PLYMOUTH Studio School students Tate Budge and Rhys Roffe scooped four gold medals and a silver between them at the recent UK International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) Championships in Crawley. Year 10 Roffey, who trains with Plymouth South Coast Martial Arts, put up a hard-fight to retain his national title in the under-16s sparring. He also … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Triathlon Club claimed four podium finishes and seven top 10 age category spots at the Dartington Duathlon on Sunday. Iron-distance stars George Prewett and Ken Holder were the club’s top two leading athletes home in the standard distance competition, which involved a 10k run followed by a 40k bike ride and then finish with … Continue reading
BEN PROUD ended the FINA World Cup series in style by winning two medals in Hong Kong. The Plymouth Leander swimmer took silver in the 50m freestyle final and bronze in the 50m butterfly event. Proud had also managed to collect medals at the Tokyo, Singapore, Doha, Dubai, Beijing and Berlin legs of the short … Continue reading
PLAYER-COACH Lewis Paterson marked his 100th senior appearance for Ivybridge by scoring a try as they beat Bournemouth 35-10 at Cross-in-Hand in National Three South West. Paterson went over for Ivybridge’s fourth touch-down in a convincing performance as they bounced back from last weekend’s disappointing loss at Old Redcliffians. Their other try scorers were young … Continue reading
A PLYMOUTH man is hoping to go from being a self-confessed ‘couch potato’ to a marathon runner in just over six months. Alan Meyrick was persuaded to do the Plymouth 10k earlier this month by a friend, who wanted to run for St Luke’s Hospice. Alan has since caught the running bug and completed last … Continue reading
LEWIS PATERSON is hoping his 100th senior appearance for Ivybridge will be a memorable one. Fourth-placed Ivybridge take on eighth-placed Bournemouth at Cross-in-Hand in National Three South West hoping to bounce back from last weekend’s disappointing 31-14 loss Old Redcliffians. It was only their second defeat of the season. Ivybridge were 9-0 up just after … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Ben Proud was once again a FINA World Cup medal winner, this time at the Tokyo leg of the swimming series. Proud had already claimed podium places at the Singapore, Doha, Dubai, Beijing and Berlin legs, before winning silver in the 50m freestyle final in Japan on Wednesday. The University of St Mark … Continue reading
A MULTI-talented Mount Kelly student is reported to be attracting interested from American colleges after posting a video of himself on YouTube showing off his goal-kicking ability. Reiss Ormonde-Cunningham is on Mount Kelly’s swimming team and competes for them at national level. But rather than try and get a swimming scholarship in the USA, Ormonde-Cunningham … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Corinthian Cycling Club pair of Ben Causon and Chris Agnew finished first and second at the Heybook Bay Hill Climb. Causon clocked three minutes and 58 seconds for the tough ascent. That was five seconds quicker than his team-mate Agnew, who finished in 4:03. Third home in the Alltrax event was City Cycle Couriers’ … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Diving’s Connor West and Euan McCabe both returned with three medal each from the Southampton International. West returned home to Devon with a medal of every colour. Competing in the boys’ B category, he won the platform event, took silver in the three-metre competition and claimed a bronze in the one-metre final. McCabe matched … Continue reading