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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
Congratulations to the following AFD athletes selected to compete for GB in the European Junior Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden on 16-19 July: Gus Cockle 5,000m Jack Rowe 10,000m Amy Griffiths 1500m Grace Baker 5,000m
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
AFD are looking to forge links with their local Senior Schools supporting the PE departments with encourage participation in athletics. Farnham Heathend school have recently had a long jump pit installed following a joint funding project with the “Tootsie” nursery based on the school grounds. The school asked for AFD to be involved in the … 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
2-4 May 2015 – BUCS Several AFD athletes competed at Bedford over the Bank Holiday weekend in their various university colours collecting 2 golds, 1 silver and 2 bronzes. Amy Griffiths took gold in the 1500m with Lily Partridge picking up bronze not far behind. Louise Small picked up silver over the 5000m and Jonathan … Read more
Congratulations to Andy Vernon on winning 10K at the Payton Jordon Invitational at Standford, California in a time of 27min 42.62seconds well inside the Rio Qualification Standards of 28 mins. In the womens 5K Steph Twell ran 15min 13.82 inside the Rio Olympic qualifing time of 15min 20seconds.