Club runners took to the turf at Tatton Park in Knutsford on January 25 to fight for medals in this historic championship
Angus McMillan and Lauren Heyes took the senior titles at a gloriously sunny Tatton Park where nearly 400 men and over 200 women finished in the parkland.
Salford and City of Leeds took senior team golds.
Men’s start (David Hewitson)
Men
It was close in the senior men’s race as Tommy Power and Harry Wakefield added the minor podium places but it was the in-form Angus McMillan, the triple Yorkshire champion who came out on top.
A beaten second last year, McMillan had ‘won’ the competitive first stage of the Autumn Northern Road Relay and posted a second-place finish in the Berry Hill Park cross-country relays first stage in November.
Second placed Tommy Power had been headed by McMillan in that Yorkshire event at the beginning of January, a race which showed improvement on the Hallamshire runner’s eighth spot in the Northern last year.
Back in a close third, Harry Wakefield led Salford to the team title but has only been active in running for a bout five years and now races mainly on the track where the England Athletics 1500-metre title came his way last year.
It was his first major cross-country championship outing so third spot and top team was good reward.
Angus McMillan (David Hewitson)
Men: 1 A McMillan (York) 35:57; 2 T Power (Hallam) 36:03; 3 H Wakefield (Salf) 36:07; 4 R Allen (Leeds) 36:16; 5 M Wharton (Sale) 36:32; 6 M Nuttall (B’burn) 36:32
TEAM: 1 Salford 106; 2 Leeds114; 3 Sale 167
Tommy Power, Angus McMillan and Harry Wakefield (David Hewitson)
Women
Lauren Heyes has much more experience of championship running and stretched the field out before winning comfortably from Sophie Tarver by about 150-metres.
Katy Wood was a similar distance further back in third spot but the team title went to City of Leeds, who were led home by fourth placed Jenny Walsh and closed their scoring four in the top nine places.
More than 16 years ago, Heyes ran in the world and European cross-country championships with a third spot in the 2008 Euro junior race standing out, before several more representative honours in Euro and World events.
Katy Wood, Lauren Hayes, Sophie Tarver (David Hewitson)
Since then, the Hallamshire Harrier has been a constant presence after winning the Northern under-20 title in 2009 and was second in this race last year and in 2018 and 2019.
For Tarver, who moved up from third last year, this was a first 2025…
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