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Leading the way with both a new personal best time and winning the women’s race outright was Izzy Coomber. With a time of 35mins 13sec she is now the best 10K women’s runner in the history of Lewes AC. Supporting Izzy to secure the women’s team silver medal just behind Arena 80 was Lydia Godfrey with a time of 41.15 a PB by over 2…

Showing that age is no barrier to winning medals Lewes AC runners came away with eight Championship medals. First away to tackle the tough hilly and frozen course at Lancing Manor were the Lewes AC women’s team in the race for women aged over 35. There was a ding dong battle between the first two Lewes runners throughout the race with Emma Rolling just pipping…

Leading the medal chase by Lewes AC athletes at the Sussex Cross Country Championships were the Senior Women’s team. The team claimed the gold medal position for the first time in the club’s history beating the Brighton and Hove team into second place with Hailsham Harriers in third place. Izzy Coomber had a storming run to finish in third place overall and just missed winning…

Two Lewes athletes competed at the SEAA U15/U17 Indoor Championships held at Lee Valley over the weekend. Both came away with medals Jack Harris claimed the Silver in the U17m Pole Vault equalling the indoor club record with a 3.90m vault. Ivy Spencer U15G Pole Vault, picked up a Bronze medal in only her third competition, just missing the silver medal on countback. Ivy cleared…

Competing in the Metaswitch Indoor Games at Lee Valley Athletics Centre on Sunday 11th December. Gemma Tutton became only the third UK U13 female athlete to clear 3m in the Pole Vault. Gemma entered the competition with a first time bar clearance at 2.70m a new club Indoor vault record, she followed this up with first time clearances at 2.80m, 2.90m and 3m. The latter…