Finlay Grant of Darkish Peak Fell Runners and Antonia Fan of Ambleside AC declare gold on the British Fell and Hill Championship (quick course) in Northern Eire
GRANITE PEAKS (British championships counter), Mourne Mountains, Could 24
The Northern Eire Mountain Working Affiliation (NIMRA) hosted the 2025 UK Athletics Brief
Course Hill and Fell Working Championships on the Granite Peaks Race on Saturday with 75 runners tackling the 9.6km course with 760 metres of climb.
The race begins in Glad Valley within the Mourne Mountains and follows the Ulster Approach earlier than climbing the enduring Slieve Bearnagh (739 metres). The route then descends steeply to Polluphuca (Hole of the Malevolent Fairies) then climbs the peaks of Slieve Meelmore (687m) and Meelbeg (702m) and ends with a super-fast descent again to Glad Valley.
In an in depth males’s race, Finlay Grant (Darkish Peak Fell Runners) took the win in 55:01, with Dan Dry (Shettleston Harriers) simply three seconds behind in second place (55:04). Matthew Elkington (Ambleside AC) took the bronze medal (55:09).
Antonia Fan (Ambleside) took gold within the ladies’s race (1:14:50), with Karen Wilton (Jog Lisburn Working Membership, 1:15:12) in second and Rebecca Magee (Newcastle and District AC, 1:15:52) profitable bronze.
Finlay Grant additionally took the under-23 males’s gold medal, with Rebecca Magee (Newcastle & District AC) claiming the ladies’s U23 gold.
General (9.6km/762m): 1 F Grant (Darkish Pk) 55:01; 2 D Dry (Shett) 55:04; 3 M Elkington (Amble) 55:09; 4 B Gard-Storry (Amble) 59:12; 5 J Woodley (Darkish Pk) 59:34; 6 G Baker (Amble) 60:47; 7 W Gratton (Darkish Pk) 60:50; 8 A Crutchley (Newc) 61:16; 9 A Mason (Darkish Pk) 61:50; 10 S Leckey (Amble) 62:02
M45: B Tetler (G’dale) 63:54
M50: S Godsman (Calder V) 65:22
M60: P Cornforth (Amble) 73:08
M65: C Donnelly (Cambus) 74:54
M70: B Thomson (Helm H) 94:06
MEN’S TEAM (provisional): 1 Amble 40; 2 Darkish Pk 77 ; 3 Calder V 130
Ladies: 1 A Fan (Amble) 74:50; 2 Okay Wilton (Jog Lisb, W50) 75:12; 3 R Magee (Newc) 75:52; 4 M McCauley (Portad) 77:28; 5 M Worth (Mercia, W50) 77:52; 6 L Osborn (Kesw, W50) 78:08
W55: D Wilson (Drom) 79:34
W60: Okay Monteverde (BARF) 1:45:10
W65: A Daykin (Clay) 1:48:19
TEAM: P&B 41
ISLE OF JURA, Craighouse Distillery, Could 24
General (28km/2370m): 1 F Wild (L’ber, M40) 3:07:16; 2 F Wilson (C’thy) 3:22:38; 3 T Simpson (Amble) 3:24:24; 4 L Taylor (HHR) 3:28:38; 5 H Davies (Mercia) 3:32:17; 6 A Thornton (Ochil) 3:32:41
M50: D Ward (Penn) 4:24:53
M60: J Knox (Anst) 5:16:27
TEAM: 1 C’thy 10:40:08; 2 L’ber 10:47:16; 3 HHR 11:00:09
Ladies: 1 A Whitaker (Amble) 4:10:42; 2 B Halcrow (Amble) 4:17:00; 3 E Johnstone (Penn) 4:18:26; 4 H Wingfield (Darkish Pk) 4:2:19
W40: S Richmond (Penn) 5:09:10
W50: J Caddick (Darkish Pk) 5:46:47
TEAM: 1 Amble 13:45:33; 2 W’lands CC 14:24:15; 3 Darkish Pk 14:38:19
MILLSTONE, Donard, Could 22
General (4M/1500ft): 1 T Crudgington (Newc) 35:30; 2 A Crutchley (Newc) 37:16; 3 J Mcatee (Mourne) 39:16; 4 L Vallely (Arnagh, M45) 40:55; 5 Michael Patterson 41:23; 6 Paul Rooney (M40) 41:42
M50: R Bell (Annad) 45:07
M55: N O’Gorman (Annad) 46:32
M65: D McGreevy (Newc) 49:59
M70: Peter McGuckin 59:15
U20: C Lewis (Jog Lisb) 45:51
Ladies: 1 Okay Wilton (Jog Lisb, W50) 47:21; 2 D Wilson (Drom, W55) 49:10; 3 S O’Kane (Lagan V, W55) 50:05; 4 Sonia Mcintyre (W40) 50:38
W70: M MacKin (Drom) 61:00
U20: Megan Cumming 51:52
