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Sale Harriers junior section finished the cross-country season on a high note with races over hay-bale obstacles on home turf at Crossford Bridge. One hundred and ten athletes turned out for the club, many of whom were making their club debut and they impressed with many fine performances. In the six races, we gained five team victories against opposition from clubs from all over the North-West.

CAITLIN WETTERS had a great run to finish 2^nd in the U13 girl's race and with ISABELLE CONNOLLY and ISLA ANDERSON won the team race from Wirral AC.

DAN OAKES was on top form in finishing runner's up in the U13 boy's race and, with GEORGE HORSFALL and JAKE HARRISON, won the team race from St. Helen's with Salford H & AC in 3^rd place.

LUCY O'BRIEN was the U9 winner last year and ran exceptionally well to finish runner-up in this year's U11 girl's race and with AMBER KAHN and ISLA QUINN won the team race by a comfortable margin.

Sale beat Manchester Harriers to win the U11 boy's team race with LENNY ALVES (3^rd), TOBY HARRISON (4^th) and ARTHUR O'HARE (5^th) as the club's counters.

Sale won the U9 girl's team race beating Bury AC by a narrow margin with MIMI GRIFFITHS, ALICE SCHOFIELD and SOFIA KIRWIN scoring for Sale.

Despite excellent runs from THEO MILLER (4^th), SEB GROVES (5^th) and HARRY Mc LOONE (6^th) in the U9 boy's race Warrington AC beat Sale by one point.

In all Sale athletes were awarded 40 plaques and medals for their performance.

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EVENT CANCELLED

Due to the poor weather this event has now been cancelled.

Due to the adverse weather conditions and forecast the Championship is postponed until Saturday 07 January. GMAA say that all entries received will be transferred and no other entries will be accepted.

WEEKEND HEADLINES 26^th/27^th November 2022.

SIAB INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS PENTATHLON

U17 THEA BROWN continued her incredible year and added the SIAB International Schools Pentathlon Championship title to her amazing collection. She also did it in style with a fantastic PB in the 60m hurdles of 8.57 seconds which earned 1000 points in her pentathlon.

WTCS WORLD TRIATHLON

GEORGIA TAYLOR-BROWN finished a gallant 2ndto Bermuda's Olympic & Commonwealth Champion Flora Duffy who claimed her record 4thWTCS World Championship Title in Abu Dhabi.

Following an epic season both came to the Final with three wins apiece. Georgia had won at Yokohama in May becoming the first European woman in a decade to win in Yokohama. She won again in the stifling heat of Montreal in June and in Cagliari in October she secured her 3rd win over Flora Duffy leaving them neck-and -neck going to the weekend's final. In a stunning battle between the two, both were locked together throughout the swim and bike phases but a decisive move by Flora Duffy in the run gave her the WTCS World Title.

MANCHESTER SPORTS AWARDS

SUCCESS EDUAN and LEONARDO SCOTT were recognised in the 2022 Manchester Sports Awards held at the Kimpton Tower Hotel in Manchester. Inspirational Success won the “Senior Sports Achiever” for having won the England Athletics U20 Championships Indoor and Outdoor 200m then represented GB & NI at the World U20 Championships in Colombia where she reached the semi-finals. Leonardo won the 'Junior Young Achiever of the Year” Award for his part in Gtr. Manchester's team at July's ESSA England Schools Athletics Championships where he reached the semi-finals. Both are coached by ANITA RICHARDSON and her team at Sportcity. (Anita won last year's “Community Coach Award”).

EURO CROSS TRIALS

OSCAR SCHOFIELD showed awesome class in the U17 race at the British Athletics Cross Challenge in Liverpool which hosted the European Cross Country Championships Trials. From the gun, he impressively took the race by the scruff of the neck looking very strong throughout and continued to crank up the pressure to eventually reduce the lead group to just four. On the final lap it became a two horse race between him with Isaac Morris (Cambridge & Coleridge) sticking to his shoulder like glue and to break away in the final 800m for Oscar to miss victory by just a whisker!

Other super performances in this classy fields from throughout Britain were DANIEL OAKES 11thin the U13 race, IZZY HALL 25thin the U15 race, AKIRA EDGSON (41st), LUCY ARMITAGE (46th) and KATIE STRINGER 58th) in the Junior Women's race and SARAH GOULDEN (148th) in the senior race.

FESTIVE WILMSLOW 10k

The following excelled in the weekend's Festive Wilmslow 10k with fantastic lifetime best performances.

OLIVER BARTLETT (35.12). Improved from 36.59 in May's Gt. Manchester 10k

ANDREW CURVIS (35.29). Improved from 37.20 in September's Altrincham 10k

JASON BOWERS (36.11). Improved from 38.12 in May's Gt. Manchester 10k

BEN REES (36.15). Improved from 36.52 in Gt. Manchester 10k

BEA CORDINGLEY (36.57). Improved from 38.13 in July's Wilmslow 10k

MARK FOX (37.06). Improved from 37.16 in September's Stafford 10k

JON TERRY (37.20). Improved from 37.47 in July 2019 Wilmslow 10k

LAURA BARBER (37.13).Improved from 37.55 in September's Altrincham 10k

ANNE CHINOY (39.26). Improved from 39.51 in March's Trafford 10k

LAURA MARTIN (40.12). Improved from 40.46 in October's Knutsford 10k

JAMES CROSSAN (42.54). Improved from 44.26 in October's Tatton Park 10k

AMELIE LATHAM (48.04). Improved from 50.52 in March 2019 Trafford 10k

U17 FINLAY DAY (38.31) Debut 10k

DEBBIE Mc EVOY (51.19) Debut 10k

L60 JACKIE CORDINGLEY (43.58) Fastest in 5 years & 2^nd L60