Latest cross-country results round-up from around Britain
ESSEX LEAGUE, Hilly Fields, Colchester, November 16
Despite several clashing events, such as the London and Eastern championships, being held elsewhere in the east, the Essex League nevertheless went ahead as planned and Sam Norris and Kate O’Neill came out on top of the senior races.
Both were close with O’Neill, the 2020 junior Inter-Counties bronze medallist repeating her win from the October race when narrowly heading many-time Essex champion Gemma Kersey.
Norris wound up only a few yards clear of Peter Coates with top M50 Adrian Mussett a close third in the men’s race.
Essex League (Steve Wilkin)
Men: 1 S Norris (S’end) 26:08; 2 P Coates (Brai ) 26:12; 3 A Mussett (Col H, M50) 26:15
TEAM: 1 Colchester 92; 2 Southend 94; 3 Havering 101
U17: 1 J Hurrell (Chelm) 20:09; 2 M Sanderson (B’wood) 20;25; 3 F Evison (Bas) 21:24
TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 14; 2 Basildon 24; 3 Harlow 38
U15: 1 J Parrott (Chelm) 14:13; 2 B Tucker (Harl) 14:23; 3 L Jopling (S’end) 14:25
TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 23; 2 Basildon 30; 3 Southend 61
U13: 1 T Ketterer (C&T) 12;28; 2 S Brown (SS) 12:29; 3 J Dalton (helm) 12:36
TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 33; 2 SS Athletics 38; 3 Basildon 54
Women: 1 K O’Neil (Hav’g) 25:43; 2 G Kersey (Bas) 25:48; 3 K Fitzgibbon (Bas) 27:24
TEAM: 1 Havering 41; 2 Colchester 44; 3 Chelmsford 50
U17: 1 E Warn (B ‘wood) 23;59; 2 L Tyler (Col H) 24:08; 3 Z Morley (Bas) 25:35
TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 24; 2 Basildon 31; 3 Colchester & Tendring 36
U15: 1 F Phillips (Chelm) 15:20; 2 I Daisy (Chelm) 15:50; 3 A Shipton (Chelm) 16:09
TEAM: 1 Chelmsford 22; 2 Basildon 30; 3 SS Athletics 65
U13: 1 I Kehoe (Chelm) 12;58; 2 B Castleton-Cooke (Chelm) 13:09; 3 S Sowen (SS) 13;17
TEAM: 1 SS Athletics 21; 2 Chelmsford 26; 3 C&T 58
Essex League (Steve Wilkin)
BERKS, BUCKS & OXON CCA CHAMPIONSHIPS, Banbury, Oxfordshire, November 17
The races were held in the grounds of the medieval moated Broughton Castle and the owner, Martin Fiennes, the 22nd Baron Seye & Sele, presented many of the awards as the venue hosted a cross-country event for the first time since 1979.
The association’s treasurer is Reading AC’s Jess Gibbon, who added to her 2022 women’s title comfortably with a near two-minute victory over Newbury junior Josie Robertson, who has dominated the Oxfordshire League this year.
Gibbon has had a quiet year after winning the South of England title in January, but returned to take the Energy Vision Cross Cup in Roeselare at the end of October.
It was another under-20 who took the men’s…
CLICK HERE to Read the Full Original Article at AW…