Hastings athlete Grace Baker is the only Sussex runner selected in the Great Britain and NI team for the World Cross-country Championships at Guiyang in China at the end of the month. Last weekend Baker, who has strung together a fine series of races this year, finished fourth in the junior race at the Inter-county […]
Sussex Schools teams off to Blackburn -10km walk championships
The Sussex Schools squad will travel to Blackburn on Friday for the English Schools Cross-country championships minus three of their top performers. Archie Davis who was planning a good run in the intermediate race and a place in the International team has had to withdraw as his fine run in the Indoor 800 metre Championships […]
Good Day for Sussex at C.A.U
Brilliant running from Grace Baker, Ben Tickner, Almi Nerurkar and Stephen Ferroni gained Top Ten places and highlighted one of the most successful years for Sussex teams in the Inter-counties for many years. Sussex managed to complete teams in all ten races at Crofton Park, Birmingham, something that is not always the case and seven […]
Hey Ho Silver for Emanuel
A brilliant run from Lee Emanuel from Hastings earned him the silver medal in the 3000m European Indoor Championships in Prague on Saturday afternoon. Always in the mix it was the Sussex runner who took up the challenge when Ali Kaya from Turkey blazed away just after half distance and although could not manage to […]
Emanuel and Grice through to Finals in Prague
Lee Emanuel had an excellent race in the 3,000 metres in the European Indoor Championships in Prague yesterday. Always looking comfortable Emanuel took second place in his heat in 7:52.39s just a couple of metres behind title favourite Richard Ringer from Germany. Emanuel will be racing in the final at 6.45 this evening. On Saturday […]
Inter-countie and European Championships
Sussex, as we go to press, is fielding probably their strongest senior men’s team for many years, in the Counties Athletic Union cross country championships at Crofton Park, Birmingham on Saturday. In recent years many leading Sussex runners have declined selection for this event but this year just two of the top nine in the […]