It was certainly Ladies day on the first day of the Sussex Athletics Championships when they returned to the Withdean Stadium in Brighton for the first time for a couple of decades. I can find three broken championship best performances and one equalled, which is not a vintage haul but not too bad by the […]
Sussex Championships return to Brighton
After a gap of a quarter of a century the Sussex Track and Field Championships return to Brighton this weekend. Traditionally the men’s championships were held in the Brighton area in the years before WWII and immediately after and apart from a couple of not very successful transfers to Princes Park, Eastbourne in the 1950s […]
Sussex Masters Track & Field Championships Entry deadline looms
On-line entries for the Sussex Masters Track & Field Championships close this Saturday. The event at Ewell on 5th June is for athletes aged 35+. Once again it is being held in conjunction with the Surrey Championships. For details and to enter on-line click on the following link: https://t.co/4lniYj2zWO
Sussex teams go Fourth in British League UPDATE
In a tough and hard fought match at Cardiff the Crawley British League team did well to finish fourth in their Division two match. Although the individual results and final points are unreliable the positions are likely to be confirmed. They currently stand at 378 points for the home team and 332 for near neighbours Swansea […]
It’s Broken
It’s gone! Roy Cruttenden’s Sussex senior men’s long jump record of 7.59m, set way back in 1956, reached its Diamond Jubilee but after sixty years it has been broken. Brighton athlete Tom French, now competing for Blackheath in Division one of the British Athletics League, has on Saturday, added just one centimetre to the record. […]
Sussex and Surrey schools combined events championships
Calling all would be Jessica Ennis-Hill’s or Ashton Eaton’s – the Sussex Schools Combined Events Championships take place at K2, Crawley on Wednesday 1st June during the half term holiday. For year 7 athletes there is a quadrathlon (Hurdles, Long Jump, Shot and 800m). For Years 8/9 and 10/11, athletes add the High Jump to […]