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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
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
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
AFD travelled to Braunton with 5 women and 4 men and finished 4th overall. The women’s team included: Sarah-Jane Anthony who did hammer, discus and shot, despite being injured! Ellen Franklin who ran the 100, 200 (which she got a PB in), the 400 and did the LJ Georgina Darnell 100, 200, 400, LJ Lindsay … Read more
The National 20km & YAG Championships combined with the Southern Championships on Saturday 18th April, 2015 saw a good set of results with 2 PBs in blustery, warm conditions. AFD for the first time in many years fielded an athlete in every age group. First out was Nick Hart in the u13 2km where he … Read more
An Aldershot, Farnham & District runner led at the end of all six stages at Saturday’s national road relay championships for the club’s sixth consecutive women’s title. Comparisons with previous performances at Sutton Coldfield, the venue since 2000, were rendered irrelevant by the introduction of two long legs and the lengthening of the shorter. The … Read more
Emelia Gorecka ran the fastest time of the day when she anchored Aldershot, Farnham & District to a successful defence of the women’s six-stage title in the South of England road-relay championships at Milton Keynes on Sunday. AFD were third at the halfway point after legs by Olivia Lucas, Gabi Eglen and Katie Bingle but … Read more