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Four members of Aldershot, Farnham & District will be running for Britain at the European cross country championships in France on Sunday. Steph Twell was third in the trial behind Gemma Steel of Charnwood and Kate Avery of Shildon, the two athletes who battled to the line for the senior women’s title in Bulgaria last … Read more
‘Two AFD members recently represented England in the British and Irish Masters Cross-Country International at Santry Park in Dublin on 14th November 2015. Scott Smith-Bannister (5015) finished 5th in the M50 category whilst Austin Soane (6018) finished 9th in the M60 race on his international debut. Both athletes collected team medals with the M50s winning … Read more
Aldershot, Farnham & District’s under-13 boys took the gold and silver medals at the English cross country relays on Saturday but it was the club’s B team runner, Bailey Roberts, who set off on the anchor leg in the lead. His side had always been in the frame, thanks to Ed Henderson, third on the … Read more
Steph Twell finished second in the Antrim international cross country meeting on Saturday, between two Ethiopians: Birtukan Fente Alemu and Birtukan Adamu. Her Aldershot, Farnham & District club mate Louise Small was eighth. Another AFD runner, Jack Rowe, came fourth in the junior men’s race. On the same day, in Blackburn, Niamh Brown and Daisy … Read more
Tim Snook was included In the recently announced England Race Walking team for EAA permit team going to Podebrady, Czech Republic on 11th April more details at: http://www.englandathletics.org/england-athletics-news/selections-announced-for-european-race-walks# UK Athletics have announced the cross country runners who will be representing GB at the World Cross Country Championships in Guiyang, China on Saturday 28 March.(http://www.britishathletics.org.uk/media/news/2015-news-page/march-2015/12-03-15-world-cross-team/) 3 … Read more
A fortnight after claiming the English cross country crown, Lily Partridge retained her British inter counties title in Birmingham on Saturday. The Aldershot, Farnham & District runner proved the stronger in a duel with Winchester & District’s Louise Damen, her immediate predecessor as champion, finishing three seconds clear. Third-placed Sarah Astin of Lancashire was almost … Read more
Lily Partridge was crowned English cross country champion in London on Saturday. She thus joins a list of runners that includes her mother who won the title for Aldershot, Farnham & District as Ruth Smeeth. Partridge took control during the second and larger of the two laps around Parliament Hill Fields and completed the eight-kilometre … Read more
Aldershot, Farnham & District’s women came third in the European Clubs Cross Country Championships, held in Spain on Sunday. The best team performance in AFD history, and the best British club performance for many years. They also had the third individual runner, Lily Partridge, plus Steph Twell in fourth . Partridge crossed the line … Read more
Saturday’s South of England cross country championships featured a duel for the junior women’s title between two runners from Aldershot, Farnham & District. Amy Griffiths, the English Schools’ champion, and Grace Baker, winner of the Home Countries international at the end of last season, soon went clear of the rest and remained together until the … Read more
