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.
Read MoreAt 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).
Read MoreAnkle-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.‘
Read MoreOver 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreCongratulations 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreAlex 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.
Read MoreAndrew 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
Read MoreThe second Surrey Cross Country League match at Beckenham Place Park on 10 November saw the Men's team notch up a second match win, following the victory on Wimbledon Common, scoring 199 points to second place Belgrave's 263, to stretch their lead at the top of the League table to 115 points with two more matches to go in the new year.
Read MoreThe U17 Men’s team of Noah Fernandez, Alex McGuigan and Pancho Panchev were victorious at the South of England Cross-Country Relays at Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday, 19 October, finishing 12 seconds clear of second-placed Chiltern Harriers over the 3km (approx) course.
Read MoreThe Senior Men’s team got off to a great start in defence of their Surrey Cross Country League title on Wimbledon Common on Saturday. All ten scorers finished in the top thirty to top the leaderboard with 153 points over Belgrave Harriers in second, with 204, on what was home ground for both Clubs. As always , the key to success in these races is turning out in numbers, and forty Club athletes duly answered the call to compete.
Read MoreWhere there are medals to be won you will inevitably find the unstoppable U13 Boys. Having claimed the National Cross Country title only a week earlier, the team were triumphant again at the Southern Road Relays at Rushmore Arena, Aldershot, on 21 September, albeit with a slightly different line-up as the age groups returned to normal. This time the victory went to the A team of Ivan Derian, Thomas Hennigan and Max Harrison, whose storming finish saw him record the second quickest final stage of the day. The same trio then went on to take the silver medals at the National Road Relays in Sutton Park, nr. Birmingham on 5 October.
Read MoreThe Club enjoyed its best results of recent times at the National Cross Country Championships at Weston Park, Staffordshire, on Saturday, with victory for the U13 Boys, led home by Theo Creed, who took the individual title in an impressive show of front-running – the first individual medal for the Club since Jeina Mitchell took the U15 Girls title in 1990. The U17 Men’s team won bronze medals, led in by Benjy Street, who was an excellent 16th, while the Senior Men finished fifth, the highest placing since the team of 1974 finished in bronze medal position (the team of 1970 were silver medallists).
Read MoreThe Club’s Masters athletes made history on 31 August at Horspath, Oxford when not only did the Men’s and Women’s teams both qualify for the Vets League Finals for the first time, but the women’s team clinched victory – by half a point! The Final was the culmination of a brilliant season in which both teams won every match in their League, and notched up 87 personal bests and 77 season’s bests along the way!
Read MoreTwo of the Club's athletes were invited into the spotlight at the UK Championships in Manchester on 30 June, in which the competition in every discipline ramped up as the event doubled as the trials for the Olympic Games in Paris.
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