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Just a reminder to athletes that entries for Sunday's Sussex Senior/Under 20 and Veterans 3,000 metres will be accepted on the day.
The race is timed for 3.30pm.
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This weekend’s activities start on Friday evening with the final of the “Sussex Under 15 League” at Lewes starting at 6.30 with the Hammer throw and pole vault while the track events start 15 minutes later.
A group of Sussex School’s athletes have been selected to compete for the South of England team in the U.K Schools Championships at Gateshead this weekend.
Youth Olympic Bronze medallist Charlie Grice heads up the Sussex squad and has been selected for the 1,500m while Jamie Moore will be pole vaulting, Jay Amin competing in the 200 metres, Nick Ofonagoro the 100m hurdles, Robert Duke, Hammer. Isobel Brown, high jump and Kerri-Ann Body 300m.
On Saturday both Brighton & Hove and Crawley compete in the finals of ....
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 The Brighton & Hove Under 20 team did well to finish fifth in the “Qualifying” match for a place in the Southern Premier Division of the National Junior League on Sunday and although, with 372.5 points, they were only 1 ½ points behind the fourth placed Medway team they were one hundred points away from the Saxon and Basildon teams who gained promotion.
It was a good result however as they again got the better of Southampton, their “Itchen” rivals, who scored 369 points to place sixth of the eight teams.
Conditions, at Hendon were again pretty rough, as they had been at the Inter-county match the day before, and several leading Brighton & Hove performers decided not to return to compete ....
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 It proved a tough day for the Sussex Under 20 and Under 15 teams in the Southern Inter-County match at Hendon on Saturday.
The team had already been depleted by holidays but several last minute withdrawals and an accident on the M.25 that prevented several getting to the venue meant that Sussex ended up placing seventh in the Under 20 match and 9th in the U15 group.
The Under 20 Boys did however hold up very well and actually finished an excellent fourth in their group.
Most of the sprints hurdles and horizontal jumps had the help of a stiff breeze but this was not of much assistance to the vertical jumpers.
Ironically it was in these events that Sussex chalked up their ....
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The final round of Inter-county matches for this season are being held at Copthall on Saturday when Sussex teams will be contesting the South of England Under 20 and Under 15 match.
Holidays are continuing to affect the teams and several athletes are doubling up.
English champion Naomi Lee will be going for another Sussex record in the U15 pole vault as conditions are promised to be better that last weekend at Bedford when she cleared a new Sussex record of 3.11m.
The Lasis boys, Matt (U20) and James (U15) who had finished fourth in the English championships last weekend take care of the hammer events while Savannah Echel-Thomson will double up in the U20 100 and 400 metre races.
In the U20 2km ....
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 Sussex girls picked up one gold, one silver and two bronzes at the AVIVA England Under 15/17 championships at Bedford over the weekend.
The star performer was without doubt the Lewes pole vaulter Naomi Lee who not only struck gold in the Under 15 event she also set a new Sussex record.
Romping through the early heights at her first attempts it was not until she reached the Sussex record height of 3.11m that she had a failure.
However the feisty Lewes athlete showed great determination in difficult conditions clearing at her third attempt for the gold medal and a new Sussex Under 15 record.
Having got the Sussex record under her belt she made three good attempts at 3.21m.
In the same event Brighton ....
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 Charlie Grice took a brilliant bronze medal in the final of the 1,000 metres at the Youth Olympics in Singapore.
The talented Phoenix athlete who has had a brilliant track season was in the mix right from the start and in a frenetic final 200 metres he took nearly three seconds off his personal best for the distance clocking 2:21.85s, the first European runner home.
The race was won in 2:19.54s by the Ethiopian Mohammed Geleto with Hamza Driouch from Qatar taking the silver medal in 2:21.85s.
Ireland’s Mark English, who had beaten Grice in the European Qualifying competition back in May, finished back in eighth place.
Sussex Record for Browning
Chichester’s Charlotte Browning broke Suzanne Morley’s 25-year-old Sussex 800 metre record with a sparkling ....
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 Michael Papanicola won the Under 15 pentathlon at the North West Combined events title at Sports City, Manchester, when a group of Sussex athletes made the long trip north to an event that always attracts quality fields.
The Brighton & Hove youngster who only emerged on the athletic scene a couple of months back has already qualified for the English Schools finals in September and he was a comfortable winner of the title with 2,431 points having clocked 12.66s for the 80m hurdles, leapt 5.49m in the long jump, putt the shot 9.92m, high jumped 1.63m and clocked 2:28.04s for the 800 metres.
Horsham Blue Star’s Helen Morton and Eastbourne’s Sarah Moore contested the senior women’s heptathlon but Morton failed to complete ....
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 Sussex County 800-metre and English and Sussex Schools 1,500-metre champion Charlie Grice successfully negotiated his way into the final of the 1,000 metres at the Olympic Youth championships in Singapore.
The Phoenix athlete had been drawn in the easier of the two heats and controlled the race very much as he does at home and although he was pushed down the home straight he strode across the finishing line one metre clear of his nearest rival in 2:24.74s,less than a fifth of a second slower than his personal best.
It was back in May in Moscow that Grice finished second in the European group of the Youth Olympics when he was narrowly beaten by the Irish athlete Mark English.
English was squeezed into ....
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 The Sussex senior teams turned in probably their best ever results in the South East Inter-county match when placing second in the mens match, fourth in the women’s match and third place overall.
The wind at Ashford made life pretty difficult for many of the athletes but the Sussex athletes battled well team manager Chris Minn had worked hard to produce a full team despite the absence of many of the leading Sussex athletes.
In the mens match it was Essex who came out on top with 411.5 points with Sussex scoring 356.5, and Kent third with 327 points while in the women’s match Kent won with 387.5 to 363 for Middlesex, 349 for Essex and 323.5 for Sussex in fourth ....
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