John Skelton competed in the English Masters’ Cross Country Trials in Derby that is used to select the England Teams for the British and Irish Masters Cross Country International in Glasgow on 11 November.
Competing as an M70 in the 6km race for Masters Women and Masters Men over 65, he finished 56th out of 103 and fourth M70.
Redford and Kayleigh were in Manchester for the British Championships Kayleigh Presswell finished fifth in the Hammer with 60.41m while Redford was eighth in the Javelin with 58.82m. Full results from Manchester
Two MMK runners completed the Great North Run from Newcastle to South Shields. 4193 Mark Dowson (M50) 1:41:54 (5M 35:34, 10M 73:41) 7720 Stewart Wells (M55) 1:50:30 (5M 41:48, 10M 84:01) Full results from South Shields
The results are available here. Highlight of the day was Ayesha Jones’s 51.81m throw in the Inter Girls Javelin, which takes her to third place in the UK all-time Under 17 Rankings!
There were some excellent performances at the third Milton Keynes Open Meeting of the year but the standout performance came from Blackheath & Bromley’s talented U13 Girl, Kara Bryan, who just missed (by 0.2 seconds) the UK all-time best performance over 600m, recording 1:37.5. MMK’s Daniel Southgate moved up to second in the 2023 UK…
Four MMK athletes took part in an Indoor Open Meeting in Birmingham the day after the Indoor International. In the 200m two athletes achieved Indoor personal bests while Matt Hall missed his by 0.01 seconds. 60m David Boakye (M23) 7.21 60m George Mbofana (MS) 7.42 200m George Mbofana (MS) 23.93 (Indoor pb) 200m Matt Hall…
Fifteen MMK youngsters represented Buckinghamshire in the Southern Inter-Counties Cross Country Championships at Oxford. Jacque Smith continued his great season with second place in the M13 race, while Katie Webb finished seventh in the F15 race. There was a win for the MMK/Chiltern runners (pictured above, top) in the F17 Women’s race with four, including…