NEWNHAM & Essex Beagles athlete Daniel Giles edged out Plymouth Harriers youngster Sam Yearling to take victory in the Mad March Hare 10k. Giles, a postgraduate researcher at Loughborough University, secured the win at the Plympton race with a 35.02 minute run. Yearling, just 17, finished second at the event, that started and finished at … Continue reading
THE Mad March Hare 10k took place on Sunday at Plympton. The popular annual run starts and finishes at the Plymouth speedway track at Marsh Mills and takes athletes out through the Saltram estate. The event is organised by the Plymouth Round Table. Full report and results to follow. Continue reading
MOUNT Kelly College’s Oliver Smart joined some illustrious company by winning the English Schools’ Cross Country title at Temple Newsam in Leeds on Saturday. The Tavistock Run Project athlete, who is unbeaten in 2019, showed great strength in tough conditions to pull away from the country’s best athletes in the final quarter of the 5,220m … Continue reading
PLYMOUTH Harriers filled three of the top four places at the final Armada Winter 3k Series run of the season on Wednesday evening at Central Park. Youngster Sam Yearling was first home for the fifth consecutive month. He clocked 10.08 minutes in windy conditions to finish six seconds ahead of his Harriers’ team-mate John Cooper. … Continue reading
YOUNG City of Plymouth pole vaulter Noah Jones improved his personal best yet again at the weekend. Jones leaped 3.23m at the Vault Cardiff event in Wales that attracted most of the UK’s top jumpers, including Great Britain star Holly Bradshaw. It was the fourth time since September Jones has set a new PB in … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth’s Thomas Jones, Tavistock Run Project’s Oliver Smart and Tavistock AC’s Will Russell were among the winners at the final event of the Westward Cross Country League Series at Redruth on Sunday. The last leg of the series saw athletes having to battle with gale-force winds, rain and mud. The worst of the … Continue reading
CITY of Plymouth athlete David King was disappointed not to reach the European Indoor Championship 60m hurdles final on Sunday. King eased into the semi-finals in Glasgow with a good run in the heats. He clocked 7.66 seconds to claim one of the automatic top three qualifying places in his heat. That was the seventh … Continue reading
