Cross Country – Cheltenham & County Harriers

Seniors’ cross-country update

admin_cheltharriers — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:26:04 +0000

Our Seniors have been battling hard in the Midland and Birmingham XC Leagues over the course of this season.

Despite a lot of injury issues over the course of the season the women’s team finished 13th overall in the league. A strong final fixture saw Nicole Frith finish in 11th, Petra Vymetalova 62nd, Sarah Sheppard 73rd and Jo Wilkie completed the scoring team in 96th. Hannah Randall, Lucy Goode, Angela Pippard and Clare Hawling also all ran fantastically, being vital in the B team and Masters Teams.

The men’s team had a consistent season and fought hard throughout to ensure they remained in Division 2 next year. In the final fixture Robert Finch led them home in 30th, with Harrison Miles close behind in 38th. All Daitt finished in 57th, Matt Dwerryhouse was 67th and Cameron White was 82nd. Completing the scoring team was Andy Gore in 98th, the only member of the team to compete in all 4 fixtures this year – no wonder he made club history this year becoming the Harrier to have competed in the most Birmingham Leagues. 113!!

Andrew Kaighin, Ross Swain, Phil Turbard, Kevin Goodwill, Ian Giles and Michael Ede all ran superbly to form the B team

Final Gloucestershire cross country league 2024/25

admin_cheltharriers — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:40:26 +0000

The cross country season has flown by and is coming to its end already! Our athletes turned up in big numbers to compete at the final Gloucestershire Cross Country League of the season in Pittville Park.

In the first race of the day Jess Bailey came out on top winning the U11 girls category by 10 seconds. In the U11 boys race Joseph Bradshaw produced his best race of the season finishing 2nd, an improvement of 14 places on his previous top finish!

Moving up to the U13 race it was another victory for Jack Shingler, securing himself the overall league title in style. Sebastian Heath ran well to make it two Harriers in the top 3 with a 3rd place finish. Ivy Wightman also secured league victory with a 2nd place finish in the U13 girls race.

We had two 2nd place finishes in the U15 category with Oliver Wilson and Scarlett Eagland both producing superb runs.

Our U17 men and women impressed with Erin Musty taking 1st and Tom Wightman and Maddie Thomson both finishing in 3rd.

Steph Lane and Harrison Miles led the men and women home as 3rd Senior Lady and 23rd Senior Man respectively. There were plenty more top three finishes in our senior races too. Sarah Sheppard was 2nd L40, Milly Foster took 3rd U20, Clare Hawling was 1st L60, Michael Eded finished 3rd M65, Heath Bampton was 2nd M55, Andy Gore 3rd M50 and Martin Foster was 1st M45.

Congratulations to all our athletes on a fantastic season!!

January 2025 local road races

admin_cheltharriers — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:42:57 +0000

Well done to all our athletes who competed in the two local road races these past two weekends, the Linda Franks 5 and Boddington 10. Stewart Merry led the team home in the Linda Franks 5 with a time of 27:14 and there was an impressive win for Steph Lane in the women’s race with a time of 29:12. Our wheelchair athletes dominated finishing 1st and 2nd. Ed Grazier led the way finishing in 32:21 with Les Hampton coming home 2nd in 43:58. At the Boddington 10 there was a strong run by Ashley Stevens to lead the team home in 65:45.

Linda Franks 5

Stewart Merry 9th 27:14

Harrison Miles 13th 27:51

Martin Foster 24th 29:07

Steph Lane 1st 29:12

James Wilkinson 30:42

Ross Swain 33:02

Steve Bradley 33:21

Hannah Randall 35:55

Leah Hopton 36:37

Sam Pickering 39:32

Ed Grazier 1st 32:21

Les Hampton 2nd 43:58

Boddington 10

Ashley Stevens 65:45

Kev Goodwill 66:25

Ross Swain 68:44

Steve Bradley 71:37

Phil Turbard 73:14

Lucy Goode 75:41

Michael Shelton 76:23

Angela Pippard 79:08

Distance running catch up

admin_cheltharriers — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:53:20 +0000

George Watson competed in the Valencia 10k running an impressive 29:19 – one of the quickest times in the history of the club!!

Back in England Seniors were competing in the Midland and Birmingham Cross Country Leagues.

The women’s team finished in 16th place led by Ciara Thornley competing in her first Midland League and finishing in an impressive 13th place. Nicole Frith had originally finished in an amazing 9th, but unfortunately due to accidentally going off course slightly was DQ’d. The team was completed by Petra Vymetalova in 72nd, Jo Wilkie in 90th, Lucy Goode in 96th and Angela Pippard in 98th.

The men’s team came out in force finishing 9th A team and 4th B team. Led by Harrison Miles in a superb 27th with Robert Finch also making the top 50 in 35th.

Full men’s results below:

Jamie Bell 55th

Al Daitt 61st

Heath Bampton 63rd

Finlay Willicot 66th

Martin Foster 79th

Matt Dwerryhouse 90th

Andy Gore 97th

Cameron White 105th

James Wilkinson 108th

Matt Evans 129th

Phil Turbard 168th

Ross Swain 179th

Michael Ede 197th

South West Inter Counties Cross Country Championships – 2025

admin_cheltharriers — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:13:28 +0000

New year and the racing has already commenced!!

Jack Shingler has started the year with a bang taking 1st place at the South West Inter Counties Cross Country Championships. Jack crossed the line 6 seconds clear of 2nd place to secure the win.

Sam Wilson finished an impressive 2nd in the U17 mens race backing up his strong runs at the end of 2024 where he won County Schools and the most recent Glos League fixture.

Patrick Paul made it 3 Harriers achieving podium finishes with a superb run to finish 3rd in the U15 Boys race.

Well done to all Harriers who took part:

U13 Girls – Ivy Wightman 6th, Eliza Nolan 8th, Niamh Pettingell 47th

U13 Boys – Jack Shingler 1st, Ben Lewis 42nd, Lucas Oliveria 46th

U15 Boys – Patrick Paul 3rd, Oliver Wilson 11th

U17 Men – Sam Wilson 2nd, Tom Wightman 20th