Sussex sprinters Kim Baptiste from Crawley and Toby Harries (Brighton Phoenix) broke Sussex 200 metre records on the second day of the British Championships and World Championship Trials at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. On Saturday Baptiste, who is certainly on great form, reached the semi-final of the 100 metres, when smashing her own Sussex […]
Record Breaking in Under 15 League matches.
There was a Sussex Under 15 record breaking spree last week when the second of this season Under 15 League matches were held. In the East division at Lewes, on Wednesday the home club’s Sam Dunstall improved the boys long jump mark with a fine leap of 5.77, and Brighton & Hove’s Elizabeth Korczak upped […]
Mullett takes British Steeplechase title.
Lewes’s Rob Mullett made another step on the road to run for Great Britain at the World Championships in London next month when he dominated the 3000m steeplechase in the British Championships at Birmingham on Saturday. Running well within himself he controlled the race striding clear to a convincing victory over Bracknell’s Zac Seddon in […]
Anning makes the Commonwealth – The Weekend
Amber Anning has been selected to represent England in the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas later next month, but not in for the 400 metres. Anning, who had to withdraw from the final of the National U20 400 metres because of a twinge two weeks back, lost her number one spot and almost assured […]
Junior Boys Win at Kingsmeadow
The Sussex Schools junior Boy’s team were brilliant in the South East Schools Combined Events championships at Kingsmeadow over the weekend. With a series of fine performances Adam Lindo and Spike Gleave filled the first two places in the Pentathlon and with Seb Wallace and Tom Ridley placing eighth and ninth the Sussex team trounced […]
Sussex Record for Anning, Mullet fourth, YDLg
Competing for the England Schools team in the 15th Jean Humbert Memorial ISF World Schools Athletics Championships at Nancy, France Amber Anning (Brighton & Hove) romped to a convincing victory in the U17 400 metres. Run as a straight final Anning smashed the Sussex U17 and U20 records with a brilliant 54.23s beating the thirteen […]