Athletics

The Isle of Wight are taking a team of 30 athletes to the Island Games in Guernsey - competing in a total of 42 events. Our Island Athletics team will be hoping to improve on their 5th place in the...

Ryde Harriers travelled to the Lordshill district of Southampton to run the Lordshill 10k, an annual race route with origins in the 1990s and revised in 2007. The event was rightly promoted as a ‘friendly’ road race hosted by ‘Southampton’s...

Wight Tri members competed in an Island Games fundraising event, a GO Tri Super-sprint Triathlon, at Yaverland Sailing Club over the weekend. 15 competitors took part in this event, which started with a 400m sea swim, followed by an undulating...

The Isle of Wight will be represented by both a Men's and Women's team at the Island Games in Guernsey - the same location where the Island secured its only Triathlon gold back in 2003. The team is comprised of...

Talented Athlete Archie Pearson has been selected to run for Hampshire at the English Schools Championships in Birmingham next month. Archie's selection follows an impressive result at the Hampshire County Championships this month, where he won a silver medal in...

Ryde Harriers took part in the annual Alresford Rotary 10-kilometre race on Sunday (18th June). After having taken the 06:00 ferry to this quiet Georgian town (which was kindly recognised by the race announcer with his loud microphone), a warmup...

Lola Shaw, Daisy Sheaff and Raymond Groves have all been selected to represent the Isle of Wight in the Hampshire Athletics Championship. Lola will run in the 200 metres, Daisy in the 100 metres and Raymond will compete in the...

Wight Tri members Mike Kimber, Rob Doorly and Phil Bunn attempted to break the 6-hour mark at the Cotswold Middle Distance Triathlon. This event consisted of a 1.2 mile open water swim, 56 mile cycle and a 13.1 mile half...

Nearly 150 competitors took part in the Brading 10km organised by Ryde Harriers, with an unusual Sunday evening start.  The race provided the ‘headline event’ to start the Isle of Wight Festival of running (4th-13th June) this year.  After a...

2 Wight Tri members and IW Talented Award athletes - Jan Fletcher and Liz Dunlop - took on 2 British Triathlon Federation (BTF) age group qualification events over the last 2 weekends, achieving qualification for the 2024 European Championships. Eton...