David Foster

Competing at National and Regional level a bundle of Lewes AC young athletes topped the medal tables and came away with many personal bests and great performances. The first event was the South of England Athletics under 15 and under 17 Championships held at Lee Valley over the weekend of the 11th and 12th of August. Emilie Oakden continued her fantastic season and cleared 3.00m…

Lewes AC members came away with five gold medals from the Surrey and Sussex Masters Championships held at Ewell Court on the 3rd June. First out of the blocks was Ciaran Harvey winning the gold medal in the 100m for men aged over 40 in a time of 11.69. Ciaran left everyone in his wake to also claim a Sussex gold  medal in the 200m…

Forget all about rain in Spain it is now Gemma Tutton that reigns in Spain. Over two weeks in May in Malaga in Spain Gemma, as a Lewes AC under15 athlete, broke three club records, one Sussex County record and put herself second on the UK all time pole vault rankings with a 3.70m pole vault. The first Lewes AC club record to be broken…

On Saturday 12th May in Spain Tom Evans won a superb individual Bronze medal and led the British men’s team to the silver medal at the World Trail Championships Competing over the Penyagolasa trails in Castellon-de-la-Plana Tom clocked 8:49:35 for the 85.3km (53 mile) race which included challenging 5000 metres worth of ascent. Tom was followed over the finish line by his England team mate Jonathon Albon…

Lewes AC athlete Karin Divall was selected to compete as part of a Masters England Team running at the Birmingham 10K on Sunday 6th April. The England team comprised 89 athletes aged 35 and over from across England who met England Athletics qualification criteria at the 10K distance. The Masters Women’s team proudly wearing their England vests, started the race directly behind the elite women competitors at…