Melanie Anning and I have been taking advantage of the hiatus in athletic competition to scrutinise our “All-time” Ranking Lists and bring those up to date and correct some anomalies that have crept in since 1980 when I first produced the lists. It has been a rather time consuming job but we have had excellent […]
Rowland King of the “Sticks”
It was not until 1949 and the opening of the Sussex Athletics track in Hove that any track in Sussex had permanent steeplechase barriers on site let alone a water jump. Consequently the two mile steeplechase championship did not feature in the Sussex County championships till then In these circumstances it was rather puzzling that […]
Sussex Schools Virtual Stars
More than twenty five Sussex schools’ athletes accepted the invitation to compete in the English Schools Track and Field Virtual competition, in what would have been the 90th English Schools Championships last weekend. Eight finished in what would have been medal positions had it been the championships. Brighton College’s Ruby Jerges, who had finished fifth […]
So Near Yet So Far
Tim Hutchings by Tony Miller Crawley’s first true male star was Tim Hutchings who represented his country in all the major Championships with real distinction. But it took him a while to appreciate just how good he was. In the early ’70s Tim’s parents moved out of London and down to the Sussex […]
Janis Long 70-years of Sussex Athletics
In Sussex we have had many athletes and administrators who have spent a lifetime involved in Sussex athletics but there can be few, if any, that can match the length of that of Janis Long from Eastbourne who was born at Eastbourne Hospital on 15th June 1935 and went to Bourne County School and Eastbourne […]
Sussex Schools Athletics Association
English Schools Virtual Athletics Competition 2020 This week should have been the English Schools Track & Field Championships in Manchester, With the loss of the event that so many young athletes look forward to each year, ESAA made the decision to offer an opportunity for athletes to compare their progress with others across the […]