CITY of Plymouth’s Matthew Bradley continued his good form with victory in the annual Muskies Madness race on Saturday evening. This year the multi-terrain event, hosted by Plymouth Musketeers, was increased from five-and-a-half miles to a full 10k with a new course. The race started and finished at King’s Tamerton Community Centre and took runners … Continue reading
IVYBRIDGE player-coach Lewis Paterson says it will be brilliant to have Toby Borrow back at the club for the 2018/19 season. The flanker, who can also play centre, is returning to his hometown team after playing and living in Bahrain. Prior to moving overseas the Bridgers’ 2010 player-of-the-year had a spell in London and for … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Leander’s Ben Proud set the swimming world alight on Friday night with a sensational performance at the Sette Colli Meet in Italy. Proud smashed his own British record and the Commonwealth record to win the men’s 50m freestyle event in a time of 21.16 seconds. Only three swimmers – Brazilian world record holder Cesar … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Diving’s Aidan Heslop picked up a bronze medal on the fourth day of the European Junior Championships in Helsinki. He and his Great Britain diving partner Lucas Thomson claimed third place in the boys’ synchro platform final. Heslop’s success followed on from that of Plymouth team-mate Victoria Vincent, who won a silver in the … Continue reading
THERE were plenty of personal bests from athletes from the region at the BMC Meeting at Exeter Arena on Tuesday night. Young Tavistock athlete Amelia Riggot was one of those to achieve a milestone. She ran under five minutes for the first time in the 1,500m. Riggot, in her first year at under-15 level, clocked … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Diving’s Victoria Vincent has enjoyed a fantastic start to the European Junior Championships in Helsinki. The 17-year-old has won two medals on the opening two days of competition. She opened the championships with a bronze medal in the mixed team event alongside Lucas Thomson, Ben Cutmore and Anthony Harding. In that event, Vincent dived … Continue reading
DEVONPORT Services have strengthened their pack with the addition of Nathan Trower and Dan Oner. Royal Navy second-row Trower is a former Services player who came through the club’s colts. Oner, meanwhile, arrives at the Rectory from Cornwall/Devon League side Tavistock. He is likely to be followed by Mark Friend, who is also believed to … Continue reading
EMILY BEE’S impressive year just keeps getting better and better. The City of Plymouth athlete again re-wrote record books, this time at the South West Schools’ Combined Events Championships. A week after smashing the South West under-17 girls’ 80m hurdles record and moving to the top of the UK rankings in that event, Bee did … Continue reading
MOUNT Kelly College’s James Reyburn has been appointed as Tavistock RFC’s new director of rugby. The former Harlequins and Saracens academy coach, who was involved with Devon under-16s last term and is Mount Kelly’s head of rugby, will work alongside Hammy Kerswill, who is staying on his role as Tavistock’s player-coach. Scrum specialist Darren Chapple … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH diver Matthew Dixon is already looking towards next season, despite having one more major competition to go this year. Dixon will be part of the Great Britain team that competes at the European Championships in Edinburgh at the start of August. The 18-year-old has already had a year to remember. He has won the … Continue reading