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Skinner Secures World Championships Place

Michael Skinner has secured selection for the Great Britain team for the World Cross Country Championships at Edinburgh at the end of the month. The Blackheath & Bromley athlete finished in third place in the Trials race which was incorporated into the Inter Counties Cross Country Championships at Nottingham.

Skinner is well used to running for Britain at major championships. Last year he was the second Briton to finish when the World Championships were held in Mombassa, Kenya and he was also 17th in the European Championships in Spain last December.

At Nottingham, Andrew Rayner finished in 67th place with James Poole 107th and helped the Kent team finish 6th out of 30 teams. Shavaun Henry was 120th in the Senior Womens race.

Alex Bruce Littlewood continued his return from injury with a useful 42nd in the Under 20 mens race.

Danielle Critchley rounded off a successful Winter campaign by finishing 39th in the under 15 girls race with Michelle Fewster 181st. For the boys Phil Sesemann was 46th with Hector Kurtyanek 75th.

In the under 13s race Jessica Jones was 161st with Hannah Cook 290th.

A large number of Club members were in action at the Hastings Half Marathon. Jamie Atkinson continued his preparations for this years London Marathon by finishing 5th in 69.47 a very respectable time on what is a testing course.

Next home was Darryl Hilliar in 48th in 81.16 with Andy Tucker third in 82.27. First woman home was Jane Bradshaw in 194th with 89.33 followed by Kate Pratten (497th 97.12) and Carolyna Jones Baldock (797th in 1.43.11) Results. 5th. Jamie Atkinson 01:09:47. 48th. Darryl Hilliar 01:21:16. 63rd. Andy Tucker 01:22:35. 69th. Robert Hall 01:23:14. 71st. Richard Hall 01:23:28. 77th. Antony Mulcock 01:24:01. 140th.Steven Pairman 01:27:27. 186th.Clayton Aves 01:29:19. 194th. Jane Bradshaw 01:29:33. 257th Martin Blunden 01:31:23 304th. John McConville 01:32:52 497th. Kate Pratten 1:37:12 504th. Trevor Delahoy 01:37:19. 567th. Mark Skelly 01:38:32. 645th.John Fenwick 01:40:25 707th. Andy Riches 01:41:34. 797th. Carolyna Jones-Baldock 01:43:11 838th. Annie McDonough 01:43:42 877th. Justine Eastbury 01:44:20 1245th. Chris Fulford-Brown 01:50:04 2090th. Colin Poole 02:02:05 2133rd. Ramon Saiz 02:02:34 2896th Fred Ward 2:18:07 3002nd Clare Pallen 02:21:09 3005th Jo Kift 02:21:09 3109th. Alan Pickering 02:24:35 3110th Mike Cronin 02:24:35 3149th Colin Illingworth 02:26:10 3169th.Tom Leeson 02:26:54 3170th. John Leeson 02:26:55.

5:47pm Tuesday 18th March 2008

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