Athletics

Halmer Harriers were out in force at multiple events over the weekend – including the Long Sutton 10k. There, Colin Crump, Sophie Neal, and Gav Green all clocked personal best (PB) times as 14 Harriers all impressed. Also setting new PB times at Sunday’s Peterborough 10-Mile were Teresa Walton and Andrea Cooke. The Harriers were also at the Rutland Night ...

Nene Valley Harriers’ teenagers Molly Peel and Owen Wilkinson left the rest of the field standing in the North Midlands Cross Country League fixture at Kettering. The talented pair provided the icing on the cake to a fine display of distance running from Harriers athletes on a challenging Wicksteed Park course. In a textbook display of front running, Peel won ...

Nene Valley Harriers were on the run at Wormwood Scrubs as three teams took part in the South of England Cross Country Relays staged on the common close to the prison. The most arresting performance of the day came from the under-15 girls, who finished in a pleasing 19th place. All three athletes are in the bottom year of the ...

Molly Peel stole the show for Nene Valley Harriers in their North Midlands Cross Country League opener at Derby as she won the under-17 girls’ race by 44 seconds. Katie Tasker (sixth) and seventh-placed Amber Park, along with Peel’s fine result, helped the club to an overall team win. It was a good day for the Nene Valley girls, who ...

Athletes from Spalding-based Halmer Harriers were out in force over the weekend. Be it at Swallow (West Lindsey) on Saturday, or York and Peterborough on Sunday, the team set some solid times over various distances. The appalling weather at Peterborough – constant rain for seven hours – provided an extra challenge for those taking part in the Perkins Great Eastern ...

The Halmer Harriers-hosted West Pinchbeck 10K event attracted more than 300 entries – and was dubbed a major success. Winners on the day were Dominic Moszkal (33.12mins) and Beckie Dawson (42.30mins), while the Harriers were well represented by 18 of their own athletes. That included Sue Booth in what was her first-ever 10k run. She was awarded the club’s runner ...

Two Halmer Harriers members clocked new personal best (PB) times at the APB Humber Coastal Half Marathon over the weekend. Both Colin Crump (1.44.54hrs) and Steve Tucker (2.13.07hrs) shone at the Cleethorpes course, which was a tricky mixed surface race of trail, coastal path and road. Lisa Gill also finished in 2.13.07hrs, having paced for team-mate Tucker. Meanwhile, Liz Johnson ...

Four members of Spalding’s Halmer Harriers completed the Great North run on Sunday. Teresa Walton (2.13.54hrs), Amy St Quinton (2.18.15hrs), Liz Johnson (2.24.51hrs) and Nicky Hastings (2.24.52hrs) all impressed on Tyneside. Also in action was Dawn Allen, one of the club’s Couch to 5k graduates. She ran the East Coast Classic 10k at Mablethorpe in a time of 1.05.01hrs.

By Barry Warne Nene Valley Harriers’ veteran athletes carried out a smash and grab close to Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter last weekend. The scene of the raid was the British Masters Athletics Federation Championship at the Alexandria Stadium – and the Smith family were amongst the prolific plunderers. Clare Smith picked up the over-40 200m and 400m gold medals with clockings ...

By Barry Warne Athletes from Nene Valley Harriers were in fine form at the England Athletics under-15 and under-17 Track and Field Championship at Bedford. One of the highlights saw Freddie Fraser storm to gold over the 80m hurdles with a sizzling time of 10.91secs. Lydia Church went one better, winning two golds in the disability championship. Church, throwing into ...

Two members of Spalding’s Halmer Harriers took on tough tests over the weekend. Despite being on holiday, the dedicated Andrea Cooke opted to compete in the Blanes Night Race in Spain. Cooke completed the hilly 8km course and finished in a very respectable time of 53.48mins. Team-mate Teresa Walton was also in action at the Kimbolton half-marathon. She managed to ...

Nene Valley’s Edgars Sumskis won the Werrington 5k event as he edged out series champion Jake Richardson. Lincoln Wellington AC’s Richardson has won three of the five races in the series, but was well beaten by Sumskis who was making his debut over the distance on the road this season. The lead runners were well spread out with Sumskis speeding ...

Nene Valley Harriers’ under-15 girls pulled off a fine victory in their Eastern Young Athletes League fixture at the Embankment Track – and the under-15 boys almost emulated them when finishing as runners-up. Francesca Fenwick pulled off a fine hat-trick of wins for the-under 15’s. She clocked 12.1secs to cross the line first in the 75m hurdles and added to ...

Nene Valley Harriers’ older athletes can look forward to a Sunday outing to Milton Keynes after both the men and ladies qualified for the September finals of The Eastern Masters Track and Field League. Both teams finished as runners-up to King’s Lynn based Ryston Runners in the meeting at Corby. This also meant the Harriers came in second overall to ...

A new chapter in the Nene Valley Harriers story was written when the club won promotion from the UK Women’s Athletic League Division Three in their first season of national level competition. Having led the league going into the season’s finale at Lee Valley the Harriers had a fighting chance of winning the division. But a solid third place on ...

Teenage Nene Valley Harriers ace Lydia Church picked up the shot putt silver medal in the England Athletics Para Championships held at Sports City Manchester. The 18 year-old, who is the grand-daughter of Harriers founder member Ray Church, threw a distance of 10.39m and was only beaten by an Olympic medallist. Church competes in the F12 category for visually impaired ...

A host of Halmer Harriers took on the daunting Grim Reaper 40 ultra marathon event on Friday. Held amid blistering conditions at Grimsthorpe, all of the Harriers did well just to finish the event – but they certainly weren’t there to just make up the numbers. Sarah-Jane McDonald (who was also representing Three Counties Running Club) and Di Morris were ...

A host of Halmer Harriers’ athletes took on the Heckington ten-mile race on Saturday. It was the first ten-mile event some of the athletes have attempted with the Spalding club, so it is now hoped they’ll be tackling the half-marathon distance before the year is out. Three Halmer Harriers, Rob Hammond, Steve Tucker and Di Morris, are taking on the ...

Nene Valley Harriers secured a magnificent victory on their UK Women’s Athletics League debut at Bedford. Despite never having competed at this level before as a team, the Harriers were sensational in the Division Three fixture, writes BARRY WARNE. Team captain Devon Spencer led by example, winning the B triple jump with a distance of 9.94m. Spencer also collected valuable ...

The future of Nene Valley Harriers looks to be in very safe hands after several youngsters stepped up to the senior team and helped their club to second place in the Southern League Division One fixture at Reading. Molly Peel has recently joined Nene Valley from Bourne Town Harriers – and the 16-year-old made her mark at by winning the ...