Chesh News

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  Home Countries International Mountain Race

  Joe Steward and Tom McGuinness represented England at the Home Countries International Mountain race at Sedbergh on the 18th June. This race also incorporated the trial race for the World Mountain Championships in Italy on 28th July. The 12.6km route included 866m ascent and descent. Joe Steward had a storming run to finish 3rd overall in the race and 1st ..

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  Tour of Tameside 2017

  The Tour of Tameside was back this weekend with many ECH athletes taking part. The Tour consists of 4 races in 4 days, starting with a 10k trail race finishing in Daisy Nook on the Thursday evening, a 6 mile fell race over Hobson moor and finishing next to Active Copley on the Friday evening, a half marathon Saturday morning ..

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  Tameside Sports Awards 2017 – Nominate NOW

  The Tameside Sports Awards takes place on 22nd September 2017. Nominations are now being taken with the deadline being 6th August 2017. We had a good showing from East Cheshire last year including Mike Coogan finishing 2nd in the Sports Achiever of the year award! Please see below documents. Let’s get as many nominations in as possible in the different ..

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  Medals galore at County and Northern Track & Field Championships

  It has been a busy weekend for ECH athletes with the Greater Manchester County Schools Championships taking place at Stretford and the Northern Senior, U20 & Parallel Championships taking place at Sportcity. We also had athletes taking pat in the Derbyshire Schools County Championships in Derby. Firstly at Stretford we had two ECH athletes taking home Gold medals. Keenan Owen had a ..

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  England Athletics Mountain Running Championships

  Joe Steward and Tom McGuinness took part in the England Mountain Running Championships on the 4th June in Keswick. This race was up-hill only and incorporated the trials for the European Mountain Championships to represent GB & NI, which will be held in Kamnik, Slovenia on July 8th. Both had great runs, with Joe finishing 6th and Tom 11th overall. ..

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  Quiz Night – Friday 23rd June 2017 at 7.30pm

  East Cheshire are hosting a quiz night at the clubhouse on Friday 23rd June at 7.30pm (doors open 7pm). Maximum 6 per team and the cost is £3 per person. A prize will be given to the winning team. There will be a raffle so please donate a prize if you can. This is a family friendly event, everyone is welcome!

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  Joe and Tom make England team!

  England Athletics announced their team to run at the mountain running home international at Sedbergh on the 18th June. Both Joe Steward and Tom McGuinness have both been selected to represent England in the event which also incorporates the World Mountain Championship trial, who will both be looking to make the team for the World Championships. Joe will be making ..

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  Lee wins National 100k Championships!

  Over-seas ECH athlete Lee Grantham took part in the Anglo Celtic Plate on 21st May which incorporated the National 100k championships. The race took place at Patrington Haven near Hull and Lee was representing England competing against Scotland and Wales. The course consisted of four out and back laps of 25km consisting of narrow country lanes. Lee lead from the ..