Aldershot Farnham & District’s runners took half of the team titles from the Surrey Cross Country Championships on Sunday. These included some of the most emphatic during the day in Dorking. Their trio of scorers finished in the top four of the under 17 women’s race. Sabrina Coppola Johansen won from Tilly Robertson and Katie Ealden completed the rout. The club’s quartet of u13 girls was led home by individual champion Isabel Goodey de Diego who was followed by bronze medallist Evie Jones, Koko O’Neill, who was sixth, and Emily Walmsley, eighth.
Another race in which AFD provided both the individual and team champions was the u15 girls’. Poppy Guest successfully defended her title ahead of Naomi Walmsley who took the silver medal while Amelie Sowerby was eleventh and Kitty Dover 22nd. Two other members of the club, Seb Bryce (u13 boys) and Katie Pye (u20 women), retained titles. Individual silver medallists headed two more team victories. Georgie Bruinvels led home Harriet Preedy, fifth, Emily Wicks, ninth, and Sophie Vallis, nineteenth, in the senior women’s event. Williiam Smith led home u20 men’s colleagues Ollie Russell, fourth, and Alex Bishop, sixth, for another emphatic win.
Kate Estlea-Morris retained her Hampshire senior title while leading Aldershot Farnham & District to victory in the team competition at Botley on Saturday. She hit the front soon after the start and finished 1 minute 37 seconds clear of the rest. Emma Stevens was sixth, Ruth Wallace eighth and Jessica Hayward 28th for a two-point advantage over Winchester Running Club. The team scores of the two clubs were even closer in the under 20 men’s event as individual silver medallist Onjoro Sumba led Dylan Poulton, sixth, and Joao Otto de Souza, ninth, to AFD’s one-point triumph. There were two more individual winners from AFD: Luca Hamblen (senior men) and Julia Smykala (u17 women).