The accent this weekend is very much on the younger element of the sport with competitions on both Saturday and Sunday. The Babies take pride of price on Saturday when the Sussex under 13 and Quads Kids Championships take place at Withdean including the U15 and U17 3,000 metre championships which are being held early […]
Baker makes G.B. Junior team
The first tranche of the Great Britain junior team for the European Championships at Eskilstuna, Sweden next month and been announced with Hastings athlete Grace Baker the only Sussex athlete in this first batch. Baker has been selected for the 5,000 metres where she recently placed second in the Trials race at Manchester. Clocking 16:19.66s […]
Good Weekend for Sussex Athletes at Bedford.
There were gold medals for Charlie Grice and Ryan Driscoll and several minor medals for other Sussex athletes in the wind and rain swept English U20/23 Championships at Bedford over the weekend, which also doubled as the “Trials” for various Major Games. Grice (Brighton Phoenix) is firmly established as one of the top British senior […]
Y.D.L Lower Age Group matches
There were mixed fortunes in the third round of the Lower Age Groups in the Youth Development Southern Area League on Sunday. In Premier Two Crawley, who lost their previous match because the home club failed to book the track, had a nail-biting match and actually finished up in sixth team place having won the […]
Fine Sprint doubles – UPDATE
Despite the strength of opposition, Surrey, Kent and Hampshire, there were several impressive performances from the Sussex youngsters in the Inter-County Schools match at Erith on Saturday. There was a particularly impressive sprint double from Alyssa White in the junior age group with winning performances of 12.41 and 25.78s while in the same age group […]
Gold Rush for Sussex Athletes at the Southern Championships
In one of the county’s best performances in recent years, Sussex athletes stormed to victory after victory, and many podium places, at last weekend’s South of England Championships at a windy Lee Valley. Worthing’s Emma Macready raced to honours in the 3000m steeplechase, moving into the lead with 1000m to go and never relinquishing it. […]