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On a blazing hot Saturday on the 4th June 2011 the Lewes AC A team took the bronze medal in the 100 mile South Downs Relay. Their time was a very creditable 11 hours 11 minutes. Overall this time was just a touch over six and a half minutes for each mile which bearing in mind the very hilly nature of the run was outstanding…

Medals for Lewes athletes were few and far between but a good turnout and many p.b’s. U13 Boys Minithon Luca Bish 44 points 9th Place. U13 Girls Minithon Polly Saunders 60 points 4th Place. Georgina Donnelly 42 points 17th Place. Amy Fines 37 points 21st Place. Hannah Lewis 24 points 27th Place. U15 Boys Tom Lambert 2.28.5 for 12th place in the 800m. Connor Sullivan…

Thirty six athletes from Lewes AC have entered next weekends Sussex Track & Field Championships at the K2 centre Crawley. By far the largest entry from the club for many years. Good luck to all. Women; E Blackwell, M Cable, L Connor, G Donnelly, H English, A Fines, H Jackson, E James, N Lee, H Lewis, H Macdonald, C Povey, E Rothwell, P Saunders, M…

Sam Brown cleared 4.21m to set a new club senior record and Claudette Povey set a new club women’s record with a pb 2.50m. Emilie Blackwell cleared a new pb of 3.35m to set a new U17W record. Livvy Connor U15G cleared 2.90m and Vicky Warren U15G cleared 2.40m Bryce Williams Watson U17M cleared a seasons best of 2.90m, James Shackleton U17M2.70m

Millie Cable added the club 200m U15 girls outdoor record to her recently set 200m indoor record. Her time of 26.97 set at the Crawley open on Sunday 24th April knocks over half a second off the previous club best. It was no surprise when Millie took the club 200m indoor record, being a fantastic bend runner and indoor tracks have two bends! The outdoor…

16 Lewes AC runners and other halves over the weekend of Sunday 17th April travelled down to the Loire Valley in France to take part in a series of races organised by the Lewes AC twinned club AS Marolles. This was the twenty-fifth anniversary of competing in Marolles and to mark the occasion 5 Lewes AC runners took part in a celebration relay around the…

Four Lewes vaulters competed on Sunday 17th April at the Walton open meeting. James (Jim) Shackleton U17M set a new p.b. by 8cm clearing 2.80m. Vicky Warren U15G also added 8cm to her previous best in clearing 2.50m Emilie Blackwell U17W cleared 3.20m with ease with two good attempts at 3.30m. Livvy Connor U15G also added 8cm to her previous best to become the youngest…

There were some stunning performances by Lewes AC members in Sunday’s Brighton Marathon. With over 6,000 runners Robbie James was 10th overall in a time 2.37.49, was the second runner from Sussex and the first man over 40. Not to be outdone Maria Judd was 20th women in the marathon in a time of 3.21.33 and was the third women in the over 45 category….

In a close fought league competition Lewes AC won the last event at Cross in Hand which gave the club the league win consisting of six events. It was nip and tuck with Hailsham Harriers right up to the last match which Lewes AC won. Equal on points at the end Lewes AC won the league by having won more of the individual events. Over…

Sunday 13th March @ Carshalton. The last indoor Pole Vault competition of the winter season saw seven vaulters from the Lewes based squad travel to Carshalton, joining sixty like minded athletes. Naomi Lee continued her brilliant start to the season after moving up to the U17 age group she added a new p.b. 3.22m closely followed with 3.32m. This moves her to third in this…