Club News

The first of the Northern Indoor open meeting saw 15 york athletes in action. Standout performances came from Nathaniel Wade who had a storming run in the 150m with a time of 16.83 the fastest U17 and 2nd fastest overall the ages groups U17+. He also won his heat of the 60m (7.38). Seb Goodridge also in 60m (7.28) 1st in his heat and 3rd overall U20 and 150m (17.25) a win in his heat and finished the 2nd quickest U20 overall. This was his first indoor appearance. PBs came f

The 2 nd race in the West Yorkshire Cross Country League took place at Wakefield on Sunday with 49 runners from the club taking part.   Both the club’s senior teams came 3 rd in the team events. Niamh McLaughlin came 2 nd in the Women’s race to Leeds City’s Charlotte Van Zelst. Sophie Robertson-Dover was 1 st under 20 in 14 th with Jodi Bemand 19 th and Chrissie Dover running her 2 nd race of the weekend to be 2 nd vet 45 in 22 nd . Mark Bolland-Cage led home the men’

A quiet week for the club’s distance runners with no club event taking place nor an obvious local road race.   Jessica Robertson-Dover, Niamh McLoughlin, Jodo Bemand and Jack Haynes helped University of York come 2 nd in the mixed team category at the Manchester Relays on Saturday. Ed Brown also ran at this event for Birmingham University.   Lucy Davey ran 19.26 at last Wednesday’s Leeds University 5k.   Nigel Taylor ran 50.07 in Sunday’s Haltemprice 10k at Hull.   The absen

City of York AC athletes John Moreland, Rebecca Perry and Yvette Alexander delivered a superb set of performances at the European Masters Athletics Championships  in Madeira  this month - returning home with two European titles , three medals , and multiple club records . Rebecca Perry  made a remarkable Masters debut, becoming European Champion in the W35 100m  and taking bronze in her first ever Heptathlon over the first weekend of the competition . Across the eight event

The Northern Cross Country Relays took place on Saturday at their usual venue of Graves Park in Sheffield.   The under 17 women’s team came within 7 seconds of a medal as they came 4th. Beth Lewis ‘won’ the opening leg in a time of 7.32 for the 2.3k leg. This time turned out to be the fastest leg of the race. Lucy Davey dropped two places to 3rd as she ran 8.43 for the 2nd leg. Nina Hopkins then ran 8.59 for the last leg but was passed late on by the runner from Keighley & Cr