At the Surrey Combined Events and Track Relay Championships (the final County event of the season) on 7/8 September the Club’s young athletes collected handfuls of medals over the two days of relay-racing. On day one there were silver medals for Amelia Barnes, Beatrice Eminson, Lucy Whorton and Freya McAndie , who broke their own Club record in the U15 Girls 4×300m, bringing the baton home in 2:57.11. Patience Namazzi, Sofia Vinni, Ligaya Walters and Benedicta Oporum won the silver medals in the U15 Girls 4 x 100m.

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‘Let’s see what I can do,’ was 18-year old Conor Kelly’s parting shot before leaving for the European Under 20 Championships in Tampere, Finland over 8-11 August. What he really meant was only the gold in the 400m would do. After the hurt of settling for bronze at the European U18’s Championships in Slovakia last year, when he had hoped for so much more, winning in Tampere was the single thing on his mind, his whole year of training, physio and working with a dietician, geared to crossing the finishing line first. ‘I couldn’t stop smiling; it was special’ he told the Irish media clamouring for interviews and photos after he was crowned European U20 Champion.

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A bashful Anna Garnier surprised herself with a W70 World Masters Record of 6:33.46 in the Dave Clarke Mile Extravaganza on 23 July, sponsored by Lauriston Runners, in the first of fifteen races, which also saw Peter Giles set a new M80 British record, despite running with a hamstring twinge which almost forced him to withdraw.  The meeting also saw serial record-breaker Clare Elms smash her own W60 World Record by over 6 seconds to finish in 5:18.97.

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Four Club athletes headed to South Africa on 8 June for the 98th running of the iconic Comrades Marathon, the one they call ‘The Ultimate Human Race’. First staged in 1921, the essence of the race is to unite and connect people 'through a shared celebration of human perseverance and possibility', over approximately 90km between inland Pietermaritzburg and coastal Durban. The race direction alternates each year, with the Up run starting in Durban and the Down run in Pietermaritzburg. 

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For 2025 the Surrey Championships in Kingston were split even further – from two parts last year, to three this year – in a further attempt to take in all the events across the age groups without officials being subjected to too long a schedule – such huge numbers of entries has meant that in recent years the event has frequently over-run.

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A record number of runners took to the streets for the 2025 London Marathon, as London officially became the biggest marathon in the world with 56,640 finishers crossing the line in this the 45th edition of the event – among them thirty HW athletes including a strong contingent of the usual suspects from the senior road and cross country teams, some experiencing either the distance, or London, for the first time. Despite this being one of the warmest London Marathons on record, eight HW runners  finished in under 2 hours 30 minutes, with four in the top thirty of the Championship wave which led off the mass start. 

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The beauty and the beast of the 12-Stage Road Relays is the ever-present sense of jeopardy, think chess in club vests as each team plays out different strategies, alternating, in the case of the Southern Championships, long  (8.6K) and short (5K) legs over 4 hours or so of racing. Who will front-load, who will wait to pounce at the end, and where are the hidden weapons?

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Rounding off one of the Club’s most successful Indoor seasons, In the Surrey Indoor Championships at Carshalton over the weekend of 1/2 March, Ryan Facey (below left) took the gold medal in the Senior Men’s 60m, with Monae Winston-Westfield taking the bronze in the women’s event. Jamari Roper also took gold in the U13 Boys 60m, with Angel Gutierrez-Bailey coming home for the bronze. U17 Maia Heward-Mills won gold in the 60m hurdles, and silver in the 60m flat.

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At just 17, Conor Kelly took the senior 400m title at the Irish Indoor Championships in Dublin in 46.54. To put that in perspective, his time was quicker than the winning time of 46.70 run by Alex Haydock-Wilson in the UK Indoor Championships, held over the same weekend (22/23 February).

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Ankle-deep in mud, the Senior Men finished in eighth in the National Cross Country Championships on Parliament Hill on 22 February, the most iconic venue of them all.  The sight of nearly 2,000 athletes charging up the steep slope at the start of the Men’s race is one of the great moments in sport.‘

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Over the weekend of 8/9 February at the England Athletics U15/U17 U20 Indoor Championships in Sheffield the Club’s young sprint stars won two gold medals in less than five minutes.

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The Senior Men clinched an historic fifth Surrey Cross Country League title yesterday (8 February) on a bleak and misty Epsom Downs. The U13 Boys also topped their league, as did the U17 Women, while the U13 Girls, U15 Girls, and combined U15 Boys/U17 Men team were second. The Senior Women finished in an excellent eighth in this ultra-competitive league, given injuries have frequently decimated the turnout.

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Congratulations to the Senior Men who won the silver medals for the second consecutive year at the Southern Cross Country Championships at Beckenham Place Park – and to the U13 Boys who topped that with team gold, following their bronze in 2024! Full report to follow.

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A handful of the Club’s youngsters rang in the New Year with a medal haul in the Southern (SEAA) U13-U17 Indoors Championships in the familiar venue of Lee Valley over the weekend of 11/12 January.

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The Senior Men’s team edged closer to a fantastic fifth Surrey League title at West Horsley Place on 11 January, winning the third match in the picturesque setting in which they clinched the title in the last match in 2024. On this occasion they extended their lead at the top of the table to 538 points over second place Belgrave on 721.

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At the Surrey County Cross Country Championships on 4 January, there were team medals across the board for the juniors.

Benjy Street took the U20 title, with the team of three, completed by Jack Hobden (9th) and Isaac Lutaya Lutaya (14th), taking the bronze medals.

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Alex Milne led Great Britain & Northern Ireland to team bronze as he finished seventh in the IAU 100K World Championships in Bengaluru, India, on 7 December. Competing against runners from 35 countries  in temperatures which rose to around 27C by midday with around 80 per cent humidity, Alex negotiated the 2.696km opening lap, followed by a gruelling twenty loops of 4.865km in a PB of 6:43:21. It goes without saying that it is a new Club record.

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Andrew Penney won the SEAA London Cross Country Championships on Parliament Hill on 16 November, with the men's team (completed by Rhys Boorman, Tom Maloney and Joe Clark) finishing in third – a  good omen ahead of the National Championships which return to Hampstead Heath in 2025 – and all the more impressive in that many athletes were absent due to commitments to 10K races the following day

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