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Welcome to the Crawley Athletic Club web site |
This is the "on-line home" of Crawley Athletic Club's members and for anyone who trains with us, helps us or takes part in our events - "promoting athletics and social fellowship" being our aim!
Please come along and join us, you'll be very welcome!
Where? K2 Crawley. Click here for a map
When? Monday and Wednesday at 7pm
Want to join? Click here for more details
Interested in longer distance running? Find out more...
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Floodlights: When it gets dark early the club pays for the lights to be turned on between 6:45 and 8:15. After 8:15 if you have not finished training do not expect the lights to stay on until you have finished.
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Crawley Athletic Club Tom Lintern Medal Meeting 25th August 2008 |
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The Tom Lintern Medal Meeting held on Bank Holiday Monday was Crawley Athletic Club’s final Open Meeting of the season. The club would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to the smooth running of our series of open meetings this year. These events would not happen without the support of track & field officials, starters, timekeepers, track judges, announcers, recorders, entry administration, ground/equipment preparation and refreshments. In fact we are indebted to a whole army of volunteers who regularly give up their valuable time; to see so many young (& not so young!) athletes battling it out for the medals on Monday I am sure you will agree make’s it all worthwhile! We hope that all the 250 athletes who took part had an enjoyable & successful day of athletics, & look forward to seeing you all next season. Please keep checking our website for updates regarding our 2009 Open Meetings which hopefully will include the all important early season competitions in March & April.
Click here for results |
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Nick Buckfield vaults for the last time |
The Tom Lintern Open Meeting at Crawley's K2 saw Nick Buckfield make the final vault of his athletic career. Since joining the club as a 9-year-old middle distance runner, Nick first represented the club as a vaulter in senior competiton as a 16-year -old.Nick went on to become the British Record Holder at Pole Vault [5.81m indoors / 5.80m outdoors] and competed in two Olympic Games. Recently injuries have hampered Nick and prevented him from making another Olympic team. He intends staying in the sport as a coach. It has been rumoured that Buckfield might even be found taking part in a triathlon later in the year. Nick Buckfield receiving medal from Club President Jack Shelton  Nick Buckfield |
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Crawley AC U13 Team - an evening in Worthing - Wednesday 6th August |
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For the last meeting in the West Division of the Sussex U13 League, the Crawley AC team travelled down to Worthing. Being in the middle of the school holidays, and with a couple of key athletes injured, the team was a little depleted but spirits remained high. Two newcomers to the club, Victoria Snook and Sophie Stark, showed exciting potential in their events. They both cleared 1.30 in the high jump to come 2nd in the A string and 1st in the B string respectively and later, Victoria hurdled her way to the top of the club rankings with a time in the 70m of 13.1 and Sophie did the same with the javelin with a throw of 17.48m - both coming 2nd in the A string events. Another young club member competing for the first time was Stephanie Shackel, who showed huge promise with a 4th place in the A string 600m (2:14.0) and 4th in the B string 75m (11.8). Two others competed the girls team - Elora Cotte, who came 4th in the A string 75m sprint with 11.1 and 4th again in the A string 150m with 22.2 and Ella Harris who came 2nd in the B string 600m with 2:15.6 and 3rd in the B string javelin with 5.91. Highlights in the boys team came from Chris Eveleigh with two sprint pbs - an A string win in the 75m with 11.0 and a B string win in the 150m with 21.9. Newcomer Jack Gale fought valiantly in the A string 600m to win with a time of 1:55.5 and also showed promise in the 150m with a time of 23.2. Without one of the main club throwers, the boys still dominated the throws - both wins in shot with James Lasis on A string (8.45) and Michael Turner B string (8.30), discus A string win with James Lasis (25.71) and Ben Golding throwing his first discus to come 2nd in B string with 12.25 and javelin - Michael Turner 2nd in A string with 27.74 (pb) and Jason Shackel winning the B string with 22.40. Daniel White produced a pb in the long jump of 3.86 and he and Ben Golding contributed valuable team points in the 1000m with 3:35.5 and 3:35.4 respecitvely. At the end of the evening there was a quick dash to the car park before a massive thunderstorm struck the area and the team found themselves in 2nd position (out of 6) in the final league table. With everyone available for the grand Finals Day at K2 on 7th September, the club is looking forward to some great results. |
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