No less than eight records fell at the 2020 Sussex Indoor Championships, with a hattrick in the Long Jump. Of the 122 athletes pre-entered, 114 battled through the winds to make it to the David Weir Leisure centre, to vie for county honours. Brighton and Hove under 13s Stella Kalman and Elodie Bradley both set […]
Gold for DJ and three more medals for Sussex athletes at Southerns
The South of England Championships at Lee Valley on the first weekend of February saw fewer Sussex athletes competing than normal. Eastbourne Rover’s trainee medic and star shot putter, Daniel James (DJ) Thomas, was almost two metres down on his best, but his 13.89m throw was still enough to win gold in the senior men’s […]
Vittorio soars and honours for John Linfield at Sportshall
On Sunday scores of the county’s youngest athletes battled through high winds to get to Tanbridge House School, Horsham for the last Sportshall league fixture of the 2019/20 season. Crawley boys had won every match leading up to the final, and looked like a sure bet to retain their title, but in the the girls […]
Five golds for Sussex at Southerns
Athletes from clubs across the county made their way to Lee Valley stadium last weekend for the Southern U13/U15/U17 Indoor Championships. There were several excellent performances and personal bests but disappointingly, for a regional Championships, in some events athletes only had to turn up to win a medal. Crawley’s Alessio Anah had a stunning series […]
A sterling international debut for Tomer
Brighton and Hove under-20 Tomer Tarragano missed out on an individual medal by seconds, finishing fourth in his debut run for England at the Home Countries International in Stirling. It was a tough race with wind and heavy rain churning up the course. Tarragano was the third English runner home, just nine seconds behind his […]
Moore’s Victorious Bite of the Big Apple!
In a great start to 2020 Brighton & Hove’s Kevin Moore won the New York Road Runners Midnight 4-mile race, in a sparkling time of 19:46. The iconic race started to the sound of fireworks as the clock struck midnight. Thousands had gathered in Central Park for the annual NYRR event, whose previous winners include […]