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CLUB PROFILE
A profile of our leading individual & team success in the past 5 years written by Geoff Doggett
Commonwealth Games 1998
Sarah Young finished 5th in the 5,000m
Billy Burns ran in the men’s marathon
World Mountain Running Championships
We have had members competing in these championships for a number of years, but the last two years have been outstanding. This year we finished the first three in the English champs and actually had four members in the English team, along with Neil Wilkinson running for Scotland, and Tricia Sloan competing for Northern Ireland. It was similar in the previous year.
{In 2000, Billy Burns & Martin Cox were top ten and 2001 Billy won bronze medal}
Tomas Abyu won the Manchester Marathon in 2002 and the Sheffield Marathon and Leeds Marathons in 2003
Neil Wilkinson and Lisa Heyes both represented England in the Ekiden Road Relay Championships in Japan in 2002
{Beth Allott gained the Commonwealth Qualifying time for the Marathon running 2:34 in Lisbon (2002)}
Neil Wilkinson won the International Snowdon fell race in 1999 & 2000 – an outstanding run. Rachael Jones recently won the World Biathlon Championship in South Africa.
Bev Jenkins is the reigning 10,000m champion, and Sarah Young finished 2nd in the 5,000m. (1999)
Anne Buckley won the Millennium Marathon in Hamilton New Zealand 1st January 2000
On the team front we have consistently won National & Area Championship medals.
National 12-Stage Road Relay Champions in 1997 and 2000,
2nd in 1998 & 1999
We have won 5 of the past 7 Northern 12-Stage Road Relays, 2nd on the other 2 occasions.
We have also won the Northern 6-Stage Road Relay Championships in the past 2 years, and have won medals in the National 6-Stage Road Relays on a regular basis.
The National X-Country Relay has always been a good race for us with wins in 1985, and 1990, and place medals for the past 2 years, bronze 1998, silver 1999 and gold in 2001.
We won the Northern x-country team title in 1999.
In 2002 the senior men made the long journey to Bristol and secured a bronze medal in the National X-Country Championships with Martin Cox, Andrew Morgan-Lee, Phil Leybourne, John Brown, James Jackson and Duncan Mason.
In 2003 they were selected to represent Great Britain in the ECCC Half Marathon Championship in St Junien, France.
One of our proudest records is the fact that we have won more Northern titles than any other club.
20 Northern X-Country titles
8 12-Stage Relays
8 6-Stage Relays
The ladies section also has a very impressive record : -
Silver medal in the Northern 6-stage in 2003 and silver medal in the Masters Relays in 2003. 2nd Team place in the National X-Country Relays in 2001. 2nd Team place in the 10K Road Running Championships 2000. 2nd Team in the English National X-Country Championships 1999.
Ladies Champions in the AAA’s English Half Marathon Championships in 1998. Ladies Champions in the AAA’s 10K Road Running Championships in 1997. They won the Northern Championships in 1998 and the Northern Road Relay Champs on two occasions earning them a trip to the European Clubs Cup Championship in Moscow in 2000.
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