Durham Schools Cross-Country Champs

30th January

Many C-le-S athletes raced through the snow for their school region rather than the club. With results hard to obtain, only those listed in the Chronicle’s results section (i.e. top 8) are mentioned – sorry to those missed off.

Our top performer was Daniel Pickering who led the field home in 8:26, 14 seconds clear of the next Minor Boy. He also helped his Durham Central team to claim 2nd in the team competition. Another individual medal was won in the Junior Boys by Chris Peverley representing West Wear, who finished in 2nd place with a time of 16:24 for the 4.3km course. He was 6 seconds behind the winner. Following closely, Tom Goulding finished outside of the individual medals in 4th with 16:56 but led his team (Durham Central Schools) to gold.

It was excellent to see Dyllan Pickavance-Clarke back in action after a troublesome knee injury. Dyllan finished 5th in the Senior girls representing Derwentside. Finally, Anna Fawcett running for West Wear, finished in 4th place in the junior girls, just missing out on an individual medal but collecting a bronze in the team event.

Hopefully all these athletes will now gain selection to represent Durham in the English Schools Championships.