A few Sussex athletes have set national senior records over the past 100 years. Towards the end of last century though, one of these was broken by a county teammate and this is believed to be the only time that has happened. At the same time a third athlete was just a touch away from […]
Karen the Spear Holder
Of all the throwing events the javelin throw seems to have been the strongest, over the years, as far as Sussex is concerned particularly at English Schools level. In the fifties/sixties John Kitching (Achilles) held the Sussex record with 74.56m with the old style javelin and represented Great Britain and he also held the […]
The Best Ever Sussex Race Walker
Darrell Stone, the man who was to become the greatest Sussex race walker of modern athletics, was born on the second of February 1968 in Hove before moving to Steyning at the age of 5. He started off taking part in almost all sports including football for Steyning Strikers (the youth team back then), captaining […]
Cross-country Man
There can be little doubt that this week’s featured profile is the one who has probably done most to stabilise athletics in the extreme west of the County which has had a rather chequered time through most of the twentieth century. In the mid war period Littlehampton and Chichester produced a few good athletes but […]
Saviour of Sussex Race Walking
Race walking has always been pretty strong in Sussex even before the formation of the Steyning Athletic Club in 1951 but 1958 became an important date for Steyning and Sussex Race-walking when Olympic 50km Champion Norman Read persuaded seventeen year old Ron Penfold to restart racing. Norman had become a foundation member of the Steyning […]
Chris Smith
It is with great regret that we have to report the loss of Haywards Heath cross-country runner Chris Smith. Chris, a member of the British Fell and Mountain Running teams, was on holiday near Invervar, Perthshire in Scotland with his family and went out for an eleven mile run including three local peaks and did […]