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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….

Wednesday 2nd June at Withdean stadium. Lewes athletes Livvy Conner, Millie Cable, Ruby Whyte-Wilding and Alex Chitty took the year 7 girls Quadrathlon by storm. Alex Chitty finished in 10th position 70m hurdles 15.7, Long jump 3.22, Shot putt 4.76m and 3.01.9 for 800m. Millie Cable finished in Bronze medal position with 1559 pts. 70m hurdles 13.6, Long Jump 4.34m, Shot putt 6.83m and 2.54.6…

Emilie Blackwell U17W competed on Sunday in the National Junior league at Eastbourne. Looking for higher level vault competition before next weekends Southern championships. She came in at 2.85m to win the competition, then cleared 3.00 first attempt and p.b. 3.21m on a very lucky third attempt, which not only saw the bar turn right over and stay on the pins but also survived her…