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Mike Neighbour With the John Hewitt Junior Club Championships fast approaching 29th August, you need to get your entries in fast. The timetable subject to adjustments depending on entries is: THE JOHN HEWITT MEMORIAL AFD JUNIOR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS TIMETABLE (*) – straight final depending on no.s TRACK EVENTS FIELD EVENTS 10:30 100m U13 girls heats 10:15 Pole … Read more
Isobel Pooley improved her British outdoor high jump record when retaining the national title in Birmingham on Saturday. Her first-time clearance at 1m 97 was one centimetre higher than the mark she recorded last year. Silver medallist Morgan Lake of Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow, the World junior champion, had gone out of the competition … Read more
Congratulations to the following AFD athletes selected to compete for GB in the European Junior Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden on 16-19 July: Gus Cockle 5,000m Jack Rowe 10,000m Amy Griffiths 1500m Grace Baker 5,000m
Isobel Pooley achieved the qualifying standard for this year’s World Championships with a clearance of 1m 94 in the high jump at the European Team Championships. Another athlete from Aldershot, Farnham & District who recorded a season’s best in Russia at the weekend was Lily Partridge over 5000 metres. The highest placed AFD member of … Read more
AFD Quadkid team competed last night and successfully qualified for the final, placing 3rd overall. We were only 100 points off the top spot team, but our squad was missing our 3 best girls, so we should be(and are) very pleased and proud of the result. We had the highest scoring boy of the competition, … Read more
AFD are looking to forge links with their local Senior Schools supporting the PE departments with encourage participation in athletics. Farnham Heathend school have recently had a long jump pit installed following a joint funding project with the “Tootsie” nursery based on the school grounds. The school asked for AFD to be involved in the … Read more
Congratulations to Andy Vernon Isobel Pooley and Lilly Partridge who are selected to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the European Team Championships in Cheboksary, Russia on the 20-21 June 2015
Aldershot, Farnham & District won their UK Youth Development League meeting for the lower age-groups at the Aldershot Military Stadium on Saturday. Ollie Nicholson, newly crowned Hampshire champion over 100m, won both U15B sprints and opened for the club’s victorious sprint relay team in which he was joined by Henry McGoldrick, Alex Knight and Daniel … Read more
Isobel Pooley of Aldershot, Farnham & District set a meeting record of 1m 90 for the high jump at the Hampshire championships on Saturday. The silver medallist from last year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow had already claimed the championship best when clearing 1m 85, three centimetres above the mark set by another Commonwealth silver medallist … Read more
The V45 team comprising L to R Scott Smith-Bannister, Tad Dicker, Mark Symes and Darren Symes won the British Masters V45 Road Relay Championships today; a great race that went right down to the wire on the last leg with the 1st 3 teams within 100m of each other, however Scott showed his strength on the … Read more