CAU Inter Counties Cross Country Championships

The annual inter county championship event took place at Prestwold Hall, near Loughborough. This is the first time the event has been held there, and it proved a good venue with varying terrain and underfoot conditions.

The event was also used as the selection race for the GB teams for the World Cross country championships to be held in Kampala, Uganda later this month. This ensured that the best were out in the senior and junior races, and with the English counties along with Scotland and Wales area teams in all the other age group races it made for a very competitive set of races.

Yorkshire had another good year in the competition and were duly awarded the Best Overall team award, with 7 of their 10 teams winning team medals. Yorkshire had two individual Gold medal winners Josh Dickinson (City of York) in the U15 boys race and Jonathan Shields (City of Sheffield & Dearne AC) in the Junior men's race. This also got Jonathan automatic selection to represent GB in Kampala.

Claire Duck (Leeds City) - who was the guest of honour at the Rotherham Harriers awards evening last year - was second in the senior women's race, behind Jess Judd and another Yorkshire athlete selected for Kampala.

Mya Taylor was the best placed club athlete finishing an excellent 10th place in the U17 women's race.

Joe Massingham had a very good run to finish 18th (2nd Yorkshire team scorer) and was rewarded with a silver team medal

Sophie Cowper (representing Surrey, the winning team) was the best placed (in 23rd) of our 5 senior women who had been selected to represent their home county. Fiona Davies answered a late call on Thursday to join her 3 club team mates in the Yorkshire senior women's squad.

Rotherham Harriers Athlete results:

U13 Boys

Pos Time

156 0:13:22 433 Joshua Wragg Derbyshire

212 0:13:40 426 Samuel Gilson Derbyshire

U17 Women

10 0:20:48 Mya Taylor Yorkshire

U20 men

18 0:28:27 Joe Massingham Yorkshire

Senior Women

23 0:31:33 1305 Sophie Cowper Surrey

57 0:32:55 1385 Zara Knappy Yorkshire

68 0:33:13 1380 Stephanie Burns Yorkshire

84 0:33:46 1387 Emma Parkinson Yorkshire

136 0:35:23 1382 Fiona Davies Yorkshire

Team positions

U13 girls

1 82 Leicestershire ( 11 13 18 40 )

2 92 Yorkshire ( 15 19 28 30 )

3 95 North East ( 10 21 23 41 )

U13 boys

1 24 Surrey ( 1 4 9 10 )

2 128 Hampshire ( 6 14 25 83 )

3 138 Yorkshire ( 5 34 38 61 )

U15 Girls

1 60 Scotland West ( 2 5 24 29 )

2 78 Cheshire ( 7 11 19 41 )

3 124 Yorkshire ( 9 12 46 57 )

U15 Boys

1 46 Kent ( 7 10 12 17 )

2 72 Yorkshire ( 1 5 31 35 )

3 76 North East ( 9 18 23 26 )

U17 Women

1 36 Surrey ( 1 2 4 29 )

2 40 Scotland East ( 5 8 9 18 )

3 66 Essex ( 3 7 13 43 )

4 122 Yorkshire ( 10 21 38 53 )

U17 Men

1 49 Yorkshire ( 4 8 17 20 )

2 67 Hampshire ( 1 3 29 34 )

3 139 Kent ( 9 35 44 51 )

U20 Women

1 103 North East ( 6 19 23 55 )

2 153 Gt.Manchester ( 12 28 31 82 )

3 155 Yorkshire ( 36 38 40 41 )

U20 Men

1 48 Scotland East ( 8 11 14 15 )

2 94 Yorkshire ( 1 18 19 56 )

3 107 Kent ( 9 28 33 37 )

Senior Women

1 170 Surrey ( 5 23 27 31 38 46 )

2 199 Scotland East ( 9 14 25 41 49 61 )

3 250 Hampshire ( 4 13 21 52 58 102 )

4 299 North East ( 18 20 47 62 71 81 )

5 316 Yorkshire ( 2 44 57 67 68 78 )

Senior men

1 160 North East ( 9 10 22 23 47 49 )

2 177 Surrey ( 3 5 19 28 45 77 )

3 200 Middlesex ( 7 20 33 37 40 63 )

4 308 Hampshire ( 1 2 31 56 67 151 )

5 330 Yorkshire ( 15 17 39 82 83 94 )