HARRIERS ACES BAG SUCCESS
EIGHT Carmarthen Harriers athletes made the journey to Liverpool to represent club and country.
The third fixture of the 2021-22 British Athletics Cross Challenge Series was held at Sefton Park and it hosted the European Cross Country Championship trials for the event in Dublin later this month.
The day began with the European Men’s Short Course Relay Trial over a fast 1.5km. Iestyn Williams finished 14th (4:43).
William Coles (under-13) and Iwan Thomas (under-15) followed up their third-place finishes in Milton Keynes a fortnight ago with more success in Liverpool.
In their respective races, Coles finished fourth (10:40) and Thomas was fifth overall (9:46).
Thomas’s team-mate Jake Lynock also ran in the under-15 boys’ category, crossing the line in 30th position (10:33).
The distance for the under-17 men’s race was 5.5km and Steffan Davies completed the course in 72nd (19:42).
Sixteen athletes in the under-17 women, under-17 men, junior women and junior men’s categories were selected to represent the Welsh team, which included Eva Edwards and Dafydd Jones.
Edwards was 31st overall (16:17), while Jones came in 42nd (21:35). Both were the third Welsh athlete home in their events.
The final event of the day saw the Senior Men complete three large laps, with Huw Davies finishing 357th (41:14).
Next up in the new year is a trip to Belfast on Saturday, January 22, followed by the fifth and final race of the series at Loughborough’s Prestwold Hall in March.
Elsewhere, the West Glamorgan Cross Country League returned, with the first fixture taking place at Singleton Park in Swansea.
A total of 34 runners from Llanelli Athletics Club participated at the first of five races this season.
Athletes: Helen Beynon, Jenny Phillips, Claire Protheroe, Katherine Morgan, Lisa-marie Penn, Vanessa
Buckler, Christina Deakin, Gloria Edwards, Jody Williams, Lorna Powell, Emily Powell, Debbie John, Rachel Evans, Jacky Lewis, Mark Harrison, David Keenan, Alan Davies, Ian Webb, Rob Davies, Dan Totterdale, Nick Fox, Peter Osborne, Craig Hopkins, Mathew Jones, Jason Dickinson, David Rees, Anthony Heald, Phillip Powell, Colin Edwards, Mike Halsall, Andrew Morris, Geraint Davies, Eric Davey and Bruce Morgan.