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There were some excellent performances by Lewes AC athletes when they competed at the Sussex Schools Track and Field Championships at Crawley on Saturday 16th June. Overall the junior club athletes set three new club records recorded eight all time personal bests and won seven gold medals, four silver and five bronze medals. The gold medal winners and Sussex Schools Champions were Matt Dingle in…

Saturday 9th June saw Round 3 of the Southern Athletics League come to Lewes. Competitors from Chichester, Kingston & Polytechnic Harriers, and Cambridge Harriers (based in South London) descended on the Lewes track for a very windy afternoon of track and field events. Lewes athletes (twinned with Haywards Heath Harriers for this league) were out in force, and fought hard against the impressive Cambridge Harriers….

No fewer than 22 Lewes AC athletes turned out on a cool, windy evening on Wednesday 6th June for the Worthing 10k. Despite the challenging conditions, Lewes runners packed the top-10 and dominated the team contest. David Bradford finished fourth, in 34:22, 31 seconds clear of club-mate Robbie James in fifth, followed by Josh Burgess in sixth, who clocked 35:09. The other Lewes AC finishers…

Wednesday 6th June the Sussex schools combined events champs held at Withdean Stadium had three Lewes athletes entered. Luca Bish came tenth in the Junior Boys competition a great result for him, he must have come away from Withdean with neck ache after having to look up to all the year 9 Boys being the only year 8 entered. Livvy Connor added yet another Gold…

The evening of Wednesday 30th May saw the second round of the Sussex Vets’ League, which was held at our home track. As with the Southern Athletics League, Lewes are twinned with Haywards Heath Harriers. Following a rather dismal turnout at the first meeting, we made up for it at Lewes, and both the men’s and the women’s teams had some good results. It’s always…

On Saturday 2nd June Lewes AC had three teams of six runners in the 100 mile relay race along the South Downs Way. With an A and a B men’s team plus a ladies team it was a very early start from Beachy Head to arrive at Winchester later in the day. Team A made up of Martin Komen, Dave Bradford, Simon Thomas, Mat Homewood,…

Our Leaderboard, showing best times by locally-based senior Lewes AC runners at distances from 5k to Marathon since the start of 2011, has now been updated to 1 June 2012 and is available at the bottom of our Records and Ranking page (see link on left). The Leaderboard shows that a large number of senior runners, both on the male and female side, have already…

There was also great news for the club and for Lewes when Rob Mullett currently in the USA texted to say that he had achieved the B qualifying standard for the Olympic 3,000m Steeple Chase with a run of 8mins 31.62secs. Rob is one of only three in the UK that have achieved this Olympic qualifying mark.

U11 Male Athlete of the Year – Ben Walters: U13 Male Athlete of the Year – Aiden Briffett: U15 male Athlete of the Year – Luke Staples: U17 Male Athlete of the Year – Aaron Guilford: U11 Female Athlete of the Year – Danielle Jacobs: U13 Female Athlete of the Year – Polly Saunders: U15 Female Athlete of the Year – Millie Cable: U17 Female…

On Wednesday evening a team of 18 runners made the trip from Lewes to take part in the annual Littlehampton Beach Run. It was a beautiful early summer evening with just a hint of a Westerly breeze but there was some apprehension about the idea of running 5 miles on sand. In fact only about 2/3 of the race was along the beach, on firm…