Sensational Sobodu has got to leave

SIZZLING Funmi Sobodu is leaving Worthing. The 16-year-old sprinter, who exploded onto the national scene this winter and stormed this summer to the World Schools 100 metres and the AAA Under-17 100m and 200m double, must leave town.

By The Newsroom

Published 16th Aug 2006, 11:02 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 00:48 BST

Straight after his Birmingham triumph with a championship best-equalling 100m time of 10.49sec '” the second fastest in UK junior history '” came the shock news.

Just as the town and Worthing Harriers were bursting with pride at a local athletics legend in the making, they found out that his family must leave East Worthing at the end of this month to be in his physiotherapist father Kunle's workplace of Colchester.

His Harriers coach Alan Denyer, who discovered Sobodu little more than a year ago at a schools race, said: "It's bitter sweet: first the pleasure, then the pain."

For full report, see this week's Worthing Herald.

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