Lewes AC’s Gemma Tutton has broken the UK under 13 pole vault record for a third time with a magnificent leap of 3.46m. Competing at her home track on Monday evening as a guest during the Sussex Masters League, Gemma first upped her record of 3.35m, set just last week, by one centimetre. She then requested […]
Records Broken in Wind at Crawley
A strong blustery wind at Crawley dampened the record breaking, and most track times, at the 84th Sussex Schools Track and Field championships on Saturday. The strong south westerly, which eddied around the finish area played havoc with not only the sprints and straight hurdles but also the pole vault and high jump which are […]
Sussex Schools clash with Southern Championships
It is from this event that the bulk of the 60 strong Sussex team for the All England Schools championships at Birmingham in July will be selected. Every one of that team will be expected to have achieved a pretty tough standard and competed well on Saturday. Unfortunately the untimely clash with the South of […]
Crawley beaten by one point at Stevenage – – National and European records broken at Ewell.
After an afternoon long battle the Crawley Athletic Club’s women’s team were beaten by just one point in their UKWL Division two match at Stevenage on Sunday. After winning the season’s first match at Wigan last month the Crawley women were faced by a determined Sale team, who were runners up in the first match, […]
UK Pole vault best for Gemma
Competing in the pole vault at the U15 League match (West) in Horsham on Friday, Lewes AC’s Gemma Tutton – an under 13 athlete – smashed her own UK record by 15 centimetres, with a magnificent height of 3.35m. Gemma had to wait over an hour before entering the competition and when she cleared 2.80m with her first […]
It’s Tough at the Top in British League
Both the Crawley and Brighton & Hove teams are holding their own in the current British League battles following Saturday’s matches at Yate and Stretford. In a nail-bitingly close Division two match at Yate where just 25 points covered the first six teams the Crawley squad finished fifth with 280 points just eighteen points behind […]