Amber Anning ran the fastest ever 400 metres by a Sussex woman when winning her seeded race indoors in Vienna on Saturday. Her time of 53.35s was well over a second faster than the second girl and was the fastest by any British U20 woman this century. In fact not since Marilyn Neufville clocked 53.01s […]
Bronze medal for Tarragano at Parliament Hill
Brilliant running from Brighton & Hove’s Tomer Tarragano, Brighton Phoenix’s Almi Nerurkar and Nicole Taylor (Tonbridge) highlighted the racing at the South of England Cross-country championships at Parliament Hill on Saturday as far as Sussex were concerned. Tarragano was in fact the only Sussex medal winner finishing a splendid third in the U20 Men’s event […]
Indoor Internationals and S o E Cross Country
Three Sussex athletes are lined up for Indoor International competition for England over the next ten days. On Saturday Brighton & Hove’s, Amber Anning, following her successful defence of her South of England U20 200m title, will be racing over 400m in Vienna and the following weekend she will be racing, again over 400 metres, […]
Two Golds for Sussex at Lee Valley
There were a clutch of medals for Sussex athletes at the South of England Indoor championships at Lee Valley over the weekend with a clean sweep in the senior 800 metres for Brighton Phoenix athletes. In fact Phoenix had four athletes through to the final of the senior 800m with George Mills, a Brighton University […]
Run-a-way winners at Sussex Masters
There were run-a-way victories for all six winners of the Sussex Masters Cross country championships at Coombe Farm on Saturday. The races were well supported over this new testing course in spite of the damp and cold conditions. With both Neil Boniface and James Baker no showing in the M40 race it was left to […]
Schools Athletes Brighten Grotty conditions
The depressing conditions on Wednesday did nothing to depress the enthusiasm of the five hundred plus youngsters who contested the Sussex Schools (Brighton Marathon) cross country championships at the Waterhall grounds at Brighton. Despite the drizzle, sometimes rain and cold conditions it was a joyous afternoon’s racing with few surprises and the afternoon started in […]