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Three gold medals and one Silver for the Lewes pole vaulters during the Sussex indoor championships held on 6th/7th March at the Sutton arena. Sam Brown took the U20M gold with 4.20m and had three very close shots at 4.36m. Emilie Blackwell took the U17W gold with p.b. 3.20m a height which moves her to 3rd in the UK rankings and to 40th position on…

Congratulations and good luck to the Lewes quartet of vaulters who have achieved the qualifying height for the UK indoor championships. The championships are being held over the weekend of 27/28 February at the National Indoor Arena Birmingham. Sam Brown U20M almost injury free for the first time in a year, and after a good start to the indoor season will be looking to further…

Congratulations to: Eve Rothwell Holly English Maddy Smith Ludo Goodliffe Matt Suter & Robbie James Who have all qualified to run for Sussex at the McCain World Cross Country Trials & Inter Counties

Olivia Conner U13G has added another club record to her collection. At the W.S.E.H open meeting held at Thames Valley Athletics Centre on Saturday 6th February 2010. Olivia added 18cm to her p.b. and 8cm to the Club and Sussex records in the Pole Vault. A height which takes her to fourth on the UK all time list and joint UK number one in this…

Naomi Lee equalled her p.b. 2.90m to take the U15G South of England Gold medal, very nearly adding the championship record with three very close attempts at 3.02m. Not to be outdone Emilie Blackwell then cleared 3m to take the U17W Gold medal. Sam Brown on his way back from injury having and having not jumped for months picked up the U20M bronze medal on…

Despite the wind and rain there was a great team effort at Whitbread Hollow when Lewes AC won the first of the Sunday Cross Country League events. Led by Robbie James in first place and David Bradford in 4th place the men were off to a good start. First of the Lewes AC women was Natasha Fuller followed by Catherine Swinson and Carol Walters. The…

Congratulations to the Senior Men’s team in winning the team prize in the Lewes 10 mile race. Dave Bradford, Ashley Williams, Matt Bradford and Andrew Masters made up the team with a combined score of 47 beating Brighton and Hove with a team score of 53 and Phoenix with a score of 76. Congratulations also to Dave Bradford who won the whole race with a…

All the provisional dates have now been fixed for the 2009/10 East Sussex Sunday Cross Country League. See the fixtures section of this web site for dates and venues. Lewes AC has been asked to put on one of the events at Plumpton College and this has been fixed for the 28th February 2010. Help will be required to put this event on.

Congratulations to Alan Velecky who has been selected to represent England in the Veteran Home Inter National Orienteering Championship in the Peak District. Good luck Alan

The final Southern mens league match of the season took place on 1st August at Bracknell. The combined Lewes/Haywards Heath team winning with 117 pts Bracknell 107 and East Grinstead 69 with Hastings making a no show. Lewes event winners. Rob Mullet 8.53.5 in 3000m S/C A new club rec. Sam Brown 4.20m Pole Vault A = club rec. Chris Pilling 16.4 in 110m Hurdles…