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Lucy wins triple gold

Eighteen year old, Lucy Townson, took advantage of the Blackpool sunshine to win 3 gold medals in the senior sprint events, with victory in the 100m (12.9), 200m (26.4) & 400m (60.2). Not far behind her, was Lauren Lewis 17W who also won gold in the 100m (12.6) & 200m (26.0) before taking silver in […]

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Bill Steel

Preston dominate latest Mid-Lancs fixture

Host club, Preston, dominated the latest Mid-Lancs Track & Field meeting winning both the boy’s (191) & girl’s(224) matches. There was a much improved performance from LPS girls who finished joint second (131) with Blackpool; the boys finished third behind Southport Waterloo (134.5) Remarkably, fifteen LPS girls competed at U15 level, with Imogen Ayres winning […]

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High Jumpers take the plaudits at Bebington Oval

Heavy overnight rain had left plenty of surface water at Bebington Oval, the venue for this year’s Mersesyside schools championships. Entries were disappointing, no doubt put off by the weather forecast of rain all day. From an LPS perspective it was Dave McComb’s high jump group who took the plaudits, winning all the age groups […]

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LPS young athletes at Blackpool

LPS enjoy their day at the seaside.

43 athletes made the journey to Blackpool for the first of this season’s Mid-Lancs meetings. The boys (156.6) finished 2nd behind Preston (196), while the girls (156) finished in 3rd place behind Preston (199) and Blackburn (166.5) The high jumpers are already setting high standards at this early stage of the season winning 7 of […]

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Kai Finch

Joe & Kai just miss out on medals

Three Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton athletes made the journey to Sheffield to compete at the England Athletics National Indoor Championships and were unfortunate not come away with at least one medal. Joe Milton was back to his best.His U20 400 metres event required heats and a semi-final but he was up to the challenge.Running 49.68 […]

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Imogen wins bronze at Northern Champs

A number of LPS athletes made the journey across the Pennines on sunday to compete in the U15 Northern Indoors Championships. Pride of place went to Imogen Ayres who equalled her championship best performance(1.45m) to win the bronze medal in the high jump. In addition a number of athletes from Phil Whitfield’s coaching group also […]

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Clare claims gold & silver at British Masters

Clare Constable, who has recently joined the Vet45 age category, had a successful weekend at the British Master’s Track & Field Championships held in Birmingham. Clare won the gold medal in the 800 metres with a time of 2:24.02 and picked up a silver in the 400 metres (62.45) Dave Brown (V50)competed in 5 events […]

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L-R Erin Birchall Alice Prescott Nina Smalley PHIL WHITFIELD (coach) Niamh Edmunds Scarlet Whitfield Martha Simms Abigail Bamber

Mid Cheshire 5K, England U/17 Champs, Mid–Lancs League & Trafford

Mid Cheshire 5K – 26th August Club Captain Mark Wynne continued his rise up the national O/40 vets rankings with another PB of 16 min 13 secs for his 12th place and 2nd vet overall. Club mate Kirst Longley had a rare off day and finished down the field in 17.43 and will look to […]

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Kirsty wins Birchwood 10k

The Birchwood 10k which regularly attracts a 1000 plus PB chasing starters to this fast course and so it was on Sunday 21st. LPS queen of the road Kirsty Longley (V40) cruised a to a comfortable win finishing 25th overall in 36.52. 6 seconds clear of St Helen’s Gemma Connolly 36.58 and third place Sara […]

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Northern U/15 & U/17 Track & Field Championships- Middlesboro

Lauren so close to Gold! The Girls U/15 Long Jump Final had no fewer than 3 LPS girls competing for medals. Sadie McNulty (11th-4m.64) and Erin Birchall (8th- 4m.79) competing well again . Lauren Lewis just missed out on the Gold with her PB of 5 metres 20 ,falling just 1cm short of the winner, […]

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