Surrey Mirror published Caterham School student Sam Talbot breaks his own UK U18...

CATERHAM School student Sam Talbot broke his own UK U18 decathlon record to qualify for the European Athletics Youth Championships in July.Talbot, 17, amassed 7,035 points to comfortably win the U18 decathlon at the Combined Events Championships in Bedford last weekend.The score bettered the 6,971 Talbot recorded in June last year, taking the long-standing U18 record from Daley Thompson.And despite his record-breaking effort, Talbot, ever the perfectionist, was disappointed with some of his...

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