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At the South of England Athletic Under 20 and Senior Championships, Colchester Harriers had some great performances, particularly in the Under 20 men’s Hammer competition, where James Hamblin produced a new personal best and club record, with a throw of 66.35m, which earned him a Silver medal and was only beaten by a new national record. Kelly Sutton came back from a short lay off to come 5th in her heat of the Senior Women’s 100m with a 12.75secs and made it through to the final of the 200m recording 25.55secs in the process. Connor Oliver was also in action in the Under 20 men’s... read more

Colchester Harriers had 2 of their most successful days ever in the 2015 Essex championships at Chelmsford collecting a fantastic 18 medals including 8 golds, 8 silvers a 2 bronze. Rebecca Jeggo won gold in a tremendously hard fought 200m. 20m down off the bend she forced her way back into the race down the home straight to win gold on the dip by 200ths of a second against a quality field. Connor Oliver won gold in the u20s mens 400m leading from the start and clocking 50.18 a new PB Tom Mitchel won gold in the mens u17 Javelin with a throw of 47.88 m Callum Mckay blasted off in... read more

At the Suffolk Border run held at Wiston , the 9 mile trail course saw Allen Smalls and Richard heath share the 1st spot in 1-06. Jo Hudson and David Wright finished in 1-15, Hudson was first lady, while Lyn Higgs, Gary Abbott, and John Carter all finished... read more

The last two Castle 5kms have seen tremendous running from the Colchester Harriers . In the first it was a double victory for mark Harrod 17-39, and Laura Shewbridge 19-32, with Jon Nears runner up in 18-05, and Ged mcmillan 3rd in 18-23. Also in the top20 finishers of the 330 starters were 6 Ethan Thrower 18-41, 8 Harry Verala 18-47 (Pb), 9 Andy Raynor 18-50, 10 lee Hykel 18-51, 11 David Wright 18-54, 12 Danny Millward 19-19, and 18 Max Caulfield 19-48. Kelly Haniver was 2nd lady in 20-04, while Rob Lane ran a Personal best 23-22. The latest Castle race saw another big battle between the... read more

Gold medal for Dowell Colchester Harriers Mellissa Dowell strode to victory in Rimini, Italy, in the European Triathlon Championships winning her age group in all three disciplines to take the European gold... read more

Fastest six men from Harriers as Sellens and Stradling set records The first race of the summer Promenade Handicap 5km series held at Maldon Park saw Colchester Harriers monopolise the race with the six fastest men and course records for Chris Sellens and Sarah Stradling. Sellens only a couple of weeks after becoming Essex Marathon Champion tore around the course in 16-18 to beat his own and the races old record set last year. Sellens victory was mirrored by Sarah Stradling who while using the race for a warm up for the London 10km was first lady in 18-01 and 8th fastest overall on the... read more

Ridley third in age group The Bupa London National 10km Championships is a huge race, and this year the overall winners were Andy Vernon 28-38 and Jo Pavey 32-56. Best individual performance on the day from Colchester Harriers was from super veteran over 50 Colin Ridley who clocked 34-51 and 3rd in his age group to take the bronze medal. Sarah Stradling ran her normal excellent race to come home 33rd lady in 36-27. The Harriers ladies team was completed by Sarah Ivory 88th 39-28, and Laura Shewbridge 107th 40-32, also running well were Sara Wallace 44-26, and Hazel Harvey... read more

Another victory for Smalls Colchester Harriers ultra expert Allen Smalls stormed to victory at the first running of the Bury to Clare Challenge an 18 mile mixture of road and trail finishing at the old Clare Railway station. Smalls ran 2-04 and was over 20 minutes clear of the runner up. Team Mate Simon Smith was 14th in... read more

Mussett and Stradling dominate again It was total domination by Colchester Harriers Adrian Mussett and Sarah Stradling yet again at the Colchester 10km where 470 runners completed the course. Mussett ran 32-11 to finsh over 3 minutes clear of Haverings Richard Heath who still clocked a fine 35-28 although going well off course and having to come back from 25th place at 4km ,Heath is moving to Colchester and joining Harriers shortly. It was 3rd place overall for the amazing over 50 Colin Ridley 35-29 with team mate Mark Harrod just behind in 4th spot just missing a personal best by aa... read more

Harriers men dominate Colchester Harriers men dominated the Halstead Marathon over the new course which if anything had an extra hill to add to the already tough 26.2 miles of Essex Countryside, the weather got hotter as the morning went on, but it could not stop Colchester Harriers Chris Sellens becoming Essex Champion clocking an amazing 2-37-56 and outpacing a Spanish runner in the last couple of miles to finish strongly, with the Spaniard not counting in the Essex Championship 2nd place went to the talented Carwyn Jones 2-43-46 who knocked a huge 16 minutes off his personal best, 3rd... read more