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The sun was shining brightly on Stanborough Lakes on Sunday but that didn’t mean there was no mud as nearly 30 SNHAC athletes took part in the Herts County Cross Country Championships. Best team performance of the day was the U17 Men (Will Galliford, Isaac Whitten and Tyler Wannerton) who took gold to become county champions. There were also 2 team silvers for the Under 15 girls (Abigail Manson, Charlotte Livingston and Imogen Rose) and Under 13 Boys (Aubrey Murray, Casey Wyatt and Evan Robson). Oliver Rose was a double medallist in the Under 11 Boys, in a fast finish he held off the opposition to take an individual bronze and was then joined by James Cook and Matthew Creak to take team bronze. In the Under 13 girls Esme Searle ran a fantastic race to take an individual bronze. The team of Esme, Jane and Lauren Griffin, Hannah Cook and Eleanor Roberts narrowly missed out on a team medal, finishing in 4th place. In other races Will Toffa, George Fifield and Harrison Lund made up the U15 boys team that came 6th and Hazel Spitzer (4th overall) and Ellie Morris made great debuts in the U11 girls races. Alex Gates (37th) and Adam Searle (57th) completed the senior women’s and men’s races respectively to ensure SNHAC had finishers in every race.

Meanwhile 150 miles north in Sheffield, Oscar Jopp was competing in the national indoor combined championships having travelled back from the USA. PBs in the 60m (7.63 seconds), long jump (6.30m) and shot (10.68m) saw him make a superb start before 3 fails in the pole vault saw him slip back to finish in 15th.

Club athletes return to action next weekend in the next round of the Chiltern Cross Country League in Milton Keynes as well as various indoor competitions through the rest of January.