After last weekend’s successful meeting at West Park, Worthing the Sussex County A.A are hoping for similar success tomorrow at K2 with the Festival of Athletics which is mainly directed at Sussex athletes though the weather forecast is not kind to either athletes and less so to officials. The date, the 8th […]
The sprinter who became an International thrower
Although a few Sussex athletes have managed two appearances at the Commonwealth Games Championships none has also won four English Schools titles and broken UK age records as they moved through the age groups; let alone held every Sussex record from U13 to Senior in their event. An athlete who fulfils that criteria is […]
John Kitching – – – Amber Anning
The recent publication of the British Athletics 2021 Handbook, which reveals the Ranking lists, such as they are for 2020, and athletes who we have lost during the past year including former Sussex Javelin, and High jump champion and record holder. John Kitching, Burgess Hill, was an Achilles (Cambridge University) athlete who competed […]
No Standen still for Peter
Back in February Kate Matthews had a chat with Peter Standen, who is eighty next month about his coaching but it is probably worth while looking back some sixty years when he was one of the most promising middle distance runners in the United Kingdom. He was also one of a few Sussex […]
A Family of Sussex Champions
The final Sussex athletics family to be featured in the latest series are the Mulletts from Newhaven. Bill Mullett had a Scottish mother and was born in Scotland on 13th November 1947 but later the family moved to Newhaven. He attended the Newhaven Secondary School where he showed considerable promise as an athlete and joined […]
Ardingly 5k
There was a full complement three hundred runners who completed the PB5km road races at Ardingly on Monday over what seemed to be a fast course, but held in cold and windy conditions. Many of the runners came from over the border in the surrounding counties and it was an Aldershot athlete who proved triumphant […]