Halesowen Athletics Club came back from the Worcestershire Cross Country Championships with a sizeable haul of medals!
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The event, held at Warley Woods, was jointly staged with Warwickshire County Athletics Association which led to some competitive races across the age groups.
Position listed are the overall race positions which include the athletes from Warwickshire.
Here’s all the results plus athlete photos:
UNDER 11 BOYS (1500m)
18 Ethan Parkes (7th WORCS) 5:35
45 Harry Wilkinson (13th WORCS) 7:33
46 athletes finished, 13 from Worcestershire.
UNDER 13 GIRLS (3000m)
19 Grace Follows (8th WORCS) 11:57
44 athletes finished, 8 from Worcestershire.
UNDER 15 BOYS (4000m)
22 Sam Vince (3rd WORCS 🥉) 16:15
29 athletes finished, 5 from Worcestershire.
UNDER 15 GIRLS (4000m)
14 Izabella Fereday (4th WORCS) 16:53
16 Isabelle Wilkinson (5th WORCS) 17:20
32 athletes finished, 8 from Worcestershire.
UNDER 17 WOMEN (5000m)
3 Ffion Collins (1st WORCS) 18:28 🥇
4 Poppy Dunlop (2nd WORCS) 18:49 🥈
6 Kara-Rose Welborn (3rd WORCS) 19:05 🥉
7 Lucy Hellingsworth (4th WORCS) 19:07
17 Bronte Appleyard (8th WORCS) 21:26
Ffion, Poppy and Kara won TEAM GOLD! 🥇
26 runners finished, 9 from Worcestershire.
UNDER 17 MEN (6000m)
27 Ed Bates 22:07 (5th WORCS)
30 Kian Hazelwood 22:32 (8th WORCS)
35 Theo Lee-Carpenter 23:11 (10th WORCS)
42 Malachi Loughead 27:45 (13th WORCS)
Ed, Kian and Theo won TEAM BRONZE! 🥉
42 runners finished, 13 from Worcestershire.
UNDER 20, SENIOR & MASTERS WOMEN (7000m)
23 Jessica Dale 29:27 (3rd U20 WORCS, 8th WORCS) 🥉
127 runners finished, 38 from Worcestershire.
UNDER 20, SENIOR & MASTERS MEN: (10000m)
45 Daniel Morgan-Salcombe 34:47 (2nd U20 WORCS, 13th WORCS) 🥈
63 Ben Russell 36:01 (23rd WORCS, 11th WORCS SENIOR)
76 Adam Cross 36:52 (28th WORCS, 11th M40 WORCS)
99 Peter Dear 38:15 (35th WORCS, 17th WORCS SENIOR)
103 Alex Taylor 38:47 (36th WORCS, 4th U20 WORCS)
117 David Lewis 39:33 (42nd WORCS, 5th M50 WORCS)
119 Mark Hadley 39:46 (43rd WORCS, 6th M50 WORCS)
134 Carl Follows 41:33 (48th WORCS, 19th M40 WORCS)
140 Bill Nock 41:57 (1st WORCS M60, 51st WORCS) 🥇
145 James Ludlow 42:53 (54th WORCS, 11th M50 WORCS)
150 Alex Morgan 43:18 (2nd WORCS M60, 56th WORCS) 🥈
159 Andy Carruthers 44:32 (3rd WORCS M60, 57th WORCS) 🥉
172 Andy Nock 46:15 (59th WORCS, 4th WORCS M60)
200 runners finished, 65 from Worcestershire.
Halesowen finished fifth in the Senior Men’s team race and were first M60 team too!
Congratulations to everyone who took part, all the medallists and to those who earned selection for the Worcestershire team at the Inter Counties Cross Country Championship in Nottingham on Saturday 7th March 2026.
Due to what is now becoming an unfortunate regular occurence, there were delays and various issues with the Worcestershire results.
Here is a link to what we hope are the final confirmed Worcestershire County results:
A number of medals are yet to be presented but these are due to be awarded at the Birmingham League, Midland League and WMYACCL races in January.
If there are any further queries with the results, then please contact Ian Clarke from the Worcestershire County Athletics Association at ian.joan.clarke@blueyonder.co.uk
Finally, here’s Mark Hadley carrying out a spot of squad recruitment to strengthen our Vets team ahead of the next Birmingham League race.
“David Moorcroft, former world 5000m world record holder, would you like to line up for Halesowen at Top Barn Farm in January??” 🙂
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