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The 2009 Otago Cross Country Championships
will be held on Saturday 11 July 2009 at the Waikouaiti Race
Course. The Leith Entry Steward is taking Leith
entries now. Email Entry
Steward if you wish to enter. For details of races and
entry requirements
>> 2009
Otago Cross Country Champs
National Road Relay Championships
2009, Akaroa Relay, Christchurch, Saturday 10 October 2009.
The entry steward is taking entries for this event now. Please
email entry steward
if you wish to enter this event. Check link below for the
criteria for this event before you email
>> National
Road Relay 2009
Mike Wakelin of Hill City has won
the Rosebank Lodge Half Marathon at Balclutha on Sunday 28
June 2009, winning the incorporated 2009 Otago
Half Marathon Open Men's Championships title in the process.
Ariki's Sarah Chisnall won the Otago
Open Women's Half Marathon title. For full results
>> Balclutha
Half-Marathon (full results in html)
or >> Results page for
.xls results download
Leith regained the Chingford Challenge
Shield from University of Otago Harriers after a tough tussle
on Saturday 13 June 2009 at Chingford Park. Neale
McLanachan returned to form in splendid fashion by taking
charge from the word go and led from start to finish winning
the Leith Senior Men's Cross Country title as well as spearheading
the Leith team to a fine win. Barbara
Roy, Uni's W19 star runner, and Leith's Kirsty Morris fought
out a tremendous duel with Roy winning by just one second
from Morris in the Open Women's race. Uni won the Open Women's
team's race and Morris won the Leith XC Senior Women's Cross
Country title in the process. For links to the results
and a race report + photo album
>> Chingford
Challenge/Leith XC Champs 2009
Callan Moody
of Ariki won the Edmond Cup Main Open Men's race. He
finished just 2 seconds ahead of his clubmate Nathan "Guns"
Baxter in bitingly cold hail and sleety conditions on Saturday
6 June 09 at Wingatui Race Course. Caversham's Lyndon Brown
was third. A full Leith report
will be available on the Leith site on Sunday. For full provisional
results see Athletics Otago Website.
>> Edmond
Cup 2009
>> Results via Leith site
>> Photo
Album
Leith and Civil Service Athletic
Club enjoyed combined runs and walks from Leith's Chingford
Park Clubrooms on Saturday 30 May 2009. For a full
report including Civil Service's super elite runner Peter
Frew's fast pack performance, including his groundbreaking
run down North Road.
>> >> Harrier
reports 2009
The Caversham Senior Men's No. 1
team won the 29th Leith Cross Country Relays (The Ponydales).
Ariki 1 finished second with Hill City 1 third,
Caversham 2 fourth and Leith fifth. The
Hill City Senior Women's No. 1 team won the Senior Women's
race, Otago University 1 were second and Leith
White were third. Full Results
are now available.
>> Ponydales 2009
The Three
Peaks Mountain Race took
place on
Sunday 5 April 2009. Norman Dunroy won the race with Tom Hunt
the 2008 winner finishing second. For a race report and result
information please click on the image below >>
Grant McDougall gives
an enthralling account of his run in the 2008 Sydney Marathon
which took place in September. Check the story
and photos
>> Sydney
Marathon 2008
Leith's Master Men's 40 team
ran an excellent race to win the bronze medal after a tough
battle with Lake City and Wellington Harriers in the National
Road Relay Championships held out at Mosgiel and Outram on
Saturday (4 October 08)
>> Leith
NRR Feature Page
A Leith photo album and a general (all clubs) medal winning
team photo album is now available.
>> Photo Album
Leith took part in the Otago Cross
Country Championships out at the Wakouaiti Race Course on
Saturday 12 July. Andrew
Lonie won the MM35 race, Sue Cuthbert won the MW35race, Jan
Craig won the MW50 race, Kirsty Morris was second in the SW,
Brian Pascoe finished second in the MM50 and John Winsbury
was fourth in the SM. >> Winter
Harrier Reports
>> Photo
Albums
>> Results
Bill Kenny (Leith)
finished second in the USA M70 2000m Meter Steeplechase Championships
with an excellent time of 9 mins 36.35 seconds. Great going
Bill. He has also now finished second in the M70 800m USA
Championships with a time of 2:55.50 and third in the M70
1500m Championships with a time of 6:12.82.
Bill Kenny (Leith)
was crowned the Scottish Athletics Masters M70 1,500m champion
on the weekend of the 14/15th July 2007. The 1,500m
was run on the Saturday and Bill finished in a time of 6.13.45
in managing to outlast fellow M70 competitor Thomas O'Reilly
who finished in a time of 6.19.14. Sunday saw Bill competing
in the 800m. This time around Thomas O'Reilly turned the tables
finishing in a time of 2.55.0. Bill settled for second just
3 seconds behind in 2.58.0. The championships were held in
Grangemouth Stadium in Edinburgh.
