Here’s the fifth success of the summer (or spring, in this case) this week to wet your Friday appetite! This time it is the turn of the Inter-counties Cross-Country Championships. After seven consecutive years at Prestwold Hall, Loughborough, the 2024 event on Saturday 9th March was moved to another – Wollaton Hall, Nottingham.
The senior women’s race saw Abbie Donnelly in dominant form over 8K to win by 18 seconds – adding the 2024 Cross Challenge individual title and a ticket on the plane for the World Champs. It was also a fine performance in the U20 category by India Barwell, placing 7th in her race.
There was added spice as the event also held the British Athletics Cross Challenge Final and there was selection for the World Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia on 30 March 2024 at stake.
LWAC were well represented amongst the Lincolnshire contingent throughout, from U13 to Senior level.
Fun fact: The UK Counties Athletics Union (CAU) was formed in 1926 after a meeting in the offices of the AAA in 1925 had been attended by 10 representatives of the home counties, plus Norfolk and Suffolk. The first Inter-Counties Championship was a cross country race at Beaconsfield on 3 April 1926, and the event quickly became a major winter test for athletes who represent their counties with enormous pride.
