All this was packed into a two kilometre loop, which the senior men had to complete five times before heading to the finish. Load More. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Posted by Tim Adams Nov 27, 0. Two years ago Judd won the senior race in Liverpool and repeated the feat on Saturday Nov 27 , clocking on the firm Sefton Park turf — much different to the boggy terrain that Judd navigated in The year-old Blackburn Harrier has had a spectacular and has already set personal bests in the m, 10,m and 10km on the road.
She also represented Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics and finished 13th in her m heat and 17th in the 10,m final. On a weekend that saw Britain battered by Storm Arwen, the strong winds died down a little during the races in Sefton Park and Judd timed her race to perfection and moved away from Jenny Nesbitt, Abbie Donnelly, Amelia Quirk, Jess Gibbon and Kate Avery with roughly a third of the race to go.
It was no surprise to see her win by 17 seconds. As it went on I was more and more confident but the last stretch was really hard. Hopefully we can bring something back! Nesbitt finished second with and Donnelly completed the podium with Quirk was the quickest of the unders with We went out quite conservative but when [Andy] Butchart came through at the end of the first lap the pace picked up.
Jamie Crowe finished third with while Tom Mortimer was the best under male athlete with Jess Bailey finished second with and ended up being the fastest under athlete in the race. Henry McLuckie secured victory in the under race, covering the 6.
The year-old will now have the opportunity to add another major medal to his roster after he won bronze in the m at the European Under Championships. His original plan was to focus on the European U18 Championships but after that was cancelled he chose to step up against older rivals. He set a Danish U20 record of Still only 16 at the time, that defeat taught him more than victory ever could. I grew a lot with that defeat, as an athlete and person. Christensen struggled with illness after an altitude camp in the autumn and had a bad reaction to the COVID vaccine.
An issue with his shoes also led to a sore heel which cost him more time, while surgery to remove his tonsils meant he had only two weeks of proper training in the legs ahead of the Nordic Cross Country Championships in Tullinge, Sweden, in early November.
Christensen proved no match for Rabi, coming home 14 seconds behind in second, but he knew with five weeks more training to come, things could be different when they met on the European stage. The lesson was learned: he packed 15mm spikes for his trip to Ireland. Jess Gibbon, winner of the Cross Challenge meeting in Milton Keynes recently, is another obvious contender.
None of his team-mates from the winning class of are in the entries for the trials. But there are still a number of top-class contenders.
Hugo Milner, for example, winner at the first two Cross Challenge meetings this winter in Milton Keynes and Cardiff, is clearly in great form going into the Liverpool event. Jack Rowe has enjoyed a fine year which began at the European Indoor Championships and saw him win British m bronze in Manchester before victory in the Great South Run last month, which means the Aldershot man should be a factor here.
Ross Millington, the Rio Olympian and winner of the Euro Cross trial in and , is also due to compete but will hope to have improved in form from his eighth place at the Leeds Abbey Dash last month.
Jonny Mellor, better known these days as a marathon man, is returning to the country this winter for the first time in a few years and certainly has the class to make an impact. As for under category contenders, Zak Mahamed is perhaps the stand-out entry but watch out for Tom Mortimer and Tom Keen too.
Contrary to rumours at the start of the winter, however, Olympic triathlon medallist and three-time Euro Cross competitor Alex Yee is not set to race in Liverpool. Short-course cross-country trials for British teams have been held in the past but for the World not European cross-county championships. Helen Clitheroe and Steve Vernon — both of whom are now leading coaches — each won the event several times at the turn of the millennium when there was the need to select a squad for the World Cross.
Even Kelly Holmes once ran the short-course trial before going on to make the Olympic podium. Now short-course trial races — which kick off the programme at
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