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 Grace Cook from St. Richard's Schools Bexhill showed a clean pair of heels to her rivals in the Year 7 race at the South East Schools Inter-county cross-country match at Eastleigh.
Cook was the only Sussex winner on the day, indeed she was the only medallist and she led her team into fourth team spot.
The best team result came in the Boys Year 8 race where Sussex filled third spot with three runners in the top ten with Hurstpierpoint College’s James Oliver just missing a medal when placing fourth while Seaford Head’s Jake Alger finished in eighth place and Bishop Luffa’s George Dempster filled tenth place.
Henry Leuleu (Chichester) finished 14th, Dorothy Stringer’s Samuel Kamara was 29th and William Thomas from Hasting ....
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 The Sussex senior women’s team for the Inter-counties at Birmingham in one week’s time has been hit by injuries to two of their top athletes.
Arena 80’s Caroline Hoyte, who missed the county championships at the turn of the year, is still on the crocked bench while Sophie Coleman (Phoenix) has had to withdraw through injury.
The team however will be led by the very much in form Fiona Clark (Arena 80) who recently smashed her “Half-marathon” best in Barcelona.
Clocking 76:05 she chopped some three minutes off her previous best and moved up to second fastest, behind Hoyte, on the Sussex “All-time” lists. She is currently the fifth fastest by any British woman this year.
Ollie Freeman (Bodyworks) has, like Hoyte, not recovered ....
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Crawley athletes, Seb Rodgers and Jo Rowland will be donning Great Britain vests to compete in an Under 20 Combined events match in France this weekend.
On the home front the Sussex Schools Year 7 and Year 8 teams will be travelling to Eastleigh for the South East Inter-counties match.
Also the Sussex Indoor championships will be held in conjunction with the Surrey championships at Sutton on both Saturday and Sunday.
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 There was a silver medal for Naomi Lee (Lewes) a bronzes for Tom Gardner (East Grinstead) and Max Woodward (Horsham) plus a couple of near misses for Philippa Wilson (Brighton & Hove) and Emilie Blackwell (Lewes) at the England Young Athletes Indoor championships at Birmingham over the weekend.
Sussex pole-vaulters were well represented at Birmingham and the Lewes girl’s medal came in the U15 event where she cleared 2.80m.
In the same age group Blue Star’s Woodward, who had been let off other sporting activities at Hurstpierpoint College to concentrate on extra pole vault training rewarded his College and Club with a bronze medal clearing 3.10m.
In the U20 high jump East Grinstead’s Tom Gardner soared to a personal best effort of 2.03m ....
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 Brighton & Hove City and the Hastings clubs were the only Sussex clubs to complete teams in the English Cross-country championships at Roundhay Park Leeds.
The Brighton & Hove senior men’s team had a good result to finished 24th, out of more than one hundred teams and were the tenth Southern team to finish.
It was Hailsham’s Ben Warren, running for the Harrow club who, led the Sussex challenge finishing an excellent 50th in a finishing field of several thousand runners.
Team manager Matt Bristow led the Brighton & Hove team home in 202nd place with Richard Airey, 230th, Zared Hales 292, James Tomlinson 308th, David Boyce 375th and Howard Bristow 443rd completed the scoring six.
In the U13 girl’s race the Hastings squad ....
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 Several hundreds of youngsters braved the appalling rain on Thursday to do battle for the Sussex Schools Year 7 and 8 cross country championships at Christ’s Hospital and several of the schools, that had entered chose to stay in the dry.
Such were the conditions that the officials had difficulty extracting the finishing tickets and reading the team envelopes.
Grace Cook from St Richards, who had won the Sussex County Under 13 League race on the previous Saturday romped away with the first race of the afternoon, the Year 7 girls race finishing well clear of Chichester High’s Rosie Ellis and Warden Park’s L.Callaghan while
Windlesham took the team title from Cardinal Newman and Chichester High.
In the Year 7 boys race Falmer’s Stephen ....
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 Tim Bayley thinks it was worth sweating out the extra day before the British selectors announced the U.K team for the world Indoor championships at Doha Qatar in a couple of weeks time..
The team was due to be announced on Monday but it was not until Tuesday that the Phoenix athlete was confirmed as the only British runner selected for the men’s 1,500 metres.
This followed his brilliant time in the “Aviva Grand Prix” at Birmingham last weekend when he took two seconds off his previous best despite placing seventh in a World Class field in his fastest ever time of 3:40.16.
There is also a place in the team for Crawley’s Surrey athlete, Charlotte Best in the Women’s, 1,500 metres.
Like Bayley, ....
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 Darrell Stone from Steyning regained his National 10-mile road walking championship at Pickett’s Lock with a fine walk in difficult conditions.
Stone was in the leading group right from the start and moved clear before the five-mile mark but he had to battle hard over the second half of the race to fend off his rivals to regain the title he last won two years ago.
Clocking 73:49 the Steyning walker finished twenty seconds clear of Ilford’s Scott Davis.
Jimmy Ball and Trevor Jones both had good walks to finish seventh and eighth respectively in 84:04 and 84:18 and with three walkers in the first eight places the Steyning club completed a hat trick of team victories.
Richard Emsley returned to competition finishing 14th ....
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 With Several of the leading runners, who were assured of League titles missing the final "Brooks" Sussex Cross-country League races at Lancing Manor on Saturday there were some fresh faces sweeping to victory.
Grace Cook from Bodyworks reflected the sunny conditions that suggested that spring might be on the way when she headed for the front of the field in the first of the day’s races, the under 13 girls event.
The diminutive runner, who is still eligible to compete in this age group next year, never looked like relinquishing the lead and won comfortably from home runner India Spoor in 12:06 to 12:20 with Holly English (Lewes) in third spot in 12:30.
Brighton & Hove’s James Oliver, who has proved unbeatable ....
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 While Tim Bayley was being edged into second place at Sheffield a few thousand miles away in Seattle Chichester’s Charlotte Browning was notching up a fine one mile victory Indoors to smash her personal best and chalk up the third fastest time ever by a Sussex woman.
Browning tucked in behind local favourite Jessica Pixler but stormed past her over the final 200 metres to clock a marvellous 4m 31.4. which was a Stadium and a Florida University record.
At the same meeting Rob Mullett from Lewes became the latest Sussex “Four minute” miler when taking second place, behind Stanford’s Dylan Ferris, clocking 3:59.37 to the winner’s 3:58.90
At Sheffield there were silver and bronze medals for Tim Bayley (Phoenix) and Dannielle Christmas ....
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