Yorkshire County Cross Country Championships 2012

A very windy day in Wakefield did not deter our young athletes from delivering truly stunning team and individual performances at the County Championships today. We took home more young athletes team medals (4) than any other club in the County!

A very convincing run from Josh Naisbitt earned him individual Gold in the U15 Boys race, and Alfie Manthorpe worked hard to achieve a well deserved individual Bronze in the U13 Boys. In the team results, our U13 Girls (Amelia Lancaster, Mariella De Lara, Emily Simpson) took team Bronze, U13 Boys (Alfie Manthorpe, Christian Mills, George Finlay) team Silver, U15 Boys (Josh Naisbitt, Jonathan Shields, Evan Webb) team Gold, and finally our U17 Ladies (Eve Pound, Beth Ansell, Calvi Thompson) team Gold. Five of our athletes made the Yorkshire County teams for the UK CAU Inter Counties match in March - Amelia Lancaster, Alfie Manthorpe, Josh Naisbitt, Jonathan Shields and Eve Pound. Yorkshire is one of the toughest counties to qualify in - very well done to all of you. It was a very hard race in the wind, and everyone who took part deserves recognition for completing the course.

Very well done to all of you. Commiserations to Laurie Young and Anina Atkinson who were unable to finish due to illness and injury. I hope you both feel better soon. This match's amusing moment was supplied by Susannah Curran who noticed that she wasn't wearing her number as the gun fired at the start. Ken Curran then ran faster than most Senior Men over 500 metres to deliver it to her at the end of the first lap. Well done to both of you! Evan Webb came a close second with getting to Barnsley before realising he hadn't packed his spikes. Many thanks to the Lancaster family for providing a spare pair. Big thanks to Sam Ellis and Lydia Chamberlin for huge amounts of help packing up the gazebo after the event.

Special thanks to Isabelle pound for  all the hard work that she puts into organising the team.

Team results are summarised below. Full results will be available on www.northernathletics.org.uk and CoSAC are summarised below. Senior results will follow.

U13 Girls

 

 

Amelia Lancaster

7th

11:04

Mariella De Lara

17th

11:59

Emily Simpson

21st

12:04

U13 Boys

 

 

Alfie Manthorpe

3rd

10:17

Christian Mills

11th

10:46

George Finlay

23rd

11:22

Rhys Brown

47th

12:27

U15 Girls

 

 

Ellie Curran

13th

15:00

Sophie Taylor

20th

15:32

Georgia Hird

36th

16:55

U15 Boys

 

 

Josh Naisbitt

1st

15:03

Jonathan Shields

5th

15:44

Evan Webb

17th

16:47

Matt Chaib

24th

17:10

Joe Hibbert

28th

17:22

U17 Ladies

 

 

Eve Pound

7th

17:54

Beth Ansell

11th

18:26

Calvi Thompson

13th

18:35

Laura Goodwin

19th

19:08

Susannah Curran

35th

21:42

U17 Men

 

 

Joe Lancaster

15th

21:15

 
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Young Athletes League 2012

Match 1  6 May
 
Preston
Match 2  20 May Sheffield
Match 3  17 June
 
Leeds
Aux Final 1 Sept TBC