There was an excellent fourth team placing for the Sussex girls in the South East Under 13 Inter-county match at Kingston in wet and difficult conditions on Sunday. The Boys also did well placing seventh of the 13 competing counties. As is usually the case there were few Sussex winners at this event but there […]
Grice underlines British superiority.
A sparkling run at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday saw Charlie Grice (Brighton Phoenix) underline his current position as the top British 1500 metre/One mile runner. Racing in a strong International field in the “Emsley Carr Mile” Grice, the reigning British Champion was, like British rivals Ross Murray and Chris O’Hare always in the main […]
Inter-counties – Preview
Sussex had a tough time at the South of England U17 Inter-counties match at High Wycombe last weekend when they finished eighth in the men’s match and seventh in the women’s match. Lillie Franks appears to have been the only winner clearing 1.72m in the high jump. Tamsin Campbell cleared 3.25m to take second place […]
Grice gets standard – Buxton and Anning take Southern Titles.
Charlie Grice (Brighton Phoenix) made sure of a trip to the World championships at Beijing next month when he cracked the Qualifying standard in a hard fought race at Heusden-Zolder in Belgium at the weekend. Grice was squeezed into second place in in 3:35.29s, nearly one second inside the standard required, and as the reigning […]
International round up.
There was a disappointing run from Grace Baker from Hastings in the final of the 5,000 metres at the European Junior Championships in Sweden on Sunday. Although her best time would have seen her challenging for a medal she was a minute outside her best as she finished back in 16th place in 17:25.92s, the […]
International Weekend.
Competing in the first, and by far the faster semi-final, of the 1,500metre yesterday Fitzgibbon finished sixth in 3:45.54 when just over one second covered the first six finishers in this race and will race in the final of European Junior championships at Eskiltuna in Sweden on Saturday. Club mate Spencer Thomas will line up […]