Challinor warms up for Italy with win.Byline: GARETH HUGHES TEENAGER Ricky Challinor, who will be representing Great Britain and Ireland Great Britain and Ireland are the two largest islands in the British Isles. A former state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was composed of the political union of the two. in the World mountain-running championships in Campodolcino, Italy, this weekend, warmed up by retaining his title in the rather less daunting Moel Fammau race from Cilcain. The former Deeside athlete was a convincing winner, finishing well over a minute clear of veteran Ian Houston. Wrexham AC has been named as the winner of this year's Welsh Athletics Inclusivity Club Award following a number of successful initiatives, not least in integrating the Special Olympics Special Olympics International sports program for people with intellectual disability. It provides year-round training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type summer and winter sports for participants. squad. The club has also established close links with local schools, holding special coaching sessions in specific events for them, reintroduced the Wrexham Games and made the new clubhouse a real base for club activities. Membership has risen to over 250. The award will be presented at the Welsh Athletics Hall of Fame dinner in Cardiff on September 26. Off-road enthusiasts are spoiled for choice this weekend with a very busy programme on offer, starting with tonight's final race in Deestriders' Grand Prix Grand Prix n. pl. Grand Prix Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course. series. Unlike the previous races, tonight's starts at 7pm. Tomorrow sees one of the toughest events in the fell-racing calendar, the Peris Horseshoe race from Llanberis. In addition to the 17-mile main race, which involves 8,500 feet of climbing there is also a Half-Horseshoe race. The five-mile Nesscliffe Nasty is the final competition in the Oswestry-based Pentarathon Series, and the third off-road event tomorrow is the annual Llyn Brenig Llyn Brenig is a reservoir located in North Wales, in the heart of the Denbigh moors, on the border between the counties of Conwy and Denbighshire. It is used to manage the flow in the River Dee, Wales as part of the River Dee regulation system which is designed to protect the race, which is a mixture of road, muddy paths and forest tracks. Also tomorrow Colwyn Bay AC host the Colwyn Bay Games at the Eirias Park arena, entries for which will not be accepted on the day. RESULTS OF MOEL FAMMAU RACE: 1 R Challinor (Liverpool) 30.43, 2 I Houston (Wrecsam Tri, M40) 32.09, 3 N White (Saffron) 32.55, 3 P Jones (Oswestry) 33.06, 5 J-P Seymour (Wirral, U18) 33.09, 6 J Kettle (West Ches) 33.17. M40: 2 G Hughes (Abergele) 34.04, 3 N Shepherd (Bowland) 34.46. M50: 1 T McGaff (Cheshire HR) 33.23, 2 B Davey (Southport and Waterloo) 37.20, 3 S Bellis (Buckley) 38.50. M60: 1 I Jones (Wrecsam Tri) 41.10, 2 M Potter (Clwydian) 44.12, 2 J Linley (Clwydian) 44.42. M70: P Norman (Wrexham) 47.06. Ladies: 1 M Gillie (Clwydian) 36.20, 2 R Jefferson (Warrington, U18) 37.38, 3 K Titlow (Warrington, U18) 39.07, 4 L Morley (Wrex) 40.07, 5 I Hughes (Burnden) 41.38, 6 J Moore (ua) 41.59. L40: C Salvage (Vagabond VAGABOND. One who wanders about idly, who has no certain dwelling. The ordinances of the French define a vagabond almost in the same terms. Dalloz, Dict. Vagabondage. See Vattel, liv. 1, Sec. 219, n. ) 46.39. L50: J Hughes (ua) 58.35. First local: A Roberts 38.46. CAPTION(S): GB ace Ricky Challinor |
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