Sebastian Rodger from Eastbourne made a cracking start to his track season at the Loughborough International meeting on Sunday in the 400 metres hurdles. In recent seasons Rodger has been chasing the standard for major championships until well into the season but with a fluid run in good conditions on Sunday the Eastbourne runner hit […]
Another Busy Weekend.
Following last weekend’s successful County championships where twelve Championships Best Performances were set and it looks like 39 English Schools Standards were achieved, it is back to League athletics this weekend and the Loughborough International meeting. The Loughborough match is on Sunday and Sussex have two athletes in the GB Junior team as well as several athletes […]
Sunshine and More Records on Day Two of The Champs
With the arrival of lovely sunshine on the Sunday of the Sussex Track and Field Championships, came the tumbling of more Championship Best Performances. The calm and warm conditions on the second day were a huge improvement on the previous afternoon’s rain at the K2 Leisure Centre, in Crawley. On her home track Crawley AC’s Natasha Purchas […]
Records Tumble despite the rain on Day one at K2
On a day when the weather switched from dry and pleasant to breezy, wet and cold a quartet of records fell at the Sussex County Track and Field Championships. The morning at K2, Crawley started out cloudy but still and just like last year it was the throws rather than the track where the first Championship Best […]
Entries Up Again for this weekend’s Sussex Championships.
Entrants for this weekend’s Sussex Track & Field championships at the K2 Leisure centre at Crawley are up for the sixth successive year. For, what it is believed is the first time more than 1000 entries have been received from 640 athletes. However the increase is in the young athlete’s age groups as there is […]
Gold and Silver for Sussex at BUCS- Birmingham 10k.
Sussex athletes struck gold and silver in the BUCS championships at Bedford over the weekend. County 400m hurdles record hold Bethany Close forsook the hurdles to race on the flat and was a convincing winner of the 200m in 24.38s for her Bath University. In his first year at these championships Joe Fuggle from Wadhurst, […]