Some of the county’s youngest athletes competed at the Under 11 regional Sportshall final on Sunday. The annual event at the Triangle in Burgess Hill brought together the best Sportshall teams from across the South East. The Sussex athletes were up against strong opposition and with weakened teams due to injury and availability, struggled to make an impact. […]
Never Too Many Cooks
More than five hundred Sussex School athletes contested the Year 7 & 8 cross-country championships at Christ’s Hospital last week and without doubt it was yet another Cook girl from Eastbourne who chalked up the largest margin of victory of the four races. Over the last decade Chloe, Izzy and Grace have made a major […]
Emanuel retains his National 3000m title.
There was a brilliant victory for Lee Emanuel from Hastings on the first day of the British Trials and Indoor Championships at Sheffield on Saturday and Top Ten placings for both Livvy Connor from Lewes and Brighton & Hove’s Tom French. Racing in the 3000 metres, where he was the reigning champion, Emanuel ran the […]
Sussex Athletes at National championships
National athletic championships dominate this weekend’s activities with the Cross County event at Donnington on Saturday and the Indoor Championships, incorporating the Trials for the World championships at Sheffield on both Saturday and Sunday. It is at Sheffield where more than twenty Sussex athletes will be in action ranging from seventeen year olds Toby Harries […]
Smashing Weekend Indoors
It was a smashing weekend for the Sussex girls at the County Indoor championships at Sutton over the weekend. The girls/women amassed a total of ten Championship Best Performances while Brighton & Hove’s Matt Hewitt was the only male record breaker clocking 8.38 in the senior 60m hurdles while in the senior women’s events there […]
Golden Girl Beth
Brighton & Hove’s Bethany Close struck gold at the BUCS Indoor Championships on Saturday with a clear cut victory. Close, running for Swansea University, who had won bronze in this event twelve month back and had taken silver in the BUCS outdoor championships in the summer stepped up to an impressive victory in a personal […]