Report by Dr Kelvin Broad
Former
Leith Runner competing in Canada: Emily Solzberg has been
sighted competing in Canada. For report and photos >>
Click here
Timaru
Round the Gorge Relay: Leith No. 1 Team comes second in
A grade. Results Updated >>
Click here
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The Hughes
Memorial Handicap Races which were to take place today, have
now been postponed due to harsh
weather conditions and unavailability of officials due to
flu.
>> Hughes Memorial Races
Peninsula Relay, Saturday
18 July, 2009. Start at John Wilson Drive. If you
wish to enter this teams event, please email
entry steward
Teams selection will begin next week so please get your name
in early. Details will be posted here this weekend.
Brian Pascoe won the
Otago Master Men's 50 Half Marathon title at the Rosebank
Lodge Balclutha Half-Marathon at Balclutha on Sunday 28 June
2009. Sue Cuthbert won
the MW35 title and Geoff Williamson was 2nd in Open Men's
champs, Louisa Andrew
was 2nd and Rosie Hodson 3rd in the Open Women's Champs,
while there were more Leith podium finishes in the various
events:
For full results >> Results
page
For full Leith report >> Harrier
reports 2009
On Saturday 27 June
2009, Leith hosted the Hill City Harriers & Athletics
Club at Chingford Park for runs and walks from its clubrooms.
A full report is now out
>> Harrier reports
2009
Kirsty Morris of Leith
won the Women's Race at the Edmond Cup XC races held at Wingatui
Race Course on Saturday 6 June. She spearheaded
a fine win for the Leith team with Sue Cuthbert 2nd and Rosie
Hodson 5th. Greta Knarston of OUHC was in third place. A full
Leith report is available on the Leith site. For full results
see Athletics Otago Website.
>> Edmond
Cup 2009
or >> Results
via Leith site
>>
Photo Album and Leith
Harrier Reports
Tom
Clark of Civil Service won the The Barnes Cross Country Open
Men's race, which took place in bitterly cold wet weather
on Sunday 24 May at Kettle Park, Dunedin. Results,
photo album and report are now available.
>> Photo Album Barnes
2009 now available
>> Barnes
2009 Athletics Otago Link
>> Results
Page Leith results page
Steve Prescott won
the Joe Cowie Memorial Handicap race held on Saturday 9 May
09, Leith at Chingford Park. For a full report
and results
>> Joe Cowie
Memorial Races
Leith's Masters Men's
No; 1 team won their grade in a close tussle with Hill City
Master Men's No. 1 team on Saturday 2 May 09, at the Lovelock
Relays at the University Cricket Oval, Logan Park. For
results and report and photo album.
>> Lovelock Relays
Neale McLanachan won
the Leith Lovelock Relay Trials Open Men's race at Chingford
Park on Saturday afternoon 18 April 2009. For report
and results >> Lovelock
Relays Trials
John Winsbury of Leith
finished fourth in the grueling 60km Kepler Challenge Mountain
Run on Saturday 6 December 2008.
His time was 5 hours 13 minutes 45 seconds. For full
results and more Leith athletes results visit the official
race website
>> Kepler
Challenge
The Otago Half-Marathon Championships
took place on Sunday 12 October. Check the new and exciting
Hill Free website out for results
>> Hill
Free Website
Leith held its winter-windup
and Patrons' run on Saturday at Chingford Park.
The winter prize-giving also
took place.
For a full report on this function >> Harrier
Reports
For a small photo portfolio of this event
>> Photo Album
Leith did well in the Otago Road
Championships on Saturday 20 September. Sue Cuthbert won the
MW35 title, Glen Ferguson finished second in the MM35 race.
Jason Palmer and Kirsty Morris each finished third in the
Senior Men's and Women's 10km races respectively. A
small Photo Album of some of the races is due out soon.
A Leith report is now out
>> Harrier Reports
For full results
>> Results Page
Sue Cuthbert finished second in
the Women's 40-44 grade at the National Road Champs on Saturday
(6 Sep 08).
A report summary will be out on Monday. For full results
>> ANZ
Road Champs 2008
And for Leith athletes report
>> Winter Harrier
Reports
Grant McDougall won the Hughes Memorial
10.24km Road Race yesterday (Saturday 30 August).
For race report and full results
>> Hughes
Memorial Homepage
Photos are now available too
>> Photo Albums
Great
Naseby Water Race
2008 race was held on Saturday 23rd
August 2008. For report and results
>> Links
Sam Kidd of Otago University lived
up to his favourite status to win the Edmond Cup Steeplechase
Open Men's race, on Saturday
14 June 2008 at Wingatui Racecourse. For provisional
results
>> Edmond
Cup (Athletics Otago)
The leith report will be out soon meanwhile check The Photo
Album for this race (two albums now)
>> Photo Albums
Billy Kenny and Kelvin Broad training
in Scotland.
>> More
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