Results Round Up

This week we have results to round up for you from Brecon, Snowdonia, Basingstoke and Stroud.

Wednesday 22nd October was the Welsh Secondary Inter Schools & Colleges Cross Country Championships at Brecon. There was a record entry from schools with over 1,300 pupils finishing the races. The weather was kind as well as the underfoot conditions. Our top five runners home in each race were:

U14G 8th Molly Mae McQueen (Dylan Thomas), 10th Emily Evans-Williams (Maes Y Gwendraeth), 23rd Elsie Davies (Ysgol Dyffryn Amman), 39th Ruby Harvey-Flinn (Bishopston) and 53rd Heidi Wagstaff (Bishopston).

U14B 11th Tomi Jones (Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr), 92nd Rhys Abbott (Olchfa), 108th Jack Collins (Olchfa), 232nd Ren Filburn (Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr) and 301st Max Hobson (Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr).

U16G 4th Isabelle Lawley (Whitchurch), 7th Lyla Jonsson (Bishopston), 13th Zoe Thompson (Olchfa), 18th Rosie Jones (Olchfa) and 19th Eliza Parry (Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr).

U16B 4th Jack Griffiths (Olchfa), 49th Thomas Evans-Williams (Maes Y Gwendraeth), 68th Bo Cuthbertson (Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr), 72nd Lucas Gibbs (Olchfa) and 77th Tomos Pugh (Ysgol Gyfyn Gwyr).

U18&20W saw a fantastic win for Holly Humphreys (Ysgol Gyfyn Gwyr), 7th Chloe Hartley-Green (Olchfa), 15th Lottie Robinson (Olchfa), 23rd Gwennan Griffiths (Ysgol Gyfy Gwyr) and 24th Tabitha Ventress-Brett (Olchfa).

U18&20M 29th Deri Jones (Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr) who was our only runner.

Very well done to all those who ran in what was a massive event and entry, click here for the full results.

Saturday 25th October was the Marathon Eryri run around and up and down the foothills of Snowdon arguably the toughest Marathon race in the UK! The bitterly cold horizontal rain and biting winds made the race even more challenging for the runners. All this didn’t deter Michael Kallenberg who had an awesome run after placing 2nd twice in the last few years to win the race in a time of  2.33.56, congratulations Michael that was amazing! Michael was our first winner in 27 years (1998) since Mark Roberts. Following Michael home were 29th Daniel Gurmin 3.04.00, 136th Joe Tucker 3.26.28, 345th Daniel Thomas 3.51.44, and 1068th Christopher Jones 5.10.27. In the Women first home with a great run for 12th was Megan Williams in 3.26.25 followed across the line by 66th Lois Woodward 4.02.17, 135th Vanessa Harragan 4.18.49, , 137th Christine Webb 4.19.27, 155th Caroline Morgan 4.24.00 and 179th Audrey Alies 4.28.17 and 202nd Angela Delaney 4.32.26. Very well done all!

Saturday 25th October was the Basingstoke Throws Winter series where Rebecca Pratt threw 8.49m Shot, 21.68m Discus, 26.27m Javelin and 36.61m Hammer, well done Rebecca!

Sunday 26th October was the Stroud Half Marathon where Steven Taylor finished in 1.20.00, well done Steven!