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Lennon needs gold to fulfil Serbian dream
2:45pm Friday 10th July 2009
ACCRINGTON athlete Leigh Lennon insists she won’t settle for second best as she bids to end five years of hurt at the Aviva English Schools Track and Field Championships.
Have your say »It’s three in row for Fell ace Hope
12:10pm Thursday 9th July 2009
ROB Hope has won his third successive British Fell Championship, and with a race still to go, James Kevan is the U23 champion for the second time.
Robbie must wait for Euro championships
3:10pm Thursday 9th July 2009
Robbie Schofield’s battle to reach the qualifying standard for the European Junior Championships will go to the last weekend after he fell short in the British Athletics League Meeting in Manchester.
Ashley’s bronze joy in Germany
2:50pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
Ashley Kay has helped the England Boys’ Fell Running Team to the bronze medal in the World Youth Challenge at Ostheim vor der Rhoen in Germany.
Thompson goes close at Aggies
2:46pm Tuesday 7th July 2009
The Aggies Staircase Race got Darwen Dashers’ Summer Fell Series off to a cracking start with 165 runners taking part, twice the size of last year’s field and the highest since the Dashers took over the organisation.
Green to claim Grand Prix title
4:28pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
THE Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix has reached its summer break with Keighley’s Amy Green seemingly set to regain her women’s title after winning the last six races.
Trio are crowned as champs of England
9:03am Thursday 2nd July 2009
THREE local athletes have become national champions after success at the England Athletics U20 Championships in Bedford.
Blackburn races to return
9:04am Thursday 2nd July 2009
THE Celebrate Blackburn Town Centre Races will return for a second year on Sunday, July 12, after a successful debut event in 2008.
Flanagan picked for Great Britain team
2:38pm Tuesday 30th June 2009
Roy Flanagan has been selected for the Great Britain Duathlon Team at the ITU World Age Group Championships at Concord, North Carolina, in the United States.
Duo picked for Lancashire team
11:17am Thursday 25th June 2009
ROBBIE Schofield and Oliver Aspden have been chosen for the Lancashire Schools’ Team after winning bronze medals at the English Schools’ Championships 12 months ago.
A magnificent seven winners
11:17am Thursday 25th June 2009
THERE was a magnificent haul of seven gold medals for East Lancashire athletes at the North of England Senior and U20 Track and Field Championships at SportCity in Manchester.
Rossendale runner, 62, marks end of chemotherapy with 5k race
8:10pm Wednesday 24th June 2009
A FORMER champion runner defied medical advice to complete a long- distance run marking the end of his treatment for stomach cancer.
Eleanor keeps it in the family for appeal
8:33am Friday 19th June 2009
The daughter of one of the region’s best known runners, Maureen Laney, has flown out to Malawi to overlook work on a new classroom which has been made possible thanks to the generosity of local athletes.
Fish hooks first call for England
8:32am Friday 19th June 2009
Ben Fish has received his first international call and will represent England in the marathon after just three races over the distance.
Vaulter Phil is poles apart as Harriers storm to lead
6:02pm Tuesday 16th June 2009
Rossendale Harriers won their Division 3WC match at Leeds to go top of the Northern Track and Field League.
Clean sweep for Broome sisters
4:00pm Thursday 11th June 2009
Paddy’s Pole, near Chipping, saw Dan Edwards leading Chorley Harriers home followed by Nicki Rushton who took fourth prize in the ladies race.
Schofield in 800m Inter title
3:04pm Thursday 11th June 2009
Robbie Schofield has won the 800m at the UK Inter Counties Annual Track and Field Championships, and there were silver medals for javelin thrower Eloise Manger and discus specialist Sarah Henton.
Life’s a walk in the park for Payn, 76
3:03pm Thursday 11th June 2009
Chorley Athletic Club chairman John Payn is still improving at the age of 76, and the evidence is tangible as he returned from Denmark this week with two gold medals in his luggage.
Blackburn Harriers look on champion form
2:51pm Thursday 11th June 2009
Defending Division One champions Blackburn Harriers have advanced to the top of the league after a resounding win in the second round of the Northern Track and Field League.
Runners to unite to honour Ken
2:51pm Thursday 11th June 2009
A RACE in honour of the inspirational Rossendale Harrier Ken Taylor will be held on Saturday, June 20.
Top class field as Witton hosts meet
5:33pm Friday 5th June 2009
There will be first class track and field athletics on view at Witton Park this Saturday when Blackburn Harriers host a Northern Senior League Premier Division meeting.
Hyndburn close after Sumner sprint double
5:33pm Friday 5th June 2009
STEPHEN Sumner landed a sprint double as the Mid Lancs Track and Field League made the first of two visits to East Lancashire this summer.
Rossendale Harrier gets England call for World event
3:46pm Tuesday 2nd June 2009
ROSSENDALE Harrier Ashley Kay has been selected to run for England at the World Youth Challenge on June 27 at Ostheim vor der Rhoen in Germany.
Silver day has a cloud for Ballard
11:29am Thursday 28th May 2009
Michael Churm won a silver medal for Great Britain at the BT Paralympic World Cup but there was the ultimate disappointment for Graeme Ballard, who missed out on a bronze after the adjudicators appeared to change their minds on a photo finish decision.
Lindsay in Gebrselassie race
3:10pm Thursday 21st May 2009
BRIERFIELD athlete Ben Lindsay had the thrill of lining up against the man widely acclaimed as the world’s greatest ever distance athlete when he took part in the men’s elite race at the Manchester BUPA 10K.
Duo to represent Lancashire in Bedford
4:20pm Thursday 21st May 2009
BUSY Ribble Valley athletes Robbie Schofield and Leigh Lennon will be at Bedford this weekend to represent the senior Lancashire track and field team at the Inter Counties Championships. Schofield, who runs in the 800m, will be joined in the men’s squad by Blackburn Harrier Paul Whittle in the 110m hurdles while Lennon will drop a distance to the 400m for the women.
Young guns are fired up again
1:00pm Thursday 21st May 2009
TWO of the youngest athletes, Sophie Hitchon and Robbie Schofield, left some of the most favourable impressions at the McCain Loughborough International last Sunday.
Yates lodges victory
12:20pm Thursday 21st May 2009
RIBBLE Valley athlete Sam Yates was quickly into his stride when the Northern Divison 2 clubs started their campaigns in the Young Athletes League.
Runners duo romp to victory
6:01pm Wednesday 20th May 2009
Janet Horrocks and Shafiq Khan were first time winners of Blackburn Road Runners’ Road Race Championships in 2008.
Toman wins in West Yorks
6:00pm Wednesday 20th May 2009
The Championship season is in full swing for the fell runners with the juniors and seniors seeing action over the same weekend in West Yorkshire and Scotland.
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