Durham City Harriers

Rosie Smith led Durham City Harriers women's (Under-17) team to a well-deserved bronze medal position at the North-Eastern Counties Cross Country Championships at Hartlepool.

Despite falling towards the finish while in second place on a downhill part of the muddy course, Smith rallied to finish a very creditable third in a time of 19.17.

Joanne Ritson also ran very well to finish tenth in 29.10 and with Aida Geragusian backing up in 18th place recording 21.39, the team gained bronze medals against older girls in the combined (U-17 and 20) championships.

In the Under-15 girls 3.9k Jeni Page had another great run and just missed out on the medals finishing fourth in 16.16 with Sarah Davison (12th in 17.04).

Other Harriers: Under-13 girls: (3.4k) Kate Rose (39th 18.17), Kirsty Walker (49th 19.13).

Senior women: (7.6k) Caroline Ratcliffe (22th 34.40, veteran over-35 and Val Hancock (35th 37.43, veteran over-55).

Under-17 Men: (6.6k) Aaron Hudson (33th 45.09).

Senior men (12k): Rob Hand (23th 45.09), Steve Everett (24th 45.10), Steve Marshall (70th 50.02), Joe Harker (198th 66.49), Brian Brown (199th 66.56), Glenn Malvern (204th 70.52).

Team: 14th

At the Scarborough 10k road race, Stephen Nesbitt had a very good run, recording 36.40 while veteran Joe Harker (O-60), having his second run in two days, recorded 47.30.

Elswick Harriers

THe senior ladies took the honours at the North-Eastern cross country championships at Hartlepool last weekend.

They gained bronze in the 7.6k event over a tough course. First counter for the team was Judith Nutt, 19th in 34.05, Kim Davison, 26th in 35.45 with Yvonne Swinhoe completing the counters in 29th in 36.14. Claire Ure gained 36th in 38.15.

The Under-13 boys also finished third in the 3.4k event with Jonathon Pearson, fifth in 14.10, Lewis Dixon finished seventh in 14.15 and third counter was Andrew Hunter.

The Under-15 girls completed a trio of bronzes for the club with Sam Crowe, 16th in 17.14, Ashley Gibson, 20th in 17.56 with Kerry O'Neal, 26th in 18.14.

The Under-15 boys finished in sixth place in their 3.9k event with Ray Hawthorn 13th in 14.39; Andrew Greenwell was 25th in 15.29 with Stephen Hodgson 44th in 16.50, Jonathan Carr 49th in 17.08 and Ian Fenwell recording 19.14 for 59th.

Mandale Harriers

The Under-17 team were in excellent form at the North-East Indoor championships, making a clean sweep of all the jumping events. Michael Ball was in superb form, clearing every height up to 1.90m with first attempts to claim the title and was sixth in the triple jump which he saw as a warm-up event.

Anthony Bibby, although carrying an injury sustained when starring for the Yorkshire Rugby Union team, bounded out to 13.01 to claim the triple jump title and also get a personal best of 5.97 in his first long jump competition for sixth spot.

The long jump provided the most exciting competition with Svote Nyananyo winning gold on his final attempt to set a personal best of 6.25 but unfortunately this pushed his training partner out of the bronze medal place. Nonetheless, last year's Under-15 champion set new figures of 6.04 for fourth place.

In the girl's age group Joanne Pybus took the silver medal just ahead of her team mate Nicola McTaggart.

In the Under-20 age group more medals came to Teesside with last year's Under-17 champion Mark Bruce winning the junior title with 12.35 of his first year in their age group. Peter Vickers, last year's Under-17 bronze medallist, took bronze again with 15.68m.

Harriers' results: Under-17 Men Triple Jump: 1st A Bibby 13.02; 6th M Ball 11.20. Long Jump: 1st S Nyananyo 6.25; 4th C Driffill 6.04; 6th A Bibby 5.97; 11th S Ball 5.25. High Jump: 1st M Ball 1.85. Shot: 6th J Baines 8.86. Under-17 Women Long Jump: 2nd J Pybus 4.53; 4th N McTaggart 4.43. Under-20 Men Triple Jump: 1st M Bruce 12.36. Long Jump: 3rd P Vickers 5.68.

Under-15 Girls Long Jump: 7th S Robinson 4.01; 9th L Baines 3.92