Hugh Foord (Brighton A.C) who was, with Pat Ranger from Eastbourne, the top Sussex cross-country runner in the fifties and early sixties celebrates his 91st birthday on Monday and is still managing to take his daily run on Hove Seafront. Last year, following his 90th birthday, this item was posted on the Brighton Park […]
Watch this Space
Over the next few weeks I will be posting, at least weekly I hope, items about athletics in Sussex since 1900 and maybe a little earlier. I hope to have some contributions from others within Sussex who have a knowledge of Sussex athletics over the last fifty years. Some will be historical or maybe quirky […]
Top Sussex Senior Men’s teams at C.A.U Inter-counties.
The recent third team place for the senior men’s team in the C.A.U Inter-counties at Loughborough was a magnificent performance from a Sussex point of view. In normal circumstances a top ten team placing would be considered an excellent placing and indeed the senior women’s team, who finished a splendid fifth was rather overshadowed by […]
Bronze for Cook and near miss for senior boys
A bronze medal for Bethany Cook and a fourth team spot for the senior boys’ team highlighted the Sussex Schools performance at the English Schools cross-country championships at Sefton Park, Liverpool in what may prove the last major sports event for several weeks. Although it stayed dry for the races the ground was wet and […]
English Schools Cross-country goes ahead
The Sussex Schools Cross-country teams set off for Liverpool at midday on Friday to compete in the English Schools Championships after several nail biting days worrying about the Coronavirus and what the Government might do. Last minute withdrawals meant that both the Senior (U19) Boy’s and Girl’s teams will be short on numbers and last […]
Women look strong at Inter-counties
The Sussex Women’s cross-country team for this weekend’s C.A.U Cross country champions at Prestwold Hall, Loughborough looks like being one of the best they have turned out in several years. Just one of the top five runners in the Sussex Championships, Beth Kidger, at the beginning of the years is unable to make the team […]