Horsham Blue Star athletes Seb Wallace and Cleo Tomlinson travelled to Sportcity in Manchester last Sunday to take part in the UK Sportshall Finals. The young athletes had qualified as individuals for being the leading competitors in Standing Triple Jump from the eight regional Sportshall finals. Both rose to the challenge and Seb took gold […]
Elspeth Turner wins W50 at London Marathon
Crawley’s James Westlake and Brighton & Hove’s James Turner led the Sussex challenge at the London Marathon on Sunday with both recording personal bests while Horsham’s Elspeth Turner won the W50 race. In virtually perfect conditions they both had fine runs to crack the first fifty and better the time that Jon Pepper (Brighton Phoenix) […]
Richards retains Sussex Title.
Ian Richards had to put up a good fight before retaining his Sussex 10,000 metres track walking championships at Broadbridge Heath on Saturday. In almost ideal conditions, just a slight chilly breeze out of the sun, 10 walkers started this race. Holder, Ian Richards (Steyning), went off into an early lead followed by David Crane […]
Youth Development Leagues & UK Sportshall Final
It is the turn of the Young Athletes this weekend to get down to League competition when the Lower Division of the “YDL” matches are held on Saturday. Four Sussex teams are in Division One of the Southern Area of the “YDL” with Brighton & Hove and Lewes going to Medway in East 1 while […]
Southern Athletics League
Several Sussex athletes gained “Man/Woman of the Match” awards in the first round of this season’s Southern Athletics League while both Crawley, albeit shared, and Hastings both won their matches. In Division One at Woking the Crawley team had the unusual experience of dead heating on 200 points with the promoting club for first place […]
A Hot bronze for Evans and Sussex girls Stateside University Challenge
Sussex Cross-country silver medallist Tom Evans of Lewes AC has become the first European runner to get in the top three in the notorious Marathon Sables in Morocco. This is a killer of event as it comprises 5 x marathons and one double marathon, a total of 250km in temperatures of up to 50 degrees in […]