Hercules Wimbledon teenagers Liam White and Alex Robinson produced gold medal-winning performances when they raced away men's U17 and U20 titles, respectively, at the Surrey cross country championships at Croydon's Lloyd Park on Saturday.
With the two championships being decided in the same race, the team mates ran together to finish in 26 minutes, 15 seconds.
White, whose nearest rival was more than half-a-minute adrift becomes the first Hercules runner to win the U17 title, while Robinson became the club’s first winner of the junior title since Dave Clarke in 1978.
Both are in action again at this weekend’s English National Championships in Roundhay Park, Leeds, on Saturday.
Also in the U17 race, Geordie Logan was ninth (28:40), with Ed Saywell 16th (29:39).
Hercules Wimbledon took bronze team medals in the senior men’s race, with Kieran White seventh (42:18) and Adam Przedrzymirski ninth (42:34).
Other Hercules finishers: 26 Ian Horrocks 45.02, 31 Gervase King 45.47, 32 Richard Xerri 45.52, 41 Peter Lee 46.47, 44 Maurice Sharp 47.19, 45 Alex Urban 47.20, 57 Hugh Saxby (over-50 veteran) 49.07, 78 Stewart Bond 52.39, 86 Frank Wood 54.30.
Hercules Wimbledon's youngest runner at Croydon, Cassian Hyde, just missed out on an individual medal in the boys U13 championship where he was fourth (14:13), having held the bronze medal position for much of the race.
In the senior women’s race, Zoe Pike was 29th (37:42), Marilena De Luca 48th (40:35) and Rowena Hornshaw 57th (43:15).
Hercules Wimbledon's sole runner in the U15 championship, Ben Palmer, finished 17th in 15:57.
With Saturday's races being used as selection events for the UK Inter-Counties championships in Birmingham's Cofton Park on March 13, Hercules Wimbledon will have up to five runners representing Surrey there.
Liam White, Alex Robinson and Cassian Hyde are certain to make the teams while Kieran White and Adam Przedrzmirski have a good chance of making the senior men's squad.
Two Hercules Wimbledon runners were in winning form at the UWIC Indoor Open meeting at Cardiff. James Garnier clocked a lifetime best of 51.33 in winning the 400m race while Olly Stogdale won another 400m race in a slower 52.84.
Hercules Wimbledon's Stuart Fraser was first veteran in the Sussex Beacon half-marathon at Brighton on Sunday finishing 17th out of almost 6,000 runners in 1:15:58.
Annemarie Seymour clocked a personal best of 1:52:17 in the women's race.
Hercules Wimbledon's Michaela Knespl was the first woman in the Wimbledon Common parkrun on Saturday in 21:10. Adam Vandenberg was fifth in the men's race in 17:13 with Andrew Davies 13th in 18:56.
Elliott Laville, 14, was 60th out of more than 150 finishers in 22:40 with another 14-year-old, Josie Clough, 14th in the women's race in 27:14.
Louis Laville, who is just 11, finished 138th on his debut in the event in 30:23.
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