Just two Championship Best Performances tumbled on the second day of the Sussex Track and Field Championships at the K2 Leisure Centre at Crawley on Sunday. Conditions were not quite as good as Saturday with a stronger, and sometimes cold, head wind slowing the sprint times and also playing havoc with the pole vaulters. Ironically […]
Record crash on Day One
Several records came crashing down on the first day of the Sussex County Track and field championships at Crawley’s K2 Leisure centre on Saturday. Apart for a headwind down the home straight conditions were pretty good but even so, most of the records, or more strictly, Championships best performances came in the throwing events rather […]
Battles promised at Crawley
Entries are up15% on last year for this weekend’s Sussex County Track and Field championships at Crawley’s K2 stadium but only in the Younger Athletes events. With many of the top Sussex seniors away at University the lack of support for the senior events follows the nationwide trend of the past decade but although fields […]
Fillery breaks 50 year old record
One of the oldest Sussex records tumbled last weekend when Brighton & Hove’s Cameron Fillery smashed club mate Andy Todd’s fifty year old U20 110m Hurdles record of 14.2s. Competing at the Newham “Open” meeting the Brighton College schoolboy became the first Sussex athlete to break the fourteen second barrier and he did it twice. […]
Victory for Crawley Women at Wigan
The Crawley Athletic Club’s women’s team chalked up a stonking victory in their opening UKWLg of the season at Wigan on Sunday. Having undertaken the long trip to Wigan they virtually dominated the Division two match with Under 17 performer Orla Brothers setting the team off to a great start with a fine second place […]
Steady Start for Crawley and Brighton & Hove
There was a steady start for both Crawley and Brighton & Hove in the first round of the British Athletics League on Saturday. Crawley finished fifth of eight teams in the Division two match at Kingsmeadow while Brighton & Hove placed third of six teams in their home Division four match which had to be […]