Archive | 2001

News December 2001

Blackpool wins for both Stewarts LPS had athletes turnout in  numbers at the Mid Lancs cross country at Blackpool. Alan Stewart won the under 17s  event and lead the team to victory with Chris Watson 4th and Michael Rimmer 5. Not to be outdone the under 15s also won with a score of 33 beating […]

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News November 2001

3 Team wins at Hyndburn LPS athletes continued their domination of the younger age groups in the boys section of the Mid Lancs league on Saturday. A win for Alan Stewart in the under 17s was the highlight as Chris Watson came home 2nd then came Andrew Dondaldson 8 and Robert Warmsley 10th was enough […]

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News October 2001

LPS 14th at Northern 6 stage Road Relay This years northern 6 stage was held in Sunderland and just 6 runners made the long trip north along the A1 to represent the club. Once again illness, injury and apathy ruled the day with many preferring to stay at home to watch the England match. The […]

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News September 2001

I am very sorry about this but I can’t locate the news file for September 2001. It may have been mislaid within the thousands of files and folders from that time or deleted. Lets hope it the former and I find it.   Robbie Wood 12th January 2015

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News August 2001

Two Victories for Merrik at World Vets Merrik Bousfield  a young 52 returned from the world vets throwing cup in Hungary held on 4 & 5th August with two victories. Over the course of the weekend ten separate throwing events were contested, Merrik contested nine of the events winning two, was runner up in six, […]

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Ritchie Webster

News July 2001

Brian Currie 2nd in Penny Lane 10k Continuing his recent spell of good form Brian Currie chased home ex LPS member Lee Caddwallader in the popular Penny Lane 10k. Brian ran 32.36 to Lee’s 32.21 in very warm conditions over what is a fast course. Jill Darby ran 42.05  to finish 12 in the ladies […]

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News June 2001

Gallaghers double at Pendal Father and son double at Pendal as dad Jim won the discus ‘b’ with 27.61 only to be matched by young Anthony who won the ‘b’ 100 in 12.1. In a busy day Anthony was also second in the 200’b’ event and second in the shot ‘a’ event with a throw […]

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Tony Gallagher

News May 2001

B Team suffer at Stockport Proving how difficult it can be for the captain of the B team Paul Rudkin lost a number of his first choice athletes at the last minute to the A Team and this effected the overall performance on the day. No b string in 100, 200, 400, H/J & T/J […]

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News April 2001

20 team in Northern 12 Stage Relay In bitterly cold conditions LPS came home 20th in the Northern 12 stage relay at Leeds. This ensured  qualification for the National 12 stage later this month. Getting away to a good start Nathan Vengdaslerm brought home in 6th place, solid packing saw us ahead of Liverpool Harriers […]

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News March 2001

There was a national outbreak of Foot & Mouth disease during this period and almost all athletics events were cancelled so we have no news from this month.

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