Despite the loss of three potential medallists at Birmingham over the weekend it was another good year for Sussex Schools in fact they seem to be going through a fairly rich patch. For the fourth successive year they have won ten medals at these championships, this year it was six golds, which was one more […]
Kyrell tops the tables at the Under 13 Champs
In near perfect weather conditions, there was just one record breaking performance at the Sussex Under 13 Championships, which took place at Brighton’s Withdean stadium on Sunday. Hastings Kyrell Wilson took the 800m title in 2:16.35, taking almost a second from the previous championship best and winning by a margin of more than 51⁄2 seconds. […]
Six Golds for Sussex at English Schools
A brilliant second day at Birmingham saw the Sussex Schools team record one of their best ever English Schools results beating last year’s tally of five gold medals but overall equalled the 2016 total of ten medals. Despite the loss of three potential medallists this was an excellent result for Sussex on a weekend when […]
Lizzie Korczak and Adam Lindo win School’s Title
Brilliant throwing by Lizzie Korczak (Brighton Coll) and a splendid leap from Adam Lindo (Downlands) gave Sussex a great start at the 2017 English Schools Track and Field championships at Birmingham as they gained Gold medals on Friday. Sussex were particularly strong in the Junior (U15) Girls javelin event with County and Sussex Schools champion […]
England Schools at Birmingham and weekend activities
The Sussex Schools teams have lost the services of three potential medallists from this weekend’s English Schools Championships at Birmingham. Amber Anning, who was eager to defend her Inter 300m title but was told that she should withdraw following her selection for the Commonwealth Youth Games later this month and Toby Harries who will be […]
Sussex fight at Kingsmeadow
Despite the difficulties in finding team managers for the Annual South East Senior Inter-County match Noel Butler and Elise Lovell did manage to get a few athletes to Kingsmeadow on Sunday to fly the Sussex Flag. It was very much a skeleton team that struggled into sixth place of the eight competing Counties but there […]