AFD at England Under 23 and British Championships

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

Alice Garner – UK Under 20 Champion 5000m

Alice run and won won the UK Under 20 Championship on Saturday 12 June at Watford in a time of 16 min 27.84 seconds, well inside the qualifying time of 16 min 40 seconds for the European Championships and thus has automatics selection for the European Under 20 Championships in Estonia on July 18th. Well … Read more

Tommo books his ticket to Olympics

Chris Thompson booked his place in the UK Olympic team to compete in Tokyo betwen the 23 July and 8 August 2021. Chris lined up for the UK marathon trial at Kew Gardens on the 26th March 2021. The selection policy was automatic selection to the first 2 runners if they achieved the qualifying time … Read more

March Newsletter

Please see the latest newsletter summarising what has been an exceptional few weeks for the club with many excellent performances across a wide range of athletic disciplines. Thanks to those that submitted results, reports and photos. More of these please, as we know we miss results with so many races and club fixtures taking place … Read more

Sportshall League AFD triumph

The U13 boys outclassed other Hampshire teams to win 1st place in Havant on 1st March at the final Sportshall match with individual performances from Will Bryant 1st, Joshua Mortimer 2nd, Vidal Pinto 3rd and Archie Ellis 5th. The U11 boys clinched 2nd place team rankings beating 19 teams overall with Charlie Manley taking 3rd … Read more

British Indoor Championships

While a large contingent from AFD were at Nottingham for the English Cross Country Championships a small contigent traved to Glasgow for the British Indoor Championshipsand came away with following results: Amy Griffiths 4th in the 1500, Abi Jennings winning the Walk, Dan Howells 5th in the 800m.

AFD Triumphant at National Cross Country

Anna Moller led a quartet of runners from Aldershot Farnham & District to the senior women’s title as should took individual gold in the National Cross Country Championships at Nottingham’s Wollaton Park on Saturday.  The Dane, who successfully defended her European under-23 crown in December, was soon at the head of the field where she … Read more

Hampshire Sportshall League 2020

Match 3, held at the end of January, produced fantastic results for AFD with 1st and 2nd place team rankings and 1st and 3rd place individual performance rankings against 8 Hampshire Clubs and over 212 competitors. U13 boys continued their lead beating Winchester and Southampton to remain ranked 1st place with individual results in 1st, … Read more