Ben Connor bridged an 11-year-gap between titles to win the Northern Athletics’ Senior Men’s Cross Country crown at muddy Knowsley Safari Park, writes Trevor Baxter. But only 12 months after claiming the senior women’s accolade at Witton Park, Blackburn, Claire Duck returned to the Championships to defend her senior women’s title. Both winners made running […]
On a wet and cold November day an inter area match minus the South and Midlands was not dampened with a close fought competition which saw the North and Scotland share the spoils. The results below reflect inter area positions, but all areas competed well, with Wales Dewi Griffiths taking 2nd in the Senior men’s […]
Northern Athletics team manager Rob Cameron has selected four strong teams for the match against Scotland and Wales at the Sefton Park Cross Challenge on the 28th November 2015. This fixture which also incorporates the trial for GB team for the European cross country championships which are being held at Toulon-Hyères in France next month […]
Douglas, Isle of Man – Saturday 7th March 2015 This took place in conjunction with the Ascot Hotel Open Meeting, organized by Manx Harriers. Conditions on the traffic-free road circuit surrounding the National Sports Centre were very cold and extremely windy ! As is usual for this fixture a strong Irish contingent were present under […]
On a warm May morning in Manchester , the North of England field two strong teams to win both the men’s and women’s inter-area home fixture. Thanks again to Nova and Tom Broadbent and Peter Riley for invite us to host our home fixture in this classy race. The men’s race was won by Kenenisa […]
Leeds City AC retained their Northern 12-Stage Road Relay title at Heaton Park . Pre-race favourites Leeds enjoyed a three minutes five second winning advantage over runners-up Stockport with annual Northern challengers, Morpeth Harriers, in third. A fifth title in seven years, including a unique success at Sutton Park in 2013 after adverse weather caused […]
