A wonderful team effort by the Crawley athletes saw them finish second, to Sale, last weekend at Bedford, but they were the winners of the League to gain promotion to the Premiership for next season.
Covid changed the National Athletics League which had always separate the sexes in the British Athletics League but now the sexes combine, as they do in the Southern and Youth Development Leagues.
The Sale club won the final match of the season but Crawley still managed to win the League title by two clear points having built up good lead during the season but it was team spirit that made Crawley victorious. Ironically, the Sussex team did with the help of other Sussex club athletes and it seems without providing a single individual “A string” winner.
Jo Rowland, played a major part in this success winning silver and bronze medals placings with 11.16m in the triple jump, for second place a 13.51m shot putt for third place and also a fourth place in the javelin throw. Nearly matching Jo’s efforts was Lewes athlete Livvy Connor with third place in the pole vault by clearing 3.43m and another third place in long jump with 5.61m and clearing 1.63m for fourth place in the high jump.
Matt Lasis topped the fifty metre mark in the hammer throw with 50.72m which saw him in second place and another Matt, Overall, finished second in the 400m in 48.50s and Brighton & Hove’s Thomas Niner clocking 1:54.76s for second in the 800m. Adam Dray (Phoenix) appears to be the only “B” winner taking the 800m in 1:53.20s.
Amongst the third place, athletes a double bronze for Dillan Tierney leaping 1.93m in the high jump and 3.93m in the pole vault and the young Tim Essan who locked 10.72s in the 100m, Holly Gregory 12.34s in the women’s short sprint and also finished fourth in the 400m in 56.51s for fourth place and Cara Anderson who clocked 4:33.71s in the 1500m