Thanks to all the 40 athletes who competed for Cheshire at the IC meeting at Cudworth on Sat. 21st. It was a good days competition and every one of you played your part. The results can be found on the NoEAA web site. However the raw results show that pride of place must go to the u/20s and senior men who finished in 4th position ! the u/15 boys were 5th, the u/17men- 7th.They were well supported by the ladies with the u/15s -9th., the u/17s -8th,and the u/20s and senior ladies also 8th.I have been unable to reconcile the results against the points scoring system, still never mind we acquitted ourselves well against much larger counties. If you have any points to make please feel free to contact Pauline or me at pauline_lynch@ hotmail.com.

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A good weekend for the small Cheshire team at the CAU T&F Champs at Bedford.
Pride of place goes to City of Stoke's David Brackstone who won the 400mH in
52.43 to add to his recent BUSA title and remain undefeated over the
distance so far this year.

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Darren Scott was left ruing the luck of the draw after he was drawn in the
tight inside lane for both his semi-final and final despite being amongst
the 8 fastest 200m runners in the heats. This meant he was unable to emulate
his bronze medal performance from 1999, but 7th place was still very
creditable.
On the women's side, Lucy Evans showed great promise in the 200m, finishing
4th in 24.77, just 2/10's away from a medal.
Also showing great promise was Trafford's Clare Neve, who followed up her
Championship Best Performance 2 days earlier at the NoEAA u/20's by
finishing 4th= in the pole vault with 3.50. Tying with her was training
partner, Kate Dennison, now competing for Staffordshire after finishing 2nd
for Cheshire in this event last year.

Men: 3rd Middlesex Trophy, 14 points
200m 7th Darren Scott 22.22 (22.16 heat, 22.02 semi-final)
110mH Andrew Hopkinson 7th heat 2, 15.33
400mH 1st David Brackstone 52.43 (53.46 1st heat 3)

Women: 10th= Essex Shield, 15.5 points
100m Lucy Evans 6th SF2 12.20 (12.15 3rd heat 3)
200m 4th Lucy Evans 24.77 (24.74 2nd heat 2)
PV   4th= Clare Neve 3.50

Full results: http://www.british-athletics.co.uk

The 2004 John Young award was presented to Brian Warren by George Bunner MBE at the Cheshire T&F Championships for services to Cheshire Athletics.  A Former athlete he is the current Cheshire County AA honorary secretary.

Karissa Hawitt of Warrington AC receiving award from CCAA chairman John Driscoll in recognition of winning the World Junior Women's Mountain Running Individual Gold and Team Silver at Girdwood, Alaska.

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Karissa Hawitt of Warrington AC won the World Junior Women's Mountain Running title in 17:24 over the 4km course, 24 seconds ahead of the silver medallist, on September 20th at Girdwood, Alaska. Her performance contributed significantly to the English team getting silver medals.

Full report on UK:A Website

George Bunner - OBE being presented with the 'Officials Award' for outstanding service by John Driscoll CCAA Chairman at the County Relays on Sunday 13th July 2003

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As part of the Cheshire County Athletic Associations development plan to improve communication within the county and promote county athletics Ashley Pritchard was appointed as the county web master

The 2001 John Young award was awarded to Harold Goode, who although originating from Rotherham where he started his athletics career in the 1930’s, has spent the remainder of his life in Cheshire. He was Chairman of Cheadle & Gatley AC for a number of years which became Stretford AC in 1965 (later Trafford).  Harold was their President for a number of years.  While with Cheadle & Gatley he took an interest in acting as a Starter, rising eventually to the top grade.  In addition he was Hon secretary of the Cheshire Men's AA for many years before it amalgamated with the Cheshire Women's AA in the late 1980’s.

The Cheshire Senior Men's Team won for the first time, the UK Inter-county cross country championships which were held at Woolaton Park, Nottingham in February.  The team was Rob Birchall (7th), Nick Jones (16^th), Bashir Hussain (33^rd), Mike Proudlove (63^rd), Steve Hope (66^th) and Simon Ruscoe (82^nd).  The Ladies Senior team finished 13^th (with sarah Lamb 26^th), U20 Men's team 18^th (with Tom Carter 46^th), Under 17 ladies 7^th (with Louise Whittaker 5^th), Under 17 Men 38^th, Under 15 Girls 16^th (with K Hawitt 37^th), Under 15 Boys 20^th, (with Adam Gear 55^th), Under 13 Girls 10^th (with Amy Burton 20^th) and Under 13 Boys 27^th.