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RYSTON Runners AC enjoyed some considerable success at this year’s county cross country championships.
The club came away with two county champions and at least half-a-dozen athletes selected to go forward to represent Norfolk at the inter counties in Birmingham in March.
Thea Howlett showed a clean pair of heels to the whole field in the under 11 girls’ race to take the county title.
Team-mates Caitlin Clark and Maddie Dawson were third and fourth respectively, making that race almost a Ryston whitewash and securing them the team gold medals.
Brandon Tuttle (fourth) and Charlie Wakefield (ninth) acquitted themselves well for the club in the under 11 boy’s championship.
Star of the day for the seniors was Marie French who ran a perfectly timed race to take her first ever county title in the senior women’s event, some 50 metres clear of her nearest rival from CoNAC.
Solid support for Marie in terms of the team’s effort came from Caroline Wakefield (fourth), Lesley Robins (seventh), Maureen Wolfe (16th) and Pauline Drewery (12th).
The senior men’s team took gold in their competition, headed home by James O’Neill in third place overall.
The rest of the scoring team comprised of Robert Simmonds (fourth), Andrew Simmonds (sixth) and Che Plant (tenth) for first senior men’s team.
Malcolm Tuff placed second in the M40 category (though he is actually an M45), while Nic Bensley was fourth.
l Ryston racewalker Cath Duhig had a pleasing start to the new year with a bronze medal in the SRWA area championships contested over a tricky hilly course at Mons Hill, Croydon, at the weekend.
Not expecting too much of herself as third oldest in the field and, after a rather sluggish Christmas in training terms, she was delighted to walk a fairly consistent race and cross the line in just over 63 minutes for her third place and her first Southern Counties medal for some years.
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Monday 28 May 2012
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