As always the New Year opens with the major county cross-country championships and again these are being held at Bexhill Down on Saturday. The weather has not been kind to us in the last couple of weeks and the rain will make the almost permanently muddy course even more testing. However the conditions will do […]
Roger Wardale
It is with great regret that we have to report the death of Roger Wardale at the age of 78. Until the past few years Roger had been one of the Counties leading sprints coaches but was one of the longest serving Coaches, official and administrators in the county. In his active days at Bognor […]
Run-a-way wins in Preston Park.
Ian Richards from Steyning notched his fifth successive victory in the Boxing Day race walk in Preston Park, Brighton and Brighton & Hove’s eighteen year old Stephen Ferroni won his fourth running title. Ferroni, who became the youngest ever winner in 2012, chalked up the largest ever margin of victory as he romped away from […]
Boxing Day races.
After more than eighty years the Boxing Day races, the longest running road race in Sussex, will go ahead as usual this coming Saturday starting at 10.20am. In the early 1930s it was started by Jack Davis, the then Athletics reporter of the then Sussex Daily News as well as the Evening Argus and it […]
Silver for Beth
Crawley’s Beth Crocker struck silver at the South of England Indoor combined events championships at Lee Valley at the weekend with series of fine efforts. With a 60m hurdles in 9.68s a high jump of 1.62m shot put of 10.09m, a long jump of 5.43m and fine 800m clocking of 2:26.5s Crocker amassed 3486 points […]
Silvers for Ferroni and Taylor at South of Thames – Large field for Alf Palmer
A brilliant run from Stephen Ferroni saw him join an elite band of Sussex runners who have won a medal in the South of Thames Senior Cross-country championship at Tonbridge on Saturday. The eighteen year old Brighton & Hove runner is certainly the youngest Sussex runner to get amongst the medals in this classy 7.5-mile […]