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Mike Neighbour It is with regret that AFD announces the death of John Lofts President of AFD. John died peacfully in his sleep on the night of the 20th November. The funeral will take place at 12:15 on Friday the 12th December at Aldershot Crematorium GU12 4BP and afterwards for refreshments at the Royal British Legion, 51 … Read more
I have 3 guaranteed entries to the London Marathon (runner have to pay their entry fee). If any AFD runners are interested let me know by the 19th December, I will then do a random draw to decide who gets the places. Mike Neighbour mike_jillneighbour@hotmail.com
AGM Notice is hereby given that the Annual General meeting of Aldershot Farnham and District Athletics Club will be held on at 7.00pm, 8th December 2014 at the Willems Park, Brewers Fayre, Aldershot.
Aldershot, Farnham & District’s senior women retained their title at the English cross country relay championships in Mansfield. Lily Partridge, the only member who was also in last year’s winning trio, again led home the runners on the first leg. Georgie Bruinvels was overtaken by Birchfield’s Danielle Hodgkinson who had started less than four seconds … Read more
Ron Hill Sports sponsors AFD and with Ron himself having been inducted in to the English Athletics Hall of Fame on the 18th October 2014 I thought members might like to know more about the man. The biography below was that used at the induction of Ron. Congratulations Ron
Results of the Chris Smith Postal Walks League can be found on the link below: [gview file=”https://www.afd.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014-Chris-Smith-Postal-League-1-.docx”]
Aldershot, Farnham & District won both senior road relay titles at the national championships on Saturday, repeating a feat achieved in 2011. No other club has managed this double in nearly twenty years at Sutton Coldfield. AFD’s women provided the three fastest runners. Steph Twell was the fastest when putting them ahead on the second … Read more
Another fantastic weekend for AFD at our Rushmoor Arena. The organisation done by AFD was first class as was the athletics. Aldershot, Farnham & District retained both senior titles in the South of England road-relay running championships at the weekend. They also took three of the six young athletes’ races at Rushmoor Arena. It was … Read more
The first John Hewitt Memorial AFD Junior Club Championships held at the Military Stadium on Sunday the 7th September were a fantastic success. Johns mum wrote the following: Would you please convey my sincere thanks to everyone who attended the Memorial Meeting yesterday. I would like to particularly thank all of those who put … Read more
The u15 3000m walk and u17 5000m walk were combined as a straight final. There were three AFD representatives who had all qualified for this prestigious event, Tim Snook and Colin Zack in u17 5000m and Chris Snook in 3000m u15. The race was contested by both male and female competitors with representatives present from … Read more