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Kent County Cross Country Championships

6th January 2018
their collective efforts were too strong and crossed the line
Blackheath and Bromley HAC good enough to secure team in 1st, 2nd and 3rd. George’s
young athletes got 2018 off to bronze. An impressive run great effort guaranteed him 4th
a winning start, collecting an from Pablo Seema Roca in 14th, place just ahead of Max Gregson
impressive medal haul at a very Sam Reardon, only just back and Ben Campbell finishing
cold Brands Hatch, in the Kent to training, a solid 18th and a strongly in 5th and 6th. So with
County Cross Country Champi- fast finishing Freddy Georgiou Invicta 1,2,3 and BB,4, 5, 6 the
onships. Over 50 BB’s youngsters in 24th completed the scoring fourth runner was all important
braved the bitter cold, but dry four. Jake Leng was a good 31st, and how pleased were we to see
conditions and finished the day Bailey Marks in his first County sprint hurdler Oliver Robertson
winning two team trophies, two Championship was 39th, Will sprinting for the line, crossing
individual golds, one individual Andrews 42nd, Jean Sammutt in an impressive 12th place. We
bronze and winning team medals 47th and Nick Paddington 50th. had yet to see the fourth Invicta
in all but one age group. athlete but the BB boys kept
The U13 boys have a full coming in, with Jamie Sears
strength squad but were up having a great run in 25th and
Our most successful age group against other strong clubs. Sam Stuart having a strong
was the U15’s where we secured Towards the end of an exciting race placing 34th. Ted Marston
comfortable individual victories race it was clear the team title looked strong finishing 39th
in both the boys and girls races. was being fought between two and Jake Anthony did well to
Morgan Squibb looked superb clubs, as Invicta East Kent AC finish 57th despite having very
winning her 4.1k race with a and BBHAC held all the top 6 sore heels. Oles Chaban was
14 second cushion over second places, three a piece Two Invicta 70th and great to have Matt
place and Oliver Bright won lads were pulling clear and BB’s Smith back in the team after a
the boys 4.4k race with a more young George Shaw pushed on couple of major set backs and
modest 5 second gap. trying to break Invicta’s mo- he can now build on this with
confidence going forward. In
nopoly but the Invicta lads were confidence going forward. In
nopoly but the Invicta lads were
The U15 girls squad have been
strong all winter and so winning
the team trophy was no surprise.
Following Morgan home was
Ellie Dolby in a fine 4th place
with Zoe White also having
a great race, finishing 5th.
Showing our strength in depth
Jess Neal was a strong 8th,
Bethany Panton an impressive
10th and then in close proximity
were Ellie Osmond 13th, Olivia
Berry 14th, Kelsey Pullin 15th,
followed by Ruby Dunkley 20th
and Emily Davis 24th.
In the boys race Oliver Bright
went two places better than in
his only other previous Kent
Championships, winning his
first Kent County title. Oliver Individually our athletes have been solid but collectively they were
led a big BB squad home and impressive