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Whilst the Lewes AC veterans and under 13 athletes were battling it out for honours on the first September eight Lewes AC under 15 and under 17 athletes were competing in the England Athletics Championships at Bedford. With more athletes from Lewes AC qualified to take part than any other Sussex Club there were some great performances. Aidan Briffet as an under 15 clocked a…

It was a tough competition for the Lewes AC under 13 athletes in the final of the Sussex Under 13 League. Against 10 teams from across Sussex the Lewes AC juniors produced some great performances to finish mid table 5th out of 10 teams. Performances to note were Myles Bickmore-Vaughan who came first in both the high jump and the long jump with leaps of…

Sunday 1st September saw the final of the Southern Counties Vets League, at Ashford, Kent. Lewes AC, twinned as ever with Haywards Heath Harriers (HH), had won the Sussex League earlier in the summer, and as a result were sent to battle against seven other Southern Counties finalists; Herne Hill Harriers, Oxford, Southampton, Enfield & Haringey, Epsom & Ewell Harriers, Cambridge Harriers, and Blackheath &…

Eight Lewes athletes have achieved the qualification marks and will make the trek to Bedford this weekend for the U15/U17 national age group championships. Sam Rogers U15B 800m Aiden Briffett U15B 1500m Scott Staples U15B Javelin Ethan Bickmore-Vaughan 100 & 200m Polly Saunders U15G Pole Vault Millie Hemsley U15G Pole Vault Jack Harris U13B will compete in the U15B Pole Vault Livvy Connor U17W Pole…

17th August at Ashford in the SEAA U15 championships Scott Staples threw a pb and new club record in the Javelin of 49.10m to win the Silver medal. Well done to Scott with his 4th Javelin club record in two weeks.

Lewes AC team with Haywards Heath Harriers won the Southern Athletics League match at Carshalton on Saturday 10th August by over 60 points. The team scores were Lewes AC with Haywards Heath Harriers 277 points: Holland Sports 210.5 points: Sutton and District 167 points: Invicta East Kent 116 points and Poole Runners 82.5 points. In this match Sam Brown set a new league record for…

Scott Staples broke the club’s Javelin record for the third time in eight days with a distance 45.60m at Horsham open meeting, Sunday 4th August 46.51 at the under Sussex under 15 league match at Eastbourne on Wednesday 7th August and again on Sunday 11th August at the inter counties meeting to take second place with a throw 48.08m. This puts Scott up into 11th…

As part of a hectic period for Lewes AC members Livvy Connor was selected to represent Sussex in the Southern Counties under 20 Inter Counties Competition. Livvy competed in the Pole Vault and cleared 3.50m to gain third place. This was a truly impressive performance considering many in the event were four years older.

There was great and exciting racing at the Herstmonceux Castle Relays last week. With teams of four each running a leg of something over 1.5miles the Lewes AC men’s A team was just second behind a strong Hastings AC team. The Hastings team completed the four laps in 29mins.22secs with the Lewes team under 30 seconds behind in 29mins 49secs. Josh Burgess ran the fastest…