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Saturday saw the final Southern Athletics League Division 1 match of the season.  It was always going to be a tough match competing against clubs fighting to save relegation.  Colchester Harriers did themselves proud and consolidated their top 6 position in the league. There were lots of personal bests (PBs) over the course of the day.  Beth Francis competing in her first scoring events for the club, achieved 3 PBs in 400m, 1500 and 2000m S/C.  Ella Neale, also ran a PB of 8min 18.44 over the 2000m S/C, won the B string discus (another PB) and 800 and clocked 63.47 in the 400m. ... read more

Congratulations to Mick Bond who has qualified to represent GB at the 2016 European "Age Group" Triathlon Championships to be held in Lisbon Portugal. Mick qualified at the Worthing standard distance race in July, in atrocious conditions, finishing 3rd at the age of 59, and will compete in the 60-64 age group in... read more

Dolggelau 5 mile, Mid Wales Double victory for the Small’s Colchester Harriers have a long tradition of success at the very hilly Dolggelau 5 in the heart of mid Wales. Yet Again Harriers did well with Alan Smalls and Fay Smalls making it a husband and wife family celebration with Fay winning the over 40 category in 50-37, and Allen  setting a new over 45 course record of 28.26 to finish 5th overall and only 45 seconds off overall victory. Ellie Mayne who was runner up to team mate Laura Shewbridge at this event last year , went one better to claim the the overall first lady prize in... read more

Rob Earle Colchester Harriers Rob Earle Competed in the British Masters Championships in Birmingham on the weekend, and what a weekend he had! In extremely testing weather conditions, Rob contested the M50 Hammer and threw a fantastic 56.08 meters to win gold. This was also a seasons best performance and puts Rob 3rd in the world rankings for this event. He also took part in the Shot 12.80 weight and threw another seasons best of 19.01 meters winning gold again and placing him 4th in the world rankings Helen Bloomfield Helen was also competing and came away with a fine silver medal... read more

Two Harriers athletes competed for the U13 Essex team in an inter counties match against high class opposition at Kingston in London. In poor weather conditions (wind and rain) both ran strongly to help the Essex team win the overall competition Graig Anya-Joseph won his B string 100m and was second in the 200m Ziggy Lambton again broke the 5minute barrier in the 1500m, coming 4th in a time of... read more

Hudson shows inner strength A quieter weekend at last for the Harriers saw individuals still competing in numerous events in the good weather. Jo Hudson has trained extremely hard for the Iron man event in Bolton, Hudson who won team county gold for Harriers at the Essex 10km at Brentwood a fortnight ago, went to the extreme distance on the famous and original  Iron Man course. Hudson had a good swim completing the 2.4 mile swim in 1-20 , then the 112 mile bike was tough but she still completed the distance in 7-19, and finally run the full 26.2 mile marathon in a great time of 3.55 for... read more

5 of Colchester Harriers athletes were selected to represent Essex in the recent U17s Inter Counties competition recently in Marlow Buckinghamshire. Tom Mitchell capped a fine season so far with a magnificent PB throw of 51.01 finally cracking the 50meter mark in really blustery conditions. To come 2nd overall. Millie Belbin made her well deserved debut in the Essex vest competing in the Long Jump and Triple Jump. She managed 4.91 in the long jump to finish a fine 3rd and 10.10 in the triple Jump coming 4th Philippa Davenall showed what good form she is in at the moment with another... read more

Harriers dominate Marathon Relay Ipswich Jaffa stage one of the most popular races in the calendar the Ekiden 6 stage Marathon relay with 200 teams on the start line running on a 2.5km circuit  around the grounds of Woodbridge School. As normal the event was full of action ups and downs and confusion and culminated in the results being unable to be given out as the chip timing completely failed. Colchester Harriers (although obviously still awaiting the official results) had a great day winning 4 of the 6 available categories. The senior ladies were far too good for the opposition... read more

Colchester Harriers Nicola Martell-Smith, Kelly Sutton and Jade Morgan all competed for Essex at the South of England Inter Counties Championships held at Crawley. Martel-Smith placed 2nd in the 400m Hurdles in 65.05secs, while Sutton had a busier time competing in the 100m in a time of 12.37sec.the 200m coming 3rd in 25.48secs and was in the winning 4 x 100m winning relay team. While Morgan competed in the triple jump. Chris Sellens came 5th in the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 10min 19secs, as did Adrian Mussett in the 5000m in 15min... read more

English Schools Gateshead What a couple of days it was for 3 young Colchester Harrier athletes at the 2015 English Schools Championships up in sunny Gateshead this weekend. Bronze for Philippa Davenhall U17 girl Philippa Davenall produced the throw of her life in the hammer competition to win an incredible bronze medal. The throw was a massive PB by 5 meters and has catapulted Philippa to 4th in the UK rankings just 4.92 meters short of the UK world U18 standard of 62 meters. A mention must go to Philippa’s coach Rob Earle who is doing a fantastic job with this up and coming training... read more