It is with regret that we have to announce the death of former Sussex champion and founder of the Phoenix Athletic Club Matt Paterson. Matt died in Australia on Saturday at the age of 74. Paterson was one of the leading Sussex middle distance and cross-country runners in the sixties and seventies first with […]
County Championships
Although senior entries are sparse for this weekend’s Track and Field championships at the Withdean Stadium, they have held up well for the various age groups with the Under 20 entries well up on recent years. There was a dearth of senior entries in 2019, the last time the championships were held, and there […]
More fine efforts at Manchester
There were two more fifth places for Sussex athletes on the final day of the British Championships and Olympic Trials at Manchester on Sunday. The high winds and poor conditions for late June saw both athletes and limited spectators well strapped up. The two fifth places were taken by the younger athletes on show, who […]
Sussex Record for Gemma Tutton
No medals for Sussex athletes on the second day of the British Athletic Championships and Olympic Trials at Manchester but a Sussex Record came tumbling for the youngest Sussex athlete on show, Gemma Tutton from Lewes. Without doubt, the best club performance of the day came from Crawley Club member Niclas Baker, who is actually […]
Sussex Athletes make Trials finals
Sussex athletes made a good start to the first day of the British Championships an Olympic Trials at Manchester last night with several booking themselves a place in today’s finals. A trio of Brighton Phoenix 1500m runners will be lining up for to-day’s 1,500m final, which should be a corker. Charlie de’vall Grice ran a […]
Gold Medal and Sussex Record for Korczak
Sussex have two more National champions following the weekend’s English U20 and U20 age group championships at Bedford. As is her wont, this season, Brighton & Hove’s Lizzie Korczak, recorded a personal best in the U20 javelin throw but also broke her own Sussex record and for the first time topped fifty metres in competition. […]