CITY of Plymouth high jumper Ethan Glyde and Mount Kelly swimmers Blythe Kinsman and Erin Little have been named in Team England’s squad for this summer’s Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago. Team England have selected 31 track and field athletes, including para-competitors, while 14 swimmers have been picked. The Commonwealth Youth Games take … Continue reading
TAMAR Trotters’ Jacob Landers retained the Magnificent 7 title on Sunday. Landers eased to victory for a second year running in the event his club organise. He clocked 38.42 minutes for the tough seven-mile race that takes runners from Saltash Rugby Club out on country roads to Elmgate and back around via Forder Lake. That … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK College were celebrating after three of their pupils won medals at the prestigious English Schools’ Track & Field Championships in Birmingham. Tegan Brown won a gold medal, while there were silvers for Phoebe Milburn and Nicolas Maczugowski at the Commonwealth Games stadium. There was also a gold medal for Plymouth College’s Nubia Evans-Shields, who … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK’S Joe Beaton stormed to victory in the Muddy Duck 10k at Plymstock on Saturday evening. Beaton won by nearly two minutes and recorded the fastest time for the off-road race since 2015. He clocked 33.57 minutes for the tough run, which involves water crossings and some short-sharp hills in Plymstock’s Radford Park. Only fellow … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK AC impressed at the annual Erme Valley Relays on Friday night at Ivybridge. The club won both the men’s and women’s events and also triumphed in the F45 category. Despite a raining evening, some 89 teams of four took part in the relays, which see each athlete run two-and-a-half miles. Tavistock’s men’s team held … Continue reading
THERE were some impressive performances from Armada athletes at the BMC Meeting at Exeter on Tuesday evening. Tamar Trotters’ Mike Wilsmore and Tavistock AC’s Thomas Hennessey both clocked times that ranked them second in their UK age categories, while a host of other athletes set new personal bests. Wilsmore won the men’s A 1,5000m in … Continue reading
ERME Valley Harriers’ Matthew Gilvear claimed an impressive silver medal for Devon at the British Junior Inter-County Fell & Hill Running Championships at Church Stretton in Shropshire at the weekend. Gilvear, who earlier this month won the Devon Schools’ senior boys’ 1,500m title, claimed his medal in the under-19 boys’ race. He was only beaten … Continue reading
VETERAN Ceri Rees retained the Burrator Horseshoe Run title on Saturday as he once again held off the challenge of Robert Waddy. In a bit of a repeat of the 2022 race – apart from the weather – Waddy again set the early pace only for the experienced Rees, who is now in the M50 … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK AC teenager Charlotte Walker continued her good fell running form by comfortably winning the women’s title at the Summer Solstice race at Merrivale on Wednesday evening. Walker, who had also claimed victory at the Buckland Boulder and Langstone Coronation fell races, won the tough 9.5k event on Wednesday by nearly two-and-a-half minutes. Second woman, … Continue reading
ERME Valley Harriers’ Will Battershill smashed his 3,000m steeplechase personal best on Saturday night to claim his first major win on the European circuit. Battershill clocked 8:23.31 to win over the barriers at Track Night Vienna – a meeting streamed live by European Athletics. It was his second PB in the space of eight days, … Continue reading