Wimmera athlete Asha Meek’s weekend at the Little Athletics Victoria State Combined Event Championships was cut short after she suffered a hamstring injury on Sunday.

Meek had finished in the top 10 at the Victorian Combined Events Championships a week earlier, qualifying for the Australian Athletics Junior Championships in the process.

Stawell Little Athletics Centre coach Ricky Price said Meek had sought to gain more heptathlon experience at the weekend ahead of April’s Australian championships, but was brought undone by a hamstring injury during the 90m hurdles event on the final day.

Meek had performed well to that point, finishing third in the heptathlon’s 200m sprint, fourth in the hurdles and sixth in both high jump and long jump from a field of 13 competitors.

Price said Meek would rest before returning to training.

Horsham Little Athletics Centre’s Gretel Blake and Jett Hill both qualified for the weekend’s Combined Event Championships but elected not to compete after travelling to New Zealand for the North Island Games a week earlier.

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