Ellis enjoys a fine run for England in quality field (From Community Newsgroup)

Ellis enjoys a fine run for England in quality field

2:18pm Thursday 28th January 2010

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WARRINGTON Athletics Club’s Harry Ellis finished seventh with the England team among a top quality field at the IAAF meeting in Elgoibar, Spain.

He was a member of the leading group for the majority of the race.

The England foursome packed well to finish as the team winners on the day, adding to the award Ellis received for his individual placing.

He will now be looking to produce a block of hard training in preparation for the World Cross Country Championships trials at Birmingham in March.

* ATHLETES stepped up to the mark for Warrington in the North of England Cross Country Championships in Blackburn at the weekend.

Warrington Athletics Club won three team medals and provided five top 10 finishes across the age groups.

The under 13s girls team added the Northern cross country title to the road relay title that they won in Leeds in September, with their four scoring athletes Lizzie Smith, 16th, Carys McAulay, 17th, Harriet Knowles-Jones, 24th, and Jessica Coulson, 36th, all packing well to run out good winners.

That performance was matched by the under 13s boys, who took their first regional title with excellent runs from Liam Burthem, sixth, Matt Wigglesworth, 12th, Dan Evans, 24th, and Kiro Smithyman-Harding, 64th.

The third team medal on the day came in the under 17s men’s race where a tight-knit team of Luke Johnston, 18th, James Ellis, 27th, Tom Jervis, 30th, and Liam Renton, 37th, took the bronze medal.

In the under 20s men’s race, the team was incomplete as a consequence of Harry Ellis' selection to compete for England in Spain but the finishing places of the remaining three athletes confirmed that a team medal would have come their way.

Dan Cliiffe came home in sixth place after he had held third spot for a great deal of the race. Indoor 1500m champion Matt Jackson had a good run as he placed 10th.

The remaining top 10 finishers were Amy Talbot in the under 20s women’s race, where she ran strongly for an excellent sixth place, and Rachel Jefferson, who was the top-placed athlete from the club as she came home in fifth place after a great run for the finish in the last mile.

* LOUISA Wood finished in 18th place while competing for the North of England representative team in the Cardiff leg of the UK Cross Country Challenge.

That was Louisa’s second representative vest of the winter.

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