The Greater Manchester Track & Field Championships took place over the weekend of 13th and 14th May at Trafford AC. East Cheshire’s Jake Smith has made the headlines this weekend with a brilliant Gold medal in the under 17 men’s high jump, with a magnificent jump of 1.66 meters. Jake had a special supporter with …
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The British Inter Counties Fell Running Championships 2017 took place on Saturday 13th May at Broughton in Scotland. As you can imagine the course was very tough over 9.6km with 600m of climbing. East Cheshire had 3 representatives taking part in Joe Steward, Tom McGuinness and Scott Matthews who were representing Greater Manchester on the …
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The London Marathon 2017 took place today with 5 East Cheshire representatives taking part in what were very good conditions, but getting warmer as the day went on. First to complete the 26.2 mile distance for ECH was overseas athlete Lee Grantham with a terrific new personal best time of 2.21.43 to finish in an …
The Manchester Marathon took place today in nice, sunny conditions with 9 East Cheshire athlete’s completing the 26.2 miles. Chris Swire was first home for ECH running a brilliant time of 2.50.37, finishing 132nd overall and 13th in his Vet 45 age category. Next home was Mark Millns in 3.17.24 (1067th overall and 249th Vet …
On a beautiful spring Saturday morning there were always going to be distractions but those who turned out found a very well organised relay race hosted by community club East Cheshire Harriers. The venue for once was not the clubs track or grassy cross country course but the tarmac of the cycle track next door.Totally …
ECH athlete Mike Coogan competed for Great Britain in the World Masters Indoor Athletics Championships in Daegu/Korea over the weekend. Mike ran in the 400m vet 40 category taking part in the preliminaries and semi-final on Friday 24th March. Mike won both the preliminary and semi final heats in 54.91 and 53.44 respectively to make …
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Well done to the 12 men who took part in the North of England 12 stage relays at Stanley Park in Blackpool on Saturday 25th March. Legs 1,3,5 and 7 were 2 laps over 9.5K and the rest of the legs were 1 lap which were 5.2K long. The course was relatively flat and in …
Yesterday (Saturday 25th March) a number of our young athletes competed in the National Primary School finals, at Prestworld Hall. Well done to all of the below, fantastic efforts all round! Year 5 Girls: Madeline Stout – 21st Emily Bowker – 96th Year 5 Boys: Luke Carrington – 56th Cole Wright – 175th Edward Rankin …
Well done to our ECH representatives at the English Schools Cross Country Championships in Norwich on Saturday 18th March. Keenan Owen finished 37th in the inter boys race over 6K, George Lewis finished 85th in the senior boys race over 7.2K and Megan Lewis finished 211th in the junior girls race over 3.25K who all …
Thanks to all ECH & TAC members who helped at the Junior Open Cross-Country event today (Sunday) at Richmond Park Stadium – Particularly Wendy Andrews as main organiser, Martin Lewis (computer and results), George as Hare, Megan as results runner, Saul Gallagher, Martin McGann and Neil for setting up and taking down the course, Eddie as …