Southern Road Relay Championships: The Lewes Athletic Club’s senior women’s team had a tremendous result in the Southern Counties Six stage Road Relay championship at Milton Keynes on Sunday. With alternate short and long stages, Emma Navesey had a steady run on the first leg, which is always a tough leg, to finish 11th in […]
Splendid Team Victory And An International Qualifier at English Schools
A very rare team gold medal and a top 10 individual finish for Sussex highlighted a fine day at the English Schools Cross-Country Championships at Hop Farm, Paddock Wood in Kent on Saturday. Were it not for Covid19 there could have been more team medals for Sussex, but as it was the team victory came […]
Clash of the Schools Athletes.
To all intents and purposes, the cross country season comes to an end at the Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, in Kent on Saturday with the England Schools Cross-Country Championships. It was this event in 2020 that closed down athletics before the first lockdown and schools’ athletics has suffered very much in the intervening period. It […]
Gold for Leanne in European
Sussex has a new European Athletics Champion following the European Masters Championships at Braga in Portugal last weekend. Shoreham College schoolteacher Leanne Buxton, a former Sussex record holder and currently Sussex Schools team manager, trounced the field in the W40 indoor pentathlon to finish more than 200 points ahead of the Dutch athlete Wendy Visser […]
Gold for Harries at UK Indoors
Sussex athletes scooped up three medals at the UK Indoor championships at Birmingham at the weekend with Tony Harries (Brighton Phoenix) striking gold in the 200 metres. In a year where there are both European Games and the Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games teams seeking athletes, Toby has certainly started well and he was a convincing winner […]
Sussex Record and Gold Medals at Sheffield
Sussex youngsters won a handful of medals at the English Age Groups Indoor Championships at Sheffield on the same weekend as the Sussex Indoor championships. Neither championships were back to the level of support seen two years back before Covid but there were fine Gold medals brought home to Sussex in the U20 Women’s […]