County Cross Country Championships 2019: ‘Triathletes’

The first weekend of January is the traditional time for the Country Cross Country Championships to be held all over the country.

As regular readers of TRI247 will know, we do endeavour to keep an interested eye on ‘triathletes’ racing in and doing well in other sports – and indeed, in former triathletes moving on and finding success elsewhere.

There were of course many hundreds of multisport athletes racing through the mud this past weekend, with quite a few past and present names returning home with County Championship Gold, Silver or Bronze medals. Now, with so many events taking place, lots of different categories, here is a start on the medal success of names that we have consistently seen performing well in the triathlon and duathlon world in recent years.

We know it is not complete… which is where you come in!

*** If we’ve missed you, your club-mate or someone you know from this list of 2019 County Cross Country Championship medal winners / notable performances, then a) apologies, and b) please do let me know the details (County / Name / Position / Category) via [email protected], and I’ll get the details updated for you. ***

Yorkshire

Jonathan Brownlee – 3rd, Senior Men
Elliott Smales – 6th, Senior Men
Gordon Benson – 10th, Senior Men

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsQvYmGA3_e/

Sussex

Bethany Cook – 1st, U15 Girls
Almi Nerurkar – 1st, Junior Women

Surrey

Gillian Sanders – 4th, Senior Women (1st V35)
Natalie Seymour – 11th Senior Women

Love a bit of XC & had a lot of fun pulling on the @RanelaghHarrier vest for Surrey County Champs. Always super competitive & painful, loved it! 😁 pic.twitter.com/HI18o3SabF

— Gillian Sanders (@gillcurrsanders) January 5, 2019

Middlesex

Freya Thomson – 1st, Under-20 Women

Merseyside

Daniel Slater – 3rd, Junior Men
Olivia Logan – 1st, U15 Female

Leicestershire & Rutland

Lucy Hall – 2nd, Senior Women
Claire Shea-Simmonds – 2nd, V40 Women
Christopher Perham – 4th, Senior Men
Thomas Davis – 10th Senior Men

Been 10 yrs since I’ve thrown a club vest on & ran round a muddy field.

Enjoyed the course & happy to be racing cross country again.

Well done to @LucyCrookes1 who glided around the course to take the win. 🏃‍♀️🥈for me. #crosscountryrunning #countychamps #holmfirthharriers pic.twitter.com/XEAW23GrQ9

— Lucy Buckingham (@Lucy_Tri) January 5, 2019

Muddy fun with the lovely @racehub_uk ladies today at the County Cross Country Champs. The pre race smiles quickly became grimaces during the race! pic.twitter.com/r5M4ZmrOyg

— Claire Shea-Simonds (@ClaireSSTri) January 5, 2019

Lancashire

Katie Hewison – 1st, Senior Women

Still loving those hills after far too many races on this course! #crosscountryrunning #CountyChamps pic.twitter.com/5rwkTJ1WT0

— Katie Hewison (@katie_hewison) January 6, 2019

Kent

Claire Elms – 1st, V55 Women

Hampshire

Andy Greenleaf – 2nd, Senior Men (1st V35)

Gloucestershire

Gwen Kinsey – 1st, V40 Women

Essex

Adam Hickey – 1st, Senior Men

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsQV0g8lUtm/

Oxfordshire

Jack Shayler – 1st, Senior Men

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsTK8cRBYBN/

Hertfordshire

Paul Adams – 1st, Senior Men
Natalie Lawrence – 3rd, Senior Women
Antonia Jubb – 2nd, U15 Girls

Bronze 🥉for me today at the herts county x country 🏃‍♀️ not exactly “earnt” as 3rd cut the course badly (& unsure even how!?) so muggins got promoted 🤣#crosscountry #running #marathon #hertfordshire pic.twitter.com/Rvl0lSoDvC

— Natalie Lawrence (Barnard) (@nataliebarnard1) January 6, 2019