It was a very different kind of Sussex Schools’ meeting at Crawley’s K2 Leisure centre on Saturday. Instead of holding their Annual Championships, Sussex Schools held “Trials” to help athletes from Sussex achieve a qualification standard and possible selection for the County team for the English Schools Championships at Manchester next month. The athletes […]
A Busy Weekend Coming – Fillery Record
For the first time since the pandemic, eighteen months back, we have a schools’ track and field competition and the South of England Champs – making for a very busy weekend of athletics. Sussex Schools are putting on their “trials” on the same date that would usually be used for the Championships at the K2 […]
More Record breaking for Anning
Brighton & Hove’s 20-year-old Amber Anning broke her own Sussex Women’s 400m record at the weekend. Running for Louisiana State University in the Quarter finals of the NCAA East championships Amber finished third in Jacksonville in a county record time of 51.78s. This gives her automatic qualifying to the NCAA finals, the week after next […]
A successful weekend for Sussex Athletes
Four metres clearance for Gemma Tutton There were many fine performances by Sussex athletes at various venues over the weekend in, to say the least, variably difficult conditions. Prize of place must go to sixteen year old Gemma Tutton from Lewes who has become only the second Sussex woman to clear four metres in […]
Veteran becomes a Top Sussex distance runner
Nigel Gates moved to Sussex at the end of 1988, having sold his gym in Bath, to manage the leisure facilities at the new Buxted Park Hotel. At 35 he had already enjoyed a long career running at National level and he joined Brighton and Hove AC with a view to winning team titles […]
Profiles
At the end of the week, I will be posting the final of 37 regular Sussex Athlete Profiles which Kate Matthews and I started on the 1st of April 2020 to keep the website alive during lockdown. Since that date, I have produced 33 profiles with the help of Keith May (1), Melanie Anning (1) […]