Local results are often printed in the Brighton Argus on Tuesdays, or the Sports Argus on Saturday (evenings). Other results can be found in Athletics weekly, on race-results or on individual club / race websites.
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British & Irish Masters Cross Country Champs |
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2nd place for Nigel Gates, representing England at the British & Irish Masters CC Champs in Swansea (Saturday 14th Nov. 2008), with the English team taking the first 3 places in the v55s race. Sussex Athletics Write Up |
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Junior Boys Start the Season Well at Goodwood |
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The Brighton & Hove Junior boys put in good performances at a rain soaked Goodwood. This year's Sussex Cross Country Relays were run in near horizontal rain. The team put out a total of 17 boys across the age groups up to Under 17 level. First off were the Under 13's. With only 2 of the six boys having the experience of racing County cross country courses before, we knew it would be a steep learning curve. The A team of Harry Sullivan (11mins 57 sec for the 2.8K course), Lewis Sides (11.57) and Jamie Oliver (10.44) came 5th in a combined time of 34min 38sec. The B team did even better James Hobbs (11.42), Stephen Ferroni (11.10) and Tom Poole (10.36) finished in a joint time of 33min 28sec to gain the bronze medal position.
 The three Under 13 B Team Boys with their Bronze Medals
The Under 15 age group had the strongest turn out for Brighton & Hove showing. Over a third of the boys in the 2.8K three leg race were wearing the red and black hoops. The A team of Liam Hurley (9.29), Jake Elliott (10.08) and Tom Wilmot (9.29) won Gold in 29mins 06 seconds, an impressive 1min 12 seconds ahead of Chichester in second place. Liam and Tom ended up in a three way tie with Jamie Moore from Chichester for the individual silver. The B team of Mo Morsi (10.28), Sean Goodier (11.09) and Ian Crowe-Wright (10.14) came in 4th. The Noakes twins of Charlie (10.46) and Harvey (11.09) also ran well.
The Winning Under 15 A Team Collecting Their Medals The Under 17 boys of Will Gray (13.46), Chris Woolcott (14.43) and Kieren Silsby (13.49) came 4th in a closely fought 4K race. They ran in 14 seconds behind the first Sussex team from Lewes and 13 seconds behind Hastings. An excellent start to the XC season. |
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Sussex Cross Country Relays - When is a win not a win? |
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Senior Men The Men's 2008 Sussex Cross Country relay championships proved to be eventful even before the race had started. James McCarthy had been involved in a car accident on the way to the course, fortunately he escaped with only cuts and bruises. With James who was due to run second leg unavailable, the Brighton team had to make a decison about who to replace him with in the team. It was decided that rather than compromise the U17 and Vets teams chances of medals by taking one of their runners, Andy Donno would run two legs. This would mean that the Brighton team weren't eligilble for the Sussex Championships but did at least mean they could be competitive. On the first leg Andy Donno set off at a relaxed pace as the some of the less experienced youngsters pushed the pace at the front. Going into the long descent through the woods Andy was outside the top ten, but by the time the athletes re-appeared up the steep hill from the woods he was third. At this stage the gap to Robbie James of Lewes and James Baker of Chichester was about 15 seconds. Andy set to work on closing the gap around the final field and a perfectly judged leg meant he passed James in the final 100m and cut the defecit to Robbie to two seconds to record 12:27. Chris took over from Andy on second leg and immediately dropped back to third as Harry Richardson of Chichester set about catching Josh Burgess of Lewes. The gap was growing as the runners descended into the woods but Chris was running relaxed and keeping his head. When the Chris came back up the hill there was no sign of the Lewes and Chichester runners and he extended his lead over Chichester to 48 seconds to finish in 12:46. The gap to Finn McNally of Phoenix at this stage was over a minute. Dan Titheradge took over on the third leg and as the runners re-appeared from the woods it was Dan Stepney of Phoenix who was in pursuit. The gap at one stage was down to about 25 seconds but over the final field Dan pulled away again to hand over to Andy Donno with a 48 second lead. Andy was having one of those days where you just run fast for fun and he set off calmly as everyone wondered how much that 12.27 first leg had taken out of his legs. It seemed a long time before the runners came back into the view having descended into the woods. Josh Guilmant of Phoenix had taken a chunk out of the Brighton lead which was now 15 seconds. Thankfully Andy had enough energy left and was able to maintain the gap to the finish clocking another good time of 12.53. It was an exciting race in the end and the Brighton team left feeling like they had won, albeit without the Sussex medals! |
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Juniors at the SEAA Road Relays at Aldershot |
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'The under 15 and 17 boys put teams in for the SEAA Road Relays at Aldershot on Sunday 28th September. The Indian Summer weather on the day made condition much warmer than in the past.
Both teams had suffered difficulties during the weeks building up to the event with boys having to pull out due to injuries. The under 17 ended up running two of the four legs, Chris Woolcott had suffering a sprained ankle a couple of days before the race so did not travel and Will Brouwer travelled to Aldershot but was sidelined with an aggrivation of his foot injury.
James McCarthy ran a steady first leg on returning from a preseason break. Macca finished a creditable 25th in a time of 13:00 for the 4K, Kieran Silsby completed the duo's efforts with a fine 13:54 time to leave us 26th of the 44 teams who had 2 or more runners.
The under 15's put out a full team. Tom Wilmot got the boys off to a flyer with a time of 10:02 for the 3 K putting us in 11th place and finishing with the 19th fastest U15 boys time of the day. Jake Elliott was next up, he followed his recent good training performances with a 10:35 time to keep Brighton & Hove in 12th place. Liam Hurley ran the third leg. Liam finished with the second fastest time when he ran the same race last year as a U13. Unfortunately Liam got a stitch with about 1 K to go and finished with a time of 10:58 to put us 17th. Sean Goodier ran the anchor leg. Although Sean has just come up from the U13's he performed well at the U 15 level to bring the boys home 22nd of the 37 teams that finished.  Left to right. Tom Wilmot, Liam Hurley, Sean Goodier, Jake Elliott, Kieran Silsby and Will Brouwer. |
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'Brighton Birthday Boys' track 10K |
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All,
I'm delighted to be able to say that the 'Brighton Birthday Boys' track
10,000m went ahead very successfully on Fri 22nd August in lovely evening
sunshine and with only a slight wind down the finishing straight.
There was real quality at the sharp end and a good turn out from a range
of Brighton runners
Also excellent support for the time-keeping and lap recording so thanks
so much to all who turned up and ran or assisted
Results have been sent to Athletics Weekly so I hope they will be
captured and reported next week. I'm hoping that this may well become
an annual event on or around this same date so watch this space
Best wishes
Tom Ulliott Men
1 - James Baker - Chichester - SM - 31:35
2 - Josh Painter - B&H City AC -SM - 33.24
3 - Shaun Billing - B&H City AC -VM40 - 35.52
4 - Tom Ulliott - B&H City AC -VM50 - 37.13
5 - Mark Halls - B&H City AC -VM45 - 37.56
6 - Neil Walford - B&H City AC -VM40 - 39.53
7 - Dave Whittle - B&H City AC -VM40 - 41.28
8 - Kevin Bush - B&H City AC -VM45 - 41.43
9 - Mike Airey - B&H City AC - VM55 - 49.04
Women
1 - Cathy Ulliott - B&H City AC -VF40 - 41.26
5,000m
Tom Fallon - B&H City AC - VM55 - 22:22 |
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