Sussex have three athletes in the Great Britain team for the European Indoor Championships at Glasgow next month. Brighton Phoenix’s Charlie De’Vall Grice, who placed ninth in the 1500 metres at the Muller Invitation Games on Saturday, will race in the 3,000m while club mate Robbie Fitzgerald will be making his debut in a major […]
Indoors this Weekend – Steyning 15km
Indoor athletics dominates the athletics picture for Sussex athletes this weekend with the Sussex Indoor championships being held at the Sutton Arena in conjunction with the Surrey County Championships. Track events will be held on Saturday and the field events on Sunday. They will however be missing a couple of the leading Sussex athletes who […]
League Winners on Minimum Points
Five athletes scored minimum points to win this season’s Sussex Cross-country League titles plus two masters who were the only ones to complete all three races in their age groups. Youngsters Bethany Cook (Bodyworks) U15 girls and Miles Waterworth (Crawley) U13 boys both dominated strong opposition to stamp their authority on their age groups as […]
Windy Conditions at Bexhill
Saturday produced an extra obstacle for the runners in the final Sussex Cross-country League races of the season at Bexhill Down when they were confronted with a persistent 24 mph south west wind. Course manager Terry Skelton described the conditions as “the strongest wind I can remember since I have been marking the course”. Apart […]
British record and five medals at National Indoors
Sussex athletes scooped up three silver and two bronze medals and a British U20 400 m indoor record, at the British Indoor Championships and European trials at Birmingham over the weekend. It was Brighton & Hove’s Amber Anning who set the new record and it was a good one. It was way back in 1970, […]
Final Sussex League at Bexhill Down – British Indoor champs
The foreshortened Sussex Cross-country League for the 2018/19 season reaches its climax at Bexhill Down on Saturday. The Sussex League originally started as a three race competition last century with a commitment to contest all three runs to be eligible for League medals. However for more than a couple of decades now we have held […]