Category: Results
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2015 County Cross Country Championships
This season’s Championships were held on Hungerford Common for the first time, with thanks going to all at Newbury A.C the host Club.
The weather conditions leading up to the event were fine but the overnight rain continued well in to the day to give the course a slippery surface.
After a slight mishap in the Men’s race where they ended up running an extra 1000m everything else went to plan, apologies for that.
222 athletes took part in the 8 races, 12 less than last season.
Thanks go to The Town & Manor of Hungerford for allowing us to use the land, and to Hungerford Rugby Club and everyone at the Triangle Field for the use of their excellent Clubhouse and facilities. Also to The John O’Gaunt School for
allowing us to use the School car park and M&M Medical Services for the First Aid Cover, and finally thank you to all the Berkshire Officials for doing a great job as usual. -
2014 UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championships
Berkshire came away from this season’s Championships with two team and two Individual medals.
Grace Goddard was always in the leading pack in the under 15 Girls race and was duly rewarded with the Silver medal. Morven Goodrum followed up her fine run at the English National with another top ten finish in 7th. With Hope Goddard 13th, and Elena Carey 54th, the team finished in second place.
Harry Digby produced a very fine run to finish 3rd in the under 13 Boys race, and with some good backing from Maxwell Cooper in 12th place, Sammy Hart 16th and Shaun Hudson 67th, the team finished runners-up.
There were also top ten finishes for Scott Halsted and Ben Priddle in the Under 20 Men’s race, being placed 7th and 8th respectively. Berkshire were just one runner short of finishing a team in both of the under 20 age group races; all the other team results are listed below.
Under 13 Girls ……. 15th / 41 Under 13 Boys ….. 2nd / 40
Under 15 Girls ……. 2nd / 40 Under 15 Boys …… 4th / 40
Under 17 Women.. 13th / 37 Under 17 Men ….. 10th / 38
Senior Women …… 26th / 32 Senior Men ………. 16th / 32
Senior Men 9 Man team were 6th.I would like to thank every athlete that ran for the County at the event, and also a big thank you to all the coaches across the County who gave me such good support with the teams both beforehand, and on the day.
Andy Tuttle
Berkshire Cross Country Team Manager -
2014 U11 FiA South East Regional SportsHall Final
With hope and expectation both running high the U11 county teams travelled to Burgess Hill. The teams were selected following performances by young athletes in both the Berkshire County League and Berkshire County Championships held through the autumn.
Both the boys and the girls team performed fantastically well. Throughout the afternoon they were incredibly well supported by parents, siblings and other supporters as Berkshire supporters once again proved themselves the loudest and most supportive in the region.
After a satisfactory start to the afternoon athletes competed in a range of field and track events with the momentum building throughout the afternoon as we began to realise the fantastic results on the track were being matched by many of the field performances.
Amongst the girls, Hope Dandjinou (Holy Family Catholics School) was placed second in both the chest push (6.00m) and the standing long jump (2.05m); Chloe Eames (RAC) was 1st= in the balance test achieving a maximum 60 second score; Emilie Richardson-Tuitt (SJAC) won the standing long jump (2.12m) and Millie Quaintance (Team Kennet) won the javelin (16.0m).
In the boys Jamie Bonella-Duke (RAC) was 3rd in the chest push (5.50m) on count back just behind Connor Rapecki (SJAC) also 5.50m.
On the track Olivia Phelps (MAC) and Sophie Hutchings won the 1+1 lap race; Olivia then paired up with Hope Dandjinou for a convincing win in the Paarlauf and the 4×1 relay team (Emilie Richardson-Tuitt; Sophie Hutchings; Madeline Barnes; Olivia Phelps) were very good with the hand-offs to take 1st place by a convincing margin.
The boys had notable success on the track completing the 1+1 lap double (Elijah Oladunjoye SJAC and Noah Walcott RAC); in the 2+2 laps (Max McGarvie SJAC and Cameron Langley Team Kennet) were second as indeed Cameron was again second when he partnered with Leon Bradshaw (RAC) in the Paarlauf. To cap a great afternoon the boys showed that they too could make some wonderful baton hand offs as they powered to victory in the 4×1 lap relay (James West; Noah Walcott; Connor Rapecki; Elijah Oladunjoye) – noticed by a number of other team managers who made the point of complimenting the boys on their baton changes and the overall performance.
At the end of the afternoon the boys were placed 2nd overall, behind Kent and ahead of Surrey whilst the girls were 3rd behind Kent and Bucks.
A special mention must be made of the parents and other supporters at Burgess Hill and also to Olivia and Francesca (SJAC), who officiated through the afternoon. They were all equally brilliant in the support they gave in making it a memorable afternoon for everyone.