BEN PROUD secured Great Britain’s first gold of the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest with a stunning victory in the men’s 50m freestyle on Friday evening. Leading from the front after a phenomenal start, the 27-year-old former Plymouth College pupil got the fastest reaction time of the field, maintaining a half body-length lead down the … Continue reading
OLD TECHS have strengthened their backroom team by bringing in former Tamar Saracens coach Dean Oram ahead of the 2022-23 season. Oram, whose playing career included spells at Devonport Services, Brixham, Tamar Saracens and Plymouth Barbarians, will head up the coaching at Weston Mill. Shaun Bedford-Smith, who also has other roles on Techs’ committee, will … Continue reading
DEVONPORT Royal’s Abi Daly returned home from the National Junior Para-Swimming Championships in Coventry with four gold medals and a silver. Mount Kelly’s Alexander Hobbs was also among the medallists as the championships returned after a two-year hiatus due to Covid. Daly, competing in the S14 17-18 year-old age, came first in the 200m freestyle, … Continue reading
CERI REES and Charlotte Walker claimed the main titles at the Burrator Horseshoe Run on Saturday evening. The tough six-mile-plus fell race takes runners out of Meavy Village to Burrator Reservoir and then straight up the summit of Sheeps Tor and Gutter Tor on Dartmoor before returning to the start. The race has traditionally been … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth and Tavistock AC athletes were among the winners at the South West Schools’ Championships at Exeter on Saturday. Tavistock enjoyed a clean sweep of the medals in the intermediate girls’ hammer courtesy of Phoebe Milburn, Louisa Hess and Hannah Walker, who were all representing Devon. Tavistock College’s Milburn won with a new … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH diver Matthew Dixon will compete at his third Commonwealth Games this summer. Dixon, 22, has been confirmed in an 18-strong Team England squad for the home games in Birmingham. He made his Commonwealth Games debut as a 14-year-old back in Glasgow back in 2014 and then in 2018 in Australia he returned with two … Continue reading
EXMOUTH’S Tom Merson retained the Plymouth Half Marathon title on Sunday with another strong run. Merson had also won the event last year and in 2019, but this time around he was pushed hard by Newbury’s Callum O’Neill. The Exmouth man triumphed in 1:08.08, which was quicker than his winning time last year, with O’Neill … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Reece Dunn ended the World Para-Swimming Championships in Madeira with a silver medal in the S14 100m butterfly. The triple Paralympic gold medallist had won two relay golds with Great Britain at the championships but he had to wait until the final day to make the podium on his own. He had been … Continue reading
RUNNERS faced horrendous conditions as they battled one of the hardest off-road races in the region on Saturday. The Burrator Horseshoe Run, which is now part of the Dartmoor Fell Series, normally takes place in scorching hot weather conditions. But the 2022 race saw the heavens open as runners set off from Meavy village for … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Reece Dunn claimed a second relay gold for Great Britain at the World Para-Swimming Championships in Madeira on Friday, while there was an individual silver medal for Mount Kelly’s Leo McCrea. Multi-Paralympic champion Dunn had anchored GB’s mixed S14 4x100m freestyle relay team home to victory on Wednesday evening and two days later … Continue reading