ANNABELLE Fasuba, Bryan Oldfield, Nicolas Maczugowski and Tegan Brown were among the athletes to set new records at the Devon Schools’ Track & Field Championships at Exeter. English Schools’ champion Fasuba broke the 100m and 200m junior girls’ championship best performances. The UK number one under-15 athlete already held the 100m record having set it … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Diving’s Euan McCabe has been rewarded for his British title win last weekend by earning selection for the Great Britain team to compete at this summer’s World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. McCabe is one of 14 pool divers named in the team for the competition, which will take place between July 26 and August … Continue reading
WILL BATTERSHILL is set make his long-awaited senior Great Britain track debut this month at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championship in Madrid. Battershill has been named as Great Britain’s representative in the men’s 3,000m steeplechase for the team competition between June 26 and 29 after recently opening his season over the barriers with an … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK RFC have launched a new mixed non-contact rugby session aimed at the wider community. More than 20 players of all ages and sexes attended the first night of the new T1 rugby group on the artificial pitch at Tavistock College. T1 is backed by World Rugby and the RFU and is slightly different to … Continue reading
ST Austell Athletes RC’s Garth McColville was first home in June’s Armada Summer 5k Series run at Saltram House on Wednesday evening. McColville took victory by more than 30 seconds, finishing the multi-terrain course around the National Trust estate in 17 minutes and 28 seconds. Second home was South West Vets’ Alex Peyton-Jones, who clocked … Continue reading
THERE were some impressive performances as Plymouth’s Brickfields track hosted the second Devon Athletics Open on Sunday. There was an exciting men’s 800m race where City of Plymouth’s Joshua Blake timed his run perfectly to overtake Cornish athlete Jack Nancarrow on the final lap and win in 1:54.56. Nancarrow came second in the PB time … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH’S Euan McCabe dived brilliantly to win his first-ever senior individual platform British title at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre on Sunday. McCabe followed in the footsteps of fellow Plymothians Tom Daley and Matthew Dixon by winning the men’s 10m platform crown. The Plymouth Diving star was battling it out with his former British junior synchro … Continue reading
HENRY HART overcame horrible conditions to smash the course record at the Dartmoor Discovery ultra marathon race on Saturday. The international distance athlete, who competes at the top club level for Belgrave Harriers, finished the tough 32-mile event in three hours, 18 minutes and 53 seconds, which was more than 10 minutes inside the previous … Continue reading
DEVON’S senior men’s team survived a few nervous moments against a lively Staffordshire side to reach Twickenham for a second successive year. Devon narrowly triumphed 27-20 at Ivybridge’s Cross-in-Hand ground on Saturday to reach the Division Two final of the County Championship, having last season won the Division Three title at English rugby’s HQ. The … Continue reading
RUNNERS from around the country braved horrible conditions and some of the toughest hills that Devon has to offer on Saturday as part of the Dartmoor Discovery race. The 32-mile event, which starts and finishes at Princetown, is the UK’s longest single lap road ultra marathon. The undulating course sees athletes leave Princetown and head through … Continue reading