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English Schools' Championships

Jess Coulson in the Intercountys

Jess Coulson (centre) brought the Inter Girls' team home in first with a frantic last 200 metres to finish 3rd

Stockport Harriers had 11 athletes putting in good performances representing Greater Manchester Schools at the English Schools' Championships held in Mansfield last Saturday.

Greater Manchester won the Junior Girls with Michelle Wiblin putting in another consistent effort finishing 26th.

Jess Coulson brought the Inter Girls' team home in first place with a frantic last 200 metres to finish 3rd.

Lucy McLoughlin battled around the tight course for 49th.

In the Junior Boys' race Michael Logue and Harry Long ran well in their first English Schools' Championships in 119th and 141st.

Ross Milington and Steve Pearson were 125th and 154th in the Inter Boys.

The Senior Boys' race had Andy Nixon finishing 37th and Jon Walch 194th and in the Senior Girls Carla Stansfield 145th and Rhea Fallows 205th.

Northern Road Relay Championships

Emma Hampson

Emma Hampson

Despite missing some of our top runners the women's A and B-teams in the Northern Road Rely Championships at Heaton Park produced an excellent performance, maintaining the progress made in recent years.

The teams finished 15th and 31st out of a field of 46 teams, beating many of our rivals.

The next event for the ladies will be the National 6-stage held at Birmingham's Sutton Park on April 8th and we will see what we can improve on there.

The men's team performed better than expected, finishing 29th from 63 teams but just less than a minute short of qualifying for the National 12-stage.

Women's A-team 15th Women's B-team 31st
1. J Knass  19:59 (19th) 1. J Lawton  24:29 (42nd)
2. E Hampson 21:39 (22nd) 2. R Lee  25:10 (39th)
3. K McCrackle 22:26 (24th) 3. D McCann 24:44 (37)th
4. K Wood 21:06 (18th) 4. J Hopes 24:37 (32nd)
5. S Thomas 22:37 (15th) 5. H Beard 24:44 (30th)
6. E McGuire 20:33 (15th) 6. J Cocks 27:48 (31st)
Men's 12-stage Team 29th
1. K Beattie 33:07 (42nd) 7. J Dabbs 33:24 (38th)
2. A Whittingham 18:32 (40th) 8. A Oldham 19:16 (35th)
3. B Shone 19:01 (39th) 9. P Pearson 19:47 (35th)
4. M Shaw 33:25 (35th) 10. B Hussain 30:43 (29th)
5. H Yousefian 20:28 (38th) 11. F Reilly 18:45 (30th)
6. P Rogers 19:45 (37th) 12. L Best 18:07 (29th)

Glory for the 'Trimpell Trio'

Report courtesy of 'The Gingerbreadman'

Last Sunday a trio of Stockport Harriers made the long arduous journey to Morecambe to take on a 'strong international' field at the Trimpell 20.

All three Harriers ran brilliantly, each recording personal bests for the distance.

Race sponsor Pete Bland was allegedly overheard saying "I'm amazed at the performance of the Stockport team considering that they all did PB's at Wilmslow only 7 days ago".

First home was Stephen Jones, second Lee Barratt and in third place Sean Whewell.

A source close to the race organiser said "We are delighted that these three fine athletes had taken time out from their London Marathon training to compete in our race, especially Steve Jones who ran despite his wife having a big sulk because it was Mothers Day."

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