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Whilst Wallands School remains the Race HQ for the Lewes 10 and Lewes 5 Downland Races to take place on Sunday the 3rd October there is now no car parking at the school. The School at the very last minute has informed the club that a security gate has been built across the access to the car parking area which is not wide enough to…

Sunday 19th September @ Lewes track. The 16 vaulters from around the South East region who entered the Lewes end of season vault were blessed with glorious sunshine and many p.b.s. The results of the Lewes based athletes that competed are as follows, all achieved p.b.s. Hannah Macdonald U15G 2.23m Remi Macdonald U17M 2.83m James Shackleton U15B 2.46m Vicky Warren U13G 2.23m Holly Turner U15G…

Sunday 12th September at Horsham Olivia Conner continued her fantastic year by winning the Sussex U13 Pentathlon Gold medal, pushed all the way by Silver medal winner Ruby Whyte-Wilding. Exact scores will appear shortly on the records & rankings pages and Sussex AA web site. Ruby’s performance (2055 pts) beat the club Pentathlon record held by Lizzie Keep by over 100 points. Olivia (2298pts) surpassed…

3rd September Lewes. Livvy Conner U13G cleared 2.70m in the Pole Vault increasing her p.b. and Sussex record by 7cm. 5th September Woking. Naomi Lee U15G cleared 3.15m in the Pole Vault increasing her p.b. and Sussex record by 4cm.

There are important changes this season: These are as follows: 1. Pre registration. You can register now for all six races for £12.50 (compared to £18.00 – £3.00 per race – on the day). You will be issued with one all-weather number, which will be your number for all races. There will be no need to register on the day, avoiding freezing queues – just…

Livvy Conner added 3cm to her Club & Sussex U13G Pole Vault record on Saturday at the Julie Rose stadium Ashford. With the height of 2.63m she now stands fourth on the UK all time list. Millie Cable beat her own club U13G 150m record at the Crawley Tom Lintern medal meeting to record 20.54 this moves her to number 43 in the power of…

Held at Lewes on Monday 5th July. A good turnout from Lewes athletes, with a number of personal bests. The girls came second to a very strong Brighton team. The boys managed to push Brighton into second place by a single point. Overall Lewes finished second behind Brighton. Some of the better performances. Evan Carter 100m 12.6 Long Jump p.b. 5.23m James Kemp 100m 13.6…

Sunday 4th July at K2 centre Crawley saw the first Sussex U11 Quadkids championships. A large field saw only three Lewes athletes competing. Matt Pickering ran the 75m in 11.8 the 600m in 2.01 jumped 1.86m in the standing long jump and threw the vortex howler 34.06m (some 8m further than any other competitor) to take the gold medal. The Sussex U13 championships saw more…

A trio of Lewes athletes have been selected to represent Sussex schools at the English Schools championships being held at the Alexander Stadium Birmingham on the 9th & 10th July 2010. The three athletes have all achieved the exacting English schools entry standards, which in itself is fantastic feat. We wish the best of luck to Sam Brown Senior Boys Pole Vault. Emilie Blackwell Inter…

On Saturday 5th June 2010 the Senior A team of Sussex AC took bronze medals in the 100 mile South Downs Relay. With 57 teams entered from across the South of England a third place for Lewes was a fantastic achievement. Well done guys. In scorching weather and high temperatures the team of six competed the 100 miles in 30 seconds under the 11 hours….