into 400m hurdles and 400m. I played Saturday and Sunday league football, but the Sunday club was folding so we thought it would be a good idea to try athletics.

That's where I started to find my speed and thought I could be decent at it. That was probably one of the things, I got thrown into the 800m and did the 100m once or twice. 'I did some athletics a couple of times for the school in Year 8 and Year 7. Football was my primary focus but that started to dwindle, so I thought I'd give athletics a shot as I've always been decently quick. He said: ' I was quite late into running, it was probably around year 9. Sam told the ECHO about how he got into athletics and his ambitions for the future.

Now, having moved into the under-20 category, he was selected for Great Britain to compete in the Dynamic New Athletics (DNA) U20 Indoor Match in Madrid in February and was part of a victorious British 4X400m relay team. His crowning moment came at the SIAB Schools International in Belfast in July, where he set a new under-17 British record in the 400m hurdles with a time of 51:55.Īcross an outstanding 2022 outdoor season, he won 15 out of 15 400m hurdles competitions, setting club, regional, championship and national records along the way.

READ MORE: DHL workers at Jaguar Land Rover's Halewood factory agree new pay deal Last season, he became the country's top ranked runner in both disciplines at under-17 level. Now, on the back of an unbeaten 2022 season, the Neston High School pupil has competed for Great Britain and wants to run against the best.Ī member of Wirral Athletics Club, Sam specialises in 400 metres and the 400 metre hurdles.

Sam Lunt, 17, from Eastham, began to take athletics seriously in Year 9, when his Sunday League football team folded. A teenage runner has his sights set on the Olympics after an unbeaten season saw him called up to the Great Britain team.

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