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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
On a blustery Sunday AFD attended the London Open Walks where the squad took the team titles for Senior and Junior Women and the overall Reg Jacobs Trophy awarded for the greatest accumulation of points for all competitions finished in one team. First out was u11 Megan Packett who won her race with a massive … 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
AFD had 5 athletes competing at the Senior & U20 South of England Indoor Championships at Lee Valley where Amy Allcock, Sofie Kent and Montana Jones all picked up silvers. Amy Allcock clocked a speedy 24.61 secs for 2nd in her 200m, Montana Jones ran a seasons best of 2.12.11 to take 2nd in the 800m and Sofie Kent ran … 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
Saturday 16th January was icy cold Sutcliffe park, East London the AFD race walking team competed in the 2016 Southern Championships. First races combined all young age groups, where AFD dominated the medal positions. Racer of the day is difficult to choose – I think there were several outstanding performances however, three notable … 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