A NUMBER of the region’s athletes took part in the Coleton Footacher multi-terrain run on Saturday evening in south Devon. The event starts and finishes at the National Trust property near Kingswear and takes athletes around various paths in the grounds and on to the coastal path. It is a scenic 6.3 mile run but … Continue reading
CERI REES and Ami Yetton were the main winners at the Burrator Horseshoe Run on Saturday afternoon. The event is one of the toughest races in the region and competitors were not helped by baking hot conditions. The seven mile run starts in Meavy village on Dartmoor and takes athletes out to Burrator Reservoir before … Continue reading
ERME Valley Harriers’ Will Battershill returned home from America to retain his England Under-20 3,000m steeplechase title at Bedford on Saturday. Battershill, who has just completed his first year at Harvard University, was the class athlete in the field and produced a comfortable display of front running. The former Ivybridge Community College pupil eased to … Continue reading
A YOUNG darts player from Plymouth has qualified for the World Junior Championship after winning a top UK competition in Worcester. Plymouth Studio School’s Keelan Kay triumphed in the third Modus UK Tour event of 2017 by beating Hertfordshire’s Jarred Cole in the final. The pair produced a high quality final, which went down to … Continue reading
ELBURTON VILLA brought their club’s annual summer tournament to a close with victory in the under-14 final. The team played their victors in the Devon Cup final, South Dartmoor Community College, in the last game at the Haye Road tournament, which was sponsored by Hallwell Projects. And Villa got revenge for their narrow county cup … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Diving’s Matthew Dixon and his GB diving partner Noah Williams won a bronze medal at the European Diving Championship in Kiev on Thursday. The young duo took third in the men’s 10m platform synchro event in the Ukraine. They scored 388.05 points to finish behind home winners Maksym Dolgov and Oleksandr Gorshkovozov, who collected … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth’s Ashley Smith made it a hat-trick of wins in this year’s Armada Summer 5k Series. Smith comfortably came home first in Wednesday’s run at Saltram Park, having also triumphed in May and April’s races. On a hot evening, Smith clocked 16 minutes and 54 seconds, with Plymouth Harriers’ Rikki James second in … Continue reading
