Thanet Athletics Club

Primary schools cross country – final league tables

The final league tables for each of the age group categories in this year’s Thanet Primary Schools Cross-Country League can be downloaded below.  Please note that the file is 33 pages before you decide to print it.
Participation figures were greater this year than ever before with a total of 1138 children – 513 girls…

Alasdair competes at English Schools Cross-Country

Alasdair Kinloch travelled to Ilton in Somerset last Saturday 17th March to represent Kent at the 52nd English Schools Cross-Country Championships.
Alasdair made the trip despite carrying a slight knee injury and completed the tough 3750m course in 14:37 to finish 124th in a field of 329 junior boys from 43 counties.  Alasdair was fourth…

Club supports secondary schools cross-country

Just days after organising the third and final Thanet Primary Schools Cross Country League meeting of the year (click here …to read the report), Thanet Athletics Club supported the annual Thanet Secondary Schools Cross-Country Championships at Hartsdown Technology College yesterday (Wednesday).  Club coaches helped with organising and running the event, the club supplied the race

Upton and St Lawrence College are champions again

Upton and St Lawrence College are confirmed as the team and small schools champions in the Thanet Primary Schools Cross-Country League, retaining the titles that they won last year (and in the case of Upton, every year!).
The top three in each competition were:
Teams (large schools) – 1st Upton 6394 points, 2nd St Nicholas-at-Wade…

Primary schools cross-country – report and results

788 children – 356 girls and 432 boys – representing 29 schools competed at the third and final Thanet Primary Schools Cross-Country League meeting of this school year at Palm Bay Primary School on Saturday morning.  The rain that had been forecast held off until after the event and the cool, cloudy conditions were perfect…

Cameron is county cross-country champion

This report is taken from a report that was written on behalf of the ten schools listed below.  The Thanet AC members who represented their schools are shown in bold.
Thanet schools saw some excellent performances at the Kent Junior Schools Cross-Country Championships at the University of Kent at Canterbury on Saturday.  10 Thanet schools…

Kent School Games Sportshall Athletics Finals

This report is taken from a report that was written on behalf of the three schools listed below.  The Thanet AC members representing their schools were Jon Hart, Katie Burton, Mia Harrison, Ria Downes (all Upton); Ailsa MacRae, Alice Fox, Georgia Debling, Hannah Denny, Kelsey Fuss, Maddy Johnson (all Dane Court) and Alasdair Kinloch (Chatham…

Omega breaks Kent standing triple jump record

Thanet Athletics Club sent a strong team to the final Kent Sportshall Athletics meeting of the winter series at Ashford on Sunday 4March, and was rewarded with a string of individual and team medals and a new Kent record.
Omega Skeen led the U11s to second place behind fierce rivals Folkestone & Shepway.  She broke…

Primary schools cross-country – race lists and information

The third and final Thanet Primary Schools Cross-Country League meeting of the 2011/12 school year will take place at Palm Bay Primary School on the morning of Saturday 28 January.
1043  children from 29 schools have entered the eight races, as shown below. Entry is now closed and further entries cannot be accepted.  Race numbers…

Early start rewarded with five medals at Kent Indoor Championships

Thanet Athletics Club was well-represented at the Kent Indoor Athletics Championships at the magnificent Lee Valley Athletics Centre in North London on Sunday, and the long trip was rewarded with five medals.

The U15 Girls long jump was the first field event of the day and, with Diana Adegoke in action, it meant a dawn…