Membership runners took to the turf at Tatton Park in Knutsford on January 25 to battle for medals on this historic championship
Angus McMillan and Lauren Heyes took the senior titles at a gloriously sunny Tatton Park the place practically 400 males and over 200 ladies completed within the parkland.
Salford and Metropolis of Leeds took senior workforce golds.
Males’s begin (David Hewitson)
Males
It was shut within the senior males’s race as Tommy Energy and Harry Wakefield added the minor podium locations nevertheless it was the in-form Angus McMillan, the triple Yorkshire champion who got here out on prime.
A overwhelmed second final 12 months, McMillan had ‘received’ the aggressive first stage of the Autumn Northern Highway Relay and posted a second-place end within the Berry Hill Park cross-country relays first stage in November.
Second positioned Tommy Energy had been headed by McMillan in that Yorkshire occasion firstly of January, a race which confirmed enchancment on the Hallamshire runner’s eighth spot within the Northern final 12 months.
Again in a detailed third, Harry Wakefield led Salford to the workforce title however has solely been energetic in operating for a bout 5 years and now races primarily on the monitor the place the England Athletics 1500-metre title got here his method final 12 months.
It was his first main cross-country championship outing so third spot and prime workforce was good reward.
Angus McMillan (David Hewitson)
Males: 1 A McMillan (York) 35:57; 2 T Energy (Hallam) 36:03; 3 H Wakefield (Salf) 36:07; 4 R Allen (Leeds) 36:16; 5 M Wharton (Sale) 36:32; 6 M Nuttall (B’burn) 36:32
TEAM: 1 Salford 106; 2 Leeds114; 3 Sale 167
Tommy Energy, Angus McMillan and Harry Wakefield (David Hewitson)
Ladies
Lauren Heyes has way more expertise of championship operating and stretched the sphere out earlier than successful comfortably from Sophie Tarver by about 150-metres.
Katy Wooden was an identical distance additional again in third spot however the workforce title went to Metropolis of Leeds, who have been led house by fourth positioned Jenny Walsh and closed their scoring 4 within the prime 9 locations.
Greater than 16 years in the past, Heyes ran on this planet and European cross-country championships with a 3rd spot within the 2008 Euro junior race standing out, earlier than a number of extra consultant honours in Euro and World occasions.
Katy Wooden, Lauren Hayes, Sophie Tarver (David Hewitson)
Since then, the Hallamshire Harrier has been a relentless presence after successful the Northern under-20 title in 2009 and was second on this race final 12 months and in 2018 and 2019.
For Tarver, who moved up from third final 12 months, this was a primary 2025 outing and replicated her second spot from 2022.
Yorkshire champion Katy Wooden produced her finest run on the nation though has been popping in a sequence of fine high quality 5000m and 5km races.
Ladies: 1 L Heyes (Hallam) 26:54; 2 S Tarver (Wirral) 27:20; 3 Okay Wooden (York) 27:42; 4 J Walsh (Leeds) 27:58; 5 C McKnespiey (Leeds) 28:08; 6 F O’Hare (Liv) 28:19
TEAM: 1 Leeds 26; 2 Sale 77; 3 Hallamshire 95
Biruk Kebede (David Hewitson)
Younger Athletes
Ethiopian asylum seeker Biruk Kebede and Abdimajiid Darood comfortably received the higher of main English born Joe Dixon within the junior males’s race, however his Morpeth membership took no prisoners within the workforce stakes.
Kebede says on his Energy of 10 web page: “I’m an asylum seeker residing within the UK, I dream of someday representing GB on the Olympics like my hero Mo Farah,” and declared that he was an athlete in coaching in his house nation.
In flip, Darood has been successful Yorkshire titles for over 5 years.
Matthew Drummond-Clark (David Hewitson)
The under-17 males’s race noticed Matthew Drummond-Clark, the English Colleges 1500m champion, win narrowly from Merseyside champion, Liam Johnson as fifth paced Pio Aaron led Trafford’s successful workforce from fifth spot.
The closest boys race of the day was within the under-15 occasion, the place Yaried Alem, the English Colleges champion, simply received the nod on Adrian White, the England Athletics 3000m champion, to maneuver up from third final 12 months.
Yaried Alem (David Hewitson)
Final November Thomas Hastings had ‘received’ leg one within the Berry Hill Park under-13 relays after which took the Yorkshire championship earlier this month and now the North of England title over Ollie Curran.
It was even nearer within the junior ladies’s race the place winner Amelie Lane who retained her title and runner up Elena Inch couldn’t be separated on rounded up occasions. Many of the winner’s outings are over the nation with no monitor racing, in contrast to Inch who races over 800m quite a bit.
Ellarose Whitworth (David Hewitson)
Firstly of the month, Ellarose Whitworth had braved the icy climate and bitterly chilly climate within the Wolds to take the Lincolnshire title so right here, discovered the winter solar a blessed reduction when successful by round 80-metres from Maisie Bellwood, who was solely fourth within the Yorkshire Championship earlier within the month.
North East Counties champion Gabrielle Pinder, who was solely fourth final 12 months, had an identical margin within the under-15 women’ race when successful from Olivia Lee, who was third within the delayed English Nationwide under-13 race in September.
Right here within the Northern under-13 outing, Sienna Lavine added to her Yorkshire title from earlier within the month by once more heading Jessica Thake, seventh final 12 months.
U20 Males: 1 B Kebede (CleM) 24:30; 2 A Darood (Skyrac) 24:53; 3 J Dixon (Morp) 24:55
TEAM: 1 Morpeth 26; 2 Wirral 55; 3 Vale Royal 62
U17: 1 M Drummond-Clark (Prest) 17:46; 2 L Johnson (St Hel S) 17:49; 3 D Watson (NSP) 17:59
TEAM: 1 Trafford 58; 2 Preston 93; 3 Keighley & Craven 127
U15: 1 Y Alem (Leeds) 12:47; 2 A White (Traff) 12:48; 3 J Eire (Macc) 12;49
TEAM: 1 Hallamshire 66; 2 Southport W 998; 3 Trafford 101
Thomas Hastings (David Hewitson)
U13: 1 T Hastings (Wake) 9:49; 2 O Curran (Darl) 9:54; 3 N Penfold (NSP) 9:57
TEAM: 1 Preston 31; 2 Liverpool 105; 3 Darlington 112
Amelie Lane pips Elena Inch (David Hewitson)
U20 ladies: 1 A Lane (Wharf) 20:20; 2 E E Inch (Sheff & D) 20:20; 3 G Bell (Leven V) 20:29
TEAM: 1 Salford 46; 2 Vale R 63; 3 Warriors Pentathlon 93
U17: 1 E Whitworth (Linc W) 1755; 2 M Bellward (Okay&C) 18:15; 3 J Wright (Salf) 18:25
TEAM: 1 Rotherham 77; 2 Salford 87; 3 Liverpool 137
Sienna Lavine (David Hewitson)
U15: 1 G Pinder (N Marske) 13:50; 2 O Lee (Der) 14:14; 3 I Yorke (Warriors) 14:21
TEAM: 1 Sale 63; 2 Rotherham 81; 3 Leeds 108
U13: 1 S Lavine (P’fract) 10:22; 2 J Thake (Hallam) 10:33; 3 M McGoldrick (Settle) 10:45
TEAM: 1 Liverpool 53; 2 Warriors 57; 3 Lincoln Wellington 99
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