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The England Athletics Under 20 and Under 23 Championships on the 18th June at Chelmsford saw AFD dominate both the male 5000m races. James Dargan won the Under 20 race in a time of 14min 37.58 which earned him automatic selection to the European Athletics Under 20 Championships to be held in Jerusalam, 7th to … Read more
AFD had 2 representatives compete at the UKA, England Athletics and Race Walking combined 20,000m track championships, held at the Leeds Beckett Track on the 10th June. The weather offered blisteringly hot conditions, 27 degrees where Abi Jennings and Chris Snook, both first year senior athletes contend the 50 laps of the track to cover … Read more
After 45 years Steve has handed over as Treasurer to Kate Haynes. Picture is of Mick Woods (AFD President) presenting Steve with a plaque to commemorate his retirement
AFD started the race well – with Josh Grace running his usual classy first leg – bringing us home in 5th, behind teams who wouldn’t feature in the top 5 overall, but crucially ahead of our main title challengers. Joe O’Connell – youngest in the squad at only 18 was next out – and ran … Read more
Aldershot Farnham & District runner Kitty Scott took the individual bronze medal in the under-13 girls’ race at the UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championships as she led a Surrey quartet that included two of her club mates, Tilly Robertson and Katie McBride, to the silver medals in the team competition at Loughborough on Saturday. … Read more
The top cross country runners made there way to Bolesworth Castle on Saturday 25th Feb, including a large contingent from AFD. While the athletes performed extremly well, the AFD chair had a camera malfuction so this report has only a few pictures European junior cross country champion Will Barnicoat retained his national title as he … Read more
Aldershot Farnham & District’s runners came away from the finale of the Hampshire Cross Country League with six team and four individual titles. The senior women sealed their title with victory on the day as Pippa Roessler won the individual race with Katie Hughes sixth and Anna Hedley twelfth. Roessler and Hedley were the first … Read more
Under 11 girls won all 4 of the sports hall matches this season winning the overall trophy for the 2022/23 season. The successful season for the clubs young athletes also saw individual medal wins for Kylin Simpson, Scarlett Taylor, Rafe Susio and Ollie Bryant. In addition seven AFD young athletes were selected to represent Hampshire … Read more
The 19th Feb saw the 3000m Walk Indoor British Chanpionships held at Birmingham. The mens and womens championships races were held at the same time featuring Chris Snook in the mens who came 2nd in a personal best of 11 min 57.16 seconds, and Abigail Jennings in the womens who won the Ladies reace in … Read more
AFD members who competed at the British Masters Indoor Championships at Sheffield on the 19 Feb 2023 gained the following medals: Allan Leiper M60 Shot Put – Gold Pole Vault – Silver Kelly Roberts W50 400m – Silver – New indoor PB Dan Acheson M40 800m – Bronze 1500m – Bronze Eni Font Freide W60 … Read more