Birmingham, 9th March 2013
Stephen Ferroni ran superbly to bring home Sussex’s only medal at the Inter County cross-country championships last Saturday. Stephen took bronze in the U15 Boys race in a time of 13:10 just eight seconds down on the winner. This was a fantastic run following his fine fourth place in the Nationals two weeks ago.
In the U20 Women’s race Emma Dixon finished 28th, with the team coming 4th overall- the highest placing Sussex team on the day, just three points behind bronze medallists Cheshire.
The Senior Men finished 12th in the 6 aside team event and in the nine aside team competition they finished a splendid third with 1134 points. Will Gray ran well to come home in 47th place, with Kevin Rojas in 88th, and Howard Bristow 125th.
The U20 Men also finished in 12th place with Ian Crowe-Wright in 50th.
In the Under 17 men Josh Woods 43rd place helped the team to 11th place overall.
The U15 girls’ team was 19th with Nancy Jones in 123rd.
The U17 Women came 26th with Esther Lutz-Davies 103rd.
In the senior women’s race Fiona Powell and Rachel Titheradge were 171st and 237th respectively.