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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 absence of more formal...

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 events she broke...

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 & Craven as the team...