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Good luck to AFD athletes Chris Thompson and Steph Twell who head of to compete in the Marathon at the Tokyo Olympics. Steph in the Women’s Marathon on the 7th August at 07:00 local time. Chris in the Men’s Marathon on the 8th August also at 07:00 local time
England Under 23 and British Championship success for AFD’s race walkers Congratulations to race walkers Chris Snook and Abi Jennings for winning Gold at the England under 23 Championships over 10,000 metres at Bedford Stadium on 20th June. The week after at the British Athletics Championships in Manchester, Abi won a Silver and Chris narrowly … Read more
Alice run and won won the UK Under 20 Championship on Saturday 12 June at Watford in a time of 16 min 27.84 seconds, well inside the qualifying time of 16 min 40 seconds for the European Championships and thus has automatics selection for the European Under 20 Championships in Estonia on July 18th. Well … Read more
Jack had a great run in the 1st round of the 3000m in the European Indoor Championships in Turon, Poland on the 6th March. Jack took the lead after 7 laps of the 15 laps and was only passed in the last lap by 2 athletes. Jacks 3rd place give him an alternmatic qualification for … Read more
Congratulations to the following AFD athletes who have been selected to compete for GB at the World Athletics Championships in Doha Steph Twell – 10,000m on 28th September at 19:10 UK time Charlotte Purdue – Marathon on 27th September at 21:59 UK time Amy Allcock – Mixed 4x400m Relay Heats on 28th September at 18:00 … Read more
AFDs Anna Moller representing her native Denmark won both 5000m in 15:07.70 and the 3000m Steeplechasein 9:27.31 on cosecutive days at the Under 23 Championshipsat in Gavle, Sweden.
Steph Twell on winning the 10,000 Night of PBs in a time of 31:08.13 not only became British Champions, qualified for the Doha World Championships, moved to 6th on the UK all time list and broke the AFD record. Congratulations Steph on a fantastic race.
Mark Symes won V50 800m easily in a seasons best of 2.02.14 David Haines also from GB took the pace on for the first 300 with Mark staying out of trouble in 4th, Mark then caught David and cruised past taking the 2nd half of the race unchallenged and put a final kick in with … Read more
End of Season Update (Track) As the track season comes to a close and the cross country season starts, a roundup of the final track results for August and September. South of England U15/U17 Championships (inc Walks) Lee Valley 11-12 August 2018 Several athletes made the journey round the M25 to compete in the South … Read more
Mark Symes came 4th in a time off 2min 02.25seconds in the World Master 800m Championships over 45. To qualify for the final Mark Symes won the semi final in 2min 0073seconds knocking 2 secs off his PB He also won his heat in 2.04. After Marks exploits over 800m he followed up by becoming … Read more