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Dublin, Sunday 14th December 2025 – Abigail Jennings, Senior Woman, achieved a remarkable 10th place finish at the World Athletics Half Marathon Race Walk in Dublin on Sunday, 14th December. Racing against some of the best athletes globally, Abi crossed the finish line with a personal best time of 1:49:32, marking a significant milestone in … Read more
AFD had 2 representatives compete at the UKA, England Athletics and Race Walking combined 20,000m track championships, held at the Leeds Beckett Track on the 10th June. The weather offered blisteringly hot conditions, 27 degrees where Abi Jennings and Chris Snook, both first year senior athletes contend the 50 laps of the track to cover … Read more
The 19th Feb saw the 3000m Walk Indoor British Chanpionships held at Birmingham. The mens and womens championships races were held at the same time featuring Chris Snook in the mens who came 2nd in a personal best of 11 min 57.16 seconds, and Abigail Jennings in the womens who won the Ladies reace in … Read more
The Irish Championship’s and International took place on the 18th December. AFD’s Chris Snook and Abigail Jennings in the u23 category; broke personal bests by huge margins over 20km and AFD club records. Chris’s performance moved him to the UK No 2 over 20km with 87.56 this year with a brilliant 3rd place and Abigail … Read more
AFD had 2 race walking representatives the Senior British Championships, Manchester this weekend. Abigail Jennings u23 walked a solid race, good technique to Bronze in a respectable 5000m 25.26.33. Chris Snook also u23, awarded Silver in a technically perfect, returning to fitness in 21.20.14 for 5000m.
Aldershot Farnham & District’s under-15 girl runners took three titles in the Surrey Track & Field Championships, held at Kingston over the weekend. Katie Pye beat all the u17 women in the 3000 metres. Lottie Quinn and Emmeline Orbell triumphed in the 1500 and 800 metres respectively. Kitty Scott won the u13 girls’ 1500 and … Read more
Chris Snook (Aldershot Farnham & District/Leeds Beckett University, Verity Snook) and Erika Kelly (Northern AC, Isle of Man, Tom Craggs) took the first ever England Athletics Winter Race Walking Championships titles over 10,000m in challenging conditions, reports Ian Richards. Like most of the North of England on Saturday the track at Leeds Beckett University was … Read more
England Under 23 and British Championship success for AFD’s race walkers Congratulations to race walkers Chris Snook and Abi Jennings for winning Gold at the England under 23 Championships over 10,000 metres at Bedford Stadium on 20th June. The week after at the British Athletics Championships in Manchester, Abi won a Silver and Chris narrowly … Read more
Chris Smith Race Walking League 2017/18 Final Race Chris Snook (Farnborough 6th. Form) has dominated this series over the past 4 years with 13 victories. However Nick Hart (Court Moor, Fleet) and Ben Allen (Countesthorpe Leysland Community College, Leics) topped the overall boy’s league standings with a string of consistent performances around their personal bests. … Read more
Runners from Aldershot Farnham & District won six of the 1500 metres titles at the Surrey championships over the weekend. Will Barnicoat defeated Herne Hill’s Jaden Kennedy, the national under 13s’ cross country champion, in the u15 boys’ event at Kingston while Luke van Oudtshoorn (u17 men) and Eugenie Cockle (u20 women) retained titles. AFD’s … Read more