This weekend will see our Sussex youngsters travel to Leeds for the English Schools Cross-country Championships. School teams from 46 counties in England will gather at the Temple Newsam event, which is one of the biggest in the cross country calendar. The six Sussex teams are made up of athletes selected from their performances in […]
Four Sussex Team Top Tens And A Silver For Cook
It was a blustery day for the Sussex teams at the Inter-counties Cross Country Championships at Prestwold Hall in Loughborough, on Saturday. In what were completely different conditions to last year’s mud bath, four of our teams placed in the top 10 and there were some impressive individual performances. One of these was Bodyworks athlete, […]
Bronze medals and some sparkling performances at the South East Sportshall Finals
For the first time the under-11, under-13 and under-15 Sportshall regional finals all took place on the same day at the Triangle in Burgess Hill. It was the girls who triumphed with both the u15 and u13 girls winning bronze team medals. The under 15 competition is for all rounders and each athlete has to […]
Anning takes European Silver medal
Brighton & Hove’s Amber Anning returned home from the European Indoor Championships at Glasgow on Sunday with a splendid silver medal. Racing in her 400m heat on Friday Anning was squeezed into third place in 53.26s and just missed a place in the semi-final but ran a pretty impressive senior international debut. On Sunday she was […]
Record Fields at Sussex Schools Y 7/8
A record number of more than six-hundred youngsters competed in the Sussex Schools Year seven and eight cross-country championships at Christ’s Hospital last Thursday. The top twenty runners in each of the four race will be invited to represent Sussex Schools in the South East Inter-counties match, also at Christ’s Hospital, in a few weeks-time. […]
Fine runs at Leeds and 3 titles at Sheffield for Sussex
Three Sussex athletes gained top twenty placings in the National Cross-country championships at Leeds and three annexed titles at the National Young Athletes championship at Sheffield over the weekend. Few Sussex athletes seem to have made the trip to Leeds and I have been unable to plough through all the results so would be interested […]