There were eight titles and several silver and bronze medals for Sussex athletes at the South of England U15/17 track and field championships at the Crystal Palace over the weekend with Worthing’s Ben Hawkes completing a hat trick in the U17 throwing events. Hawkes has had a remarkable season with many wins to his name […]
Crawley third at Lee Valley
Crawley finished their 2017 British League Season with an excellent third place in their final Division two match at Lee Valley on Sunday. With a Holiday hit team, and the day after contesting a Southern League match the Crawley squad amassed 284 points behind Kingston, 326, and Bournemouth 308 and ahead of Bristol & West […]
CAU Team Results – UPDATE
Rather belatedly we have now received the team results from the CAU championships at Bedford which I covered at the end of last month. Sussex did not manage to get truly representative teams out for the championships but Crawley’s Kimbely Baptiste did retain her 200m title as reported and I did miss a splendid discus […]
A busy weekend’s athletics
After a break of a couple of weeks it is back to normal with domestic athletics with Championship and Southern League matches on Saturday and British League matches on Sunday. School and family Holidays are likely to affect the support of all the events but none-more-so than the South of England U15/17 championships which are […]
Gold and Silver in Denmark – – UPDATE – Mullett
Crawley’s David Beattie did a “Mo Farah” to strike gold in the European Master’s Track and Field Championships at Aarhus in Denmark. The former winner of the London to Brighton Road Race in 1990 and oft times Sussex Masters Cross-country champion, who has been a leading Sussex runner in his age group since he attended […]
Sprinters sparkle and Javelins soar at the South-East Inter-Counties
Worthing’s Bailey Smith and Burgess Hill/Lewes athlete Adam Lawson were two of the stars of Sussex’s under 13 team at the annual South-East Inter-counties fixture at Kingston. Despite cross winds and increasingly wet and dreary weather Bailey won his individual ‘A’ 100m race in 12.7s and was second fastest overall in the event before running […]