Eastbourne Rovers Athletic Club

The British Masters Combined Events Championships were held in Liverpool this year and Eastbourne Rovers Athletic Club certainly took the South Coast up north. After recent great weather the conditions prediction were not looking great in the lead up to the major event. Brian Slaughter and Grant Stirling were certainly up for the challenge to… Read more »

Eastbourne Rovers track athletes took the opportunity to grab fast times at the Worthing Open Meeting. This where athletes give their predicted time and run against others of the same standard to try and improve still further. This proved to be a very successful evening as all athletes either equalled their best or gained personal… Read more »

Congratulations to Rovers’ Richard Davis who won the Out of the Blue 5k last night, shortly followed home by Keith Axell in second Place. Congratulations also go to Emma Burkitt who was the fastest lady to complete the 5k course by a considerable margin but missed out on the official win due to start line… Read more »

Eastbourne Rovers sent 6 athletes to the PB5K race at Ardingly on Wednesday (4th May) evening. The 5-kilometre course at the showground is designed for speed and after weeks of training, around 200 runners had gathered for the midweek race.However, it wasn’t going to be easy, a torrential downpour as runners were trying to warm up… Read more »

Rovers Cara Maker held on to her British long jump title at the Lee Valley at the weekend. Cara leapt 4m92 to take the gold medal in the M40 age group. This followed a successful performance in the 60m sprint. Cara won her heat easily with 8.56 and in the final came surging through at… Read more »

Over 80 athletes took up the challenge by Eastbourne Rovers Athletic club to come and race 1 mile. Athletes from local Sussex clubs and as far afield as Bournemouth were seeded into 6 races starting with the 9–10-minute runners building up to the fastest sub-6-minute runners The first Male on the day was Alex Riley… Read more »