YEOVIL NEWS: Congratulations to Euro champ Jo Pavey

BRITISH long-distance runner Jo Pavey, who has recently been training at the Yeovil Athletics Arena, has tonight (Tuesday, August 12, 2014) become the oldest female European champion in history.

She won the 10,000metres race tonight in Zurich at the age of 40 – just ten months after giving birth to a second child.

Pavey was the 2012 European Championship silver medallist in the 10,000metres and is a two-time 5,000m medallist in the Commonwealth Games with silver in Melbourne in 2006 and bronze in Glasgow this summer.

But tonight’s gold medal result is her biggest by far.

Only earlier today South Somerset District Council’s health and well-being spokesman, Cllr Sylvia Seal, said the authority had been “proud to play a small part” in Pavey’s success with her training at the Yeovil Athletics Arena in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow which saw her gain bronze.

Now the council has used its social networking Twitter site to congratulate Pavey on her golden moment in Zurich.

The tweet reads: “Gold for @jopavey at the European Championships! Well done Jo. We hope training at Yeovil Rec helped with that win!”

PHOTO - TOP: Jo Pavey celebrates her European triumph in Zurich tonight (Tuesday, August 12, 2014).

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