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Lewes AC team with Haywards Heath Harriers won the Southern Athletics League match at Carshalton on Saturday 10th August by over 60 points. The team scores were Lewes AC with Haywards Heath Harriers 277 points: Holland Sports 210.5 points: Sutton and District 167 points: Invicta East Kent 116 points and Poole Runners 82.5 points. In this match Sam Brown set a new league record for…

Scott Staples broke the club’s Javelin record for the third time in eight days with a distance 45.60m at Horsham open meeting, Sunday 4th August 46.51 at the under Sussex under 15 league match at Eastbourne on Wednesday 7th August and again on Sunday 11th August at the inter counties meeting to take second place with a throw 48.08m. This puts Scott up into 11th…

As part of a hectic period for Lewes AC members Livvy Connor was selected to represent Sussex in the Southern Counties under 20 Inter Counties Competition. Livvy competed in the Pole Vault and cleared 3.50m to gain third place. This was a truly impressive performance considering many in the event were four years older.

There was great and exciting racing at the Herstmonceux Castle Relays last week. With teams of four each running a leg of something over 1.5miles the Lewes AC men’s A team was just second behind a strong Hastings AC team. The Hastings team completed the four laps in 29mins.22secs with the Lewes team under 30 seconds behind in 29mins 49secs. Josh Burgess ran the fastest…

At the last match of the season at the Erith Stadium the under 17 and under 20 Team Sussex Team which has members from East Grinstead and Haywards Heath as well as Lewes AC secured a solid third position in the League. Winning the Southern part of the league was Crawley AC with 27 points followed by Ashford with 24 points and Team Sussex with…

At the last under 13 league match of the season at Eastbourne the Lewes AC came a very credible second behind a strong Brighton and Hove team. This was also the position of the Lewes team at the end of all three League matches. Brighton scoring 15 points to the 13 scored by Lewes followed by Phoenix with 9 points, Eastbourne 5 points and Hastings…

Pat Cook is the first winner of the inaugural Masters Mantell Challenge a new event put on for Lewes AC members. Run over 5.4 miles of the Sussex Downs each runner has a staggered start time with the slower runners starting before the faster runners. The aim of the event is to give every runner an equal opportunity to win the Masters Mantell Trophy. Over…