European Athletics Youth Championships – Tbilisi 2016

At the first staging of the European Youth Championships in Tbilisi Lucy Pygott of AFD running in the Under 18 3000m got the Bronze medal in a personnal best time of 9 minutes  28.15 seconds.  Congratulations Lucy

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Hants Schools years 7 and 8

Ryan Martin set a new championship best to win the under-13 boys’ 1000 metres at the Hampshire Schools’ years 7 & 8 champs in Southampton last week  His time of 3 mins 00.2 was three tenths quicker than the mark … Read More

3 AFD Athletes are Rio Bound

Congratulations to the following AFD athletes selected to represent GB at the Olympics:

10,000  Andy Vernon to be held on 13 August

5,000 Steph Twell qualification 16th August Final 19th August

10,000 Jess Andrews to be held on 12 August

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European champs and English Schools

Steph Twell became the first British runner to take a medal in the women’s 5000 metres at the European championships when finishing third behind Turkey’s Yasemin Can (a former Kenyan) and Meraf Bahta (a former Eritrean) in Amsterdam on Saturday.

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