Cross Country County Champs success for Derby AC athletes
Derby Athletic Club’s junior and senior runners once again triumphed in the Derbyshire county cross country champs with a series of team and individual wins and top placings.
Team success in the January 2026 event included first and second-placed team in the U15 girls’ and U15 boys’ races, first team in U17 and U20 women’s races, and first team in the U11 and U13 boys’ races.
Individual race victories came for strong-performing juniors Joyce Lenton (U13 girls), Olivia Lee (U15 girls), Harry Lees (U11 boys) and William Saunders (U13 boys) as well as Iris Clarke for the U20 women, Evelyn Jones for the senior women and Clive Toplass for the M65.
The DAC squad also showed strength in depth, with club athletes taking the top three places in the U13 boys’ race, the top four places in the U15 girls’ race, first, third and fourth in the U20 women’s race and second, third and fifth in the U15 boys’ race.
The Derbyshire championships, held alongside the Nottinghamshire event, were staged at Bulwell Park on a very frosty, cold course which really challenged the runners.
A massive well done and congratulations to all the DAC runners who took part in the event, and many thanks also to race officials, parents and supporters who made the champs happen.
Full results:
U13 girls: 1 Joyce Lenton, 4 Ellie Pepper, 12 Faith Harries. Second team overall.
U15 girls: 1 Olivia Lee, 2 Imogen Satherley, 3 Jessica Whitehead, 4 Alice Lincoln, 8 Amelie Wheeler, 10 Dayne Kayes, 15 Rosaria Boyer. First and second team overall.
U17 women: 3 Sophia Wheeler, 5 Poppy Radbourne, 6 Isla Powell, 9 Emily Whitehead. First team overall.
U20 women: 1 Iris Clarke, 3 Isla Love, 4 Isobel Shipley. First team overall.
Senior women: 1 Evelyn Jones, 3 Hannah Coleman, 4 Rachel Duckworth.
U11 boys: 1 Harry Lees, 4 William Hodgson, 6 Henry Colebourne, 9 Arthur Toogood. First team overall.
U13 boys: 1 William Saunders, 2 Finley Kowalski, 3 Felix Cheesman, 12 Jenson Woolley. First team overall.
U15 boys: 2 Osniel Segal, 3 Frederick Harrison, 5 Toby Newboult, 6 Isaac Jones, 7 Seth Burton, 10 Tom Pope, 11 Benjamin Lynch. First and second team overall.
U17 men: 2 Samuel Watson, 4 Harry Tatham.
U20 men: 2 William Wright, 3 Joseph Young.
Senior men: 6 David Bishop, 7 Daniel Haymes, 12 Jack Broughton, 13 Patrick Welsh.
M65: 1 Clive Toplass.
