AARON Harris and Andrew Elkins each threw more than 60 metres – but Nicholas Hunt’s five gold medals stole the show at the Dorset Track and Field Championships.

The remarkable Bournemouth AC under-15 twice missed out on a championship best performance (CBP) as his 40.37m discus throw and 6.23m long jump were 3cm and 2cm short, respectively.

Undeterred, he bounced back the next day, boosting the age group high jump best for this meeting by an astonishing 13cm to 1.88m – just 2cm lower than previous joint-record holder Alex Cox’s winning under-17 leap.

Hunt achieved two other victories with a 13.55m shot putt and a 36.91m javelin throw, adding to a sixth gold he won two weeks earlier in the county pentathlon championships.

Harris became the first 60-metre javelin thrower in Dorset Championship history. The Shaftesbury Barnet ace threw 60.54m to increase his 2009 senior CBP by almost four metres. Club-mate Elkins also entered the record books with a 60.01m mark in the junior men’s hammer.

Simon Fricker (shot, 13.32m), Andy Turner (discus, 40.05m) and Sam Chappell (hammer, 45.26m) showed good form to win the remaining senior men’s throws, while Steven Small retained his long jump title after an absorbing battle between three seven-metre jumpers. His 7.17m saw him just a single centimetre clear of Paul Oluyemi, while Bradley Pickup equalled the 7.12m mark that also gained him British Universities Championships bronze a week earlier.

While Wimborne AC veteran Dave Pearson cleared 3.60m to take senior gold, his contribution as a pole vault coach was clear with five CBPs in this discipline.

Under-20 Adam Carpenter’s 4.40m was just 10cm below the best all-time senior mark in a Dorset Championships, with Jack Snook (3.50m), Matthew Curtis (2.80m), Timothy Williams (1.80m) and Rachel Dumbrell (2.30m) all setting age group bests.

Megan Tuck’s junior women’s discus (35.46m) and hammer (37.18m) double, Gabrielle Rowsell’s 5.39m under-17 long jump, and javelin wins in the two youngest categories for Natalie Whisken (33.54m) and Emma Carpenter (20.12m) were among other female field highlights.

Buffeting back-straight winds hampered the distance runners on both days, yet Carley Rose clocked 19:07.6 to win the women’s 5,000m.

Verity Ockenden improved her own junior women’s 1,500m CBP to 4:48.0 as she pipped Melissa Courtney on the line, but Courtney struck back with 2:17.0 for an 800m CBP the next day.

Elisabeth Hood scored an under-13 distance double in the 800m (2:30.8) and 1,500m (5:05.7).

The county will be hoping 49.2s senior 400m champion Joe Astley will not be out for long after injury left him down on the track in the 200m. Adam Omisore added the half-lap gold (23.8s) to his senior 100m title (11.6s).