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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
Kitty Scott led a trio of Aldershot Farnham & District’s runners to the most emphatic team victory of the day as she won the under-13 girls’ race by more than half a minute (also the biggest margin of the day) at the latest meeting of the Hampshire Cross Country League. Katie McBride finished third and … Read more
Aldershot Farnham & District’s runners came away from Beckenham with four sets of team gold medals in the South of England Cross Country Championships on Saturday. The senior women’s margin of victory was by far the biggest of the day and featured an individual gold for Georgie Bruinvels and bronze for Niamh Brown. Kate … Read more
Another great day for AFD Sportshall young athletes on Saturday 21 January. The under 11 girls continued their winning streak and the under 11 boys finishing in 2nd place. Some brilliant club debuts and most importantly everyone had a great time. Results are here: https://www.hampshireathletics.org.uk/events/sh_league.html Thanks to team managers Mike Simpson and George Taylor, as well … Read more
The Irish Championship’s and International took place on the 18th December. AFD’s Chris Snook and Abigail Jennings in the u23 category; broke personal bests by huge margins over 20km and AFD club records. Chris’s performance moved him to the UK No 2 over 20km with 87.56 this year with a brilliant 3rd place and Abigail … Read more
AFD s Will Barnicoat won the European Cross Country Champioships at Piedmonte, Italy. Will outsprinted the Irish athlete Nicholas Griggs to win by one second also leading the British team to team victory. Two other AFD members ran at the European Cross Country Championship both in the Senior mens race Ellis Cross who finished 37th … Read more