 The young Morpeth Senior Men Will de Vere Owen, Matty Walton, Joe Dixon and Oliver Tomlinson A youthful Morpeth Harriers Senior team ran in the Northern Athletics Cross Country Relays at Graves Park in Sheffield, where they placed 5th of some 60 teams from across the North of England.
Run over four stages of two miles each, the event was won by a club from just over the Pennines, Salford Harriers taking the title in a time of 39 minutes 46 seconds ahead of local outfit Hallamshire Harriers (40:41), with Gateshead Harriers, for whom Callum Johnson ran the day’s fastest leg, taking the Bronze medal (41:00). Ponteland High School teenager Oliver Tomlinson took the first leg for Morpeth, showing himself not at all daunted by the presence of older athletes, and recording 10:43. Leeds University student Joe Dixon moved the team up the standings with the club’s fastest time of 10:05, with Loughborough students Matty Walton (10:23) and Will de Vere Owen (10:19) completing the team count in a cumulative time of 41:32. Thanks to Sheffield University student Bertie Marr, who did the spade work to get the team out but was sadly unable to run himself following illness after the National Six Stage. The Women’s race was won by Derby AC with a combined time of 35:36, with Birtley AC's women 2nd in 36:24. Two teams of Morpeth teenagers also ran, with the Under 13 team of Joe Fawcett, Luke Thompson and Will Fawcett finishing 31st in their first ever race outside the region, and the U/15 team of Jack Dhawar, Jacob Thompson and Mason Gaylor making the top twenty in 18th place. Emma Tomlinson ran a solo leg in the U/17 Girls, clocking 9:35. Link to full results here: Northern Athletics Cross Country Relays Comments are closed.
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