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Aldershot, Farnham & District’s senior women won the English 6-stage Road Relay title for the seventh consecutive year on Saturday at Sutton Coldfield. Steph Twell, on leg four, was quickest overall for the two long stages of 5.38 miles. Second quickest overall was Louise Small when, on the opener, she led home Emma Clayton of … Read more
A few AFD Vets travelled to the BMAF XC Champs at Bath University on Sunday 13th 6th March. The flat, parkland course suited the track specialists as there was scant mud to squelch through and little in the way of testing hills although the long drag on each lap caught up with some by lap … Read more
Gus Cockle won the under-20 men’s title at the UK inter counties cross country championships in Birmingham on Saturday. The Aldershot, Farnham & District runner steadily drew away from the field to finish 22 seconds ahead of Blackheath & Bromley’s Will Fuller, representing Kent. Cockle and club mate George Gathercole, who was fourteenth, formed the … Read more
Aldershot, Farnham & District’s runners came away from Saturday’s English National Cross Country Championships at Donington Park in Leicestershire with four golds, one silver and one bronze in both the individual and the team categories. The club’s senior women retained both titles. Lily Partridge eased away from Claire Duck of Leeds City during the second … Read more
Aldershot, Farnham & District topped the table in six categories of the Hampshire Cross Country League when this season’s campaign was completed on Saturday. Lucy Pygott was one of five individual trophy winners. She won the senior women’s race at Dibden Inclosure, Applemore, from Niamh Brown, the runner who had beaten her to the South … Read more
Jonny Hay became South of England cross country champion on Saturday. The Aldershot, Farnham & District runner was almost a minute ahead of Chichester’s Chris Zablocki, the American who was also second at the previous weekend’s British Athletics Cross Challenge meeting in Cardiff. Portugal’s Antonio Silva, now competing for Thames Valley Harriers, was third. Niamh … Read more
Both senior winners at the Hampshire Schools cross country championships, held in Southampton on Saturday, were runners from Aldershot, Farnham & District. Jack Boswell beat club mate Nathan Gibson to the boys’ title and Daisy D’Santos triumphed in the girls’ race. The girls’ title at the Surrey Schools champs in Reigate went to AFD’s Niamh … Read more
Louise Small and Jonny Hay, both of Aldershot, Farnham & District, were second British runners home in the senior events at the Antrim international cross country meeting on Saturday. Hay was one place behind Scottish champion Andrew Butchart when finishing seventh in a race won by Bahrain’s Aweke Ayalew who was tenth in last year’s … Read more
While last weekend was county Champs weekend there was also the televised Edinburgh international cross country great to see the AFD three of Steff Twell, Niamh Brown and Gus Cockle in action. Louise Small won the senior women’s race at the Hampshire cross country championships by nearly one and a half minutes from Guernsey Island’s … Read more
All four members of Aldershot, Farnham & District who ran in Sunday’s European cross country championships came away from the French town of Hyeres with a team medal. Steph Twell was in contention for an individual medal and she led the assault on the lead established by Sifan Hassan who had begun to tire during … Read more