South West Cross Country Championships 7 January 2024

Posted on 08/01/2024

Merryfield, Ilton, Somerset

Fantastic performances by all of our Wiltshire athletes in sunny conditions for once! But the going underfoot was muddy. The senior races being first made it tough for the junior races which followed.

Wiltshire won six team prizes –

U17 Women Gold –

• 1^st Eloise Foster [Swindon Harriers]
• 3^rd Tilly Nickell [Team Bath AC]
• 4^th Imogen Gray [City of Salisbury ARC]
• 5^th Ella Spencer [Swindon Harriers]

U17 Men Gold –

• 1^st Harry Maxwell [Team Bath AC]
• 5^th Joshua Maxwell [Team Bath AC]
• 11^th Henry Haslam [Andover AC]
• 12^th Thomas Dewey [Basingstoke & Mid Hants]

U15 Boys Silver –

• 4^th Tobi-Lee Loughlin [Team Bath AC]
• 10^th Archie Enstone [Team Bath AC]
• 13^th Will Smith [Team Bath AC]
• 14^th Daniel Phelps [Team Bath AC]

U13 Girls Silver –

• 8^th Elara Jacobs [City of Salisbury ARC]
• 17^th Charissa Griffiths-Clark [Swindon Harriers]
• 18^th Elsie Scrase [Swindon Harriers]
• 19^th Ellie Charlesworth [Swindon Harriers]

U15 Girls Bronze –

• 4^th Sophie Wood [City of Salisbury ARC]
• 8^th Olivia Paul [Team Bath AC]
• 10^th Sophie Maxwell [Team Bath AC]
• 12^th Francesca Cole [City of Salisbury ARC]

Senior Women Bronze –

• 2^nd Alice Murray-Gourlay [Taunton AC]
• 20^th Annabelle Wallace [Team Bath AC] [also 3^rd U20]
• 23^rd Caitlin Wosika [Team Bath AC]
• 28^th Miranda King [Bristol & West AC]

We look forward to the National CAU Inter-county Cross Country Championships on the 9 March at Walton Hall, Nottingham. WAA team managers will be in touch with selected athletes. WAA will enter and pay for the county teams.

Alex Copping, Wiltshire XC Secretary