Roedean schoolgirl Amber Anning smashed the championship record in the Sussex Schools Combined Events championship at Crawley on Wednesday. Competing in the junior pentathlon Anning took the lead in the opening event, the 75m hurdles where she clocked 12.4s and she moved further away from her rivals when putting the shot 9.22m the high jump […]
Gold and Silvers for Sussex at Nationals.
A quartet of top line Sussex athletes missed the weekend’s County Championships, where they were certain of medals, to contest the National Combined Events championships at Bedford and they did it to good effect bringing back to Sussex one gold medal and two silvers. It was Elise Lovell (Hastings) who really did the business notching […]
Record breaking spree by Pole Vaulters at Sussex Championships
The second day of the Sussex Track and Field championships produced some more fine competition and some championship records but before dealing with those let us re-track to Saturday where further investigation produced some more record breaking performances. In the senior 200 metres Jason Hussain’s winning time of 21.2s equalled his own three year old […]
Help needed for County Championships
We are in need of volunteers to support the officials in the field events at the Championships on 13th June. Whether it be pulling a tape measure, raking a pit or returning throwing implements it will help to make the event run smoothly and to time. If you are available to help, even if only […]
Athletes Sparkle at K2
The promised sunshine did not arrive for the Sussex Track and Field championships at Crawley K2 Centre but there was plenty of sparkle from the athletes particularly in the younger age groups. Conditions were good for competition but I can only find one record amongst the nearly 80 events that were held during the six […]
County Championship weekend.
The Sussex Track and Field championships swallows up the weekend with non-stop action taking place the K2 Leisure Centre from 11.00 on both Saturday and Sunday through to 5.00 on both days. With the World Championships at Beijing plus the World Youth, European Junior and Commonwealth Youth championships all being held this season and the […]