AS Great Britain sits in sixth place at the Tokyo Games and the people feel an incredible sense of pride in the nation's amazing athletes, the Echo looks back at a Solent Games from the past.
THE fourth Echo Solent Games came to Southampton more than thirty years ago along with a sporting record.
Brendan Reilly set a British junior high jump record by posting the third-highest jump by a British jumper.
The 17-year-old jumped 2.27 metres that day on May 27, 1990, beating the previous record to put him third in the all-time best.
It also beat the previous Southampton Sports Centre best set by Geoff Parsons the previous year.
Team Solent’s Paul Sanders posted the fastest time by a Brit on home soil that year when he won the 400m in the Southern v Midlands Counties match in 46.74.
Cephus Howard of Team Solent cruised to victory in the qualifying round of the Securicor Sprint Challenge to earn his place in the final at the MacVities Challenge match in Sheffield that September.
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