England Cross Country Championships
Will Barnicoat won the junior men’s title at the English National Cross Country Championships and led Aldershot Farnham & District’s runners to the team title at Parliament Hill Fields, London on Saturday. He surged away from the opposition on the second lap of the ten-kilometre race to win by eleven seconds from David Stone of Shaftesbury Barnet, one of his predecessors as under-17s champion. Joe Blacknell finished nineteenth, Woody Jerome 31st and Alastair Rushforth 49th to give AFD victory over silver medallists Chesterfield & District. The junior women were also victorious. Fourth-placed Alice Garner, Pippa Roessler (thirteenth) and Ruby Horton (48th) beat Tonbridge into second.
Kitty Scott was third in the u13 girls’ event and gained another medal when team mates Maya Jobbins, 24th, Tilly Robertson, 28th, and Charlotte Mitchell, 55th, helped her to silver in the team competition. Another set of silver medals went to the club’s senior women: Niamh Brown, fifth, Nancy Scott, eleventh, Louise Small, fourteenth, and Lauren Hall, 31st. AFD’s senior men (Ben Bradley, Sam Eglen, Lasse Eini, Stephen Blake, George Gathercole and Bryn Smith) and u15 boys (Owen Smith, Nathanael Rushforth, Jacob Pearce and Rafferty Herd) both came tenth. Katie Pye was eighth in the u15 girls’ event.
Sorry about the lack of photos, I had a camera malfunction
British Indoors – Birmingham
Chris Snook, off the back of English 10,000m track champion 2 weeks ago, today demonstrated a technically strong win at the British Indoor Championships 3,000m walk held on 27th February in Birmingham with a PB 12.27.27 dominating the race. Whereas Abigail Jennings, had a harder challenge racing in a tight pack for the medals. Abi stuck with the group, working and battled hard, was the strongest technically finished in a photo finish just outside the medals with a huge PB in 14.24.72
Well done both to all AFD athletes who competed.
