Athletics

Hardley Runners’ women’s team made history on Saturday with their best-ever result in the Hampshire Cross Country League (HCCL).

Thousands descended on the New Forest for this weekend’s New Forest Marathon, participating in various distance races or cheering on runners.

Hardley Runners’ father-and-son duo Mick and Brendan Anglim impressed at last weekend’s European Cross Triathlon Championships.

With a speedy time, Tom Lovegrove led the 121-strong Brockenhurst parkrun field home on the parched Brockenhurst College course in warm conditions.

New Milton resident Trevor Roberts, a member of New Forest Runners for almost 40 years, completed his 100th parkrun in Poole on Saturday.

Lymington’s Valeria Sesto stormed to her first-ever Ironman victory, leading from the start at one of the most challenging courses, Lanzarote Ironman.

Most of the local triathletes who took on the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Taupo, New Zealand, returned with smiles after strong performances.

Familiar faces led the field home at the latest Brockenhurst parkrun, with Charlotte Brown finishing second overall behind Adam Jundi.

Local athletes and running teammates Alastair Pickburn and Valeria Sesto performed excellently at the London Marathon.

Despite the cold and the recent rain, it stayed dry for the 228 people who ran and jogged Brockenhurst parkrun’s sheltered Wilverley Inclosure course.

Brockenhurst parkrun welcomed 172 people to the latest event, in which Lymington Tri Club’s W40 Gemma Russhard was the first woman across the line.

Local runners were out in force at the London Marathon, with a host of impressive times posted and money raised for charity.

Lymington Athletes and New Forest Runners members post PBs and earn London Marathon spots

Lymington Athletes founder Valeria Sesto and her Hampshire teammates romped to Inter-County National 20-mile Championships gold in Essex.

Lymington-based athlete Valeria Sesto will represent Hampshire in the Inter-Counties National 20-mile Championships with three others.

Lymington Athletes founder Valeria Sesto returned to her country of birth and won the Maratón del Desierto in Argentina despite running barefoot.

NEARLY 4,000 runners stepped forward for the New Forest Marathon yesterday – the first time the event has been held in the national park since 2019.

Local triathlete Camille King has continued her podium streak with a silver medal at the 2022 world triathlon championships in Samorin, Slovakia.

LYMINGTON’S Valeria Sesto won one of the most challenging half-marathons in the country, the Needles Half Marathon, for the second year in a row.

THE Exbury Gardens 10k returned for the first time since 2016, with more than 800 runners completing the race in sunny but windy conditions.