Kate shines with top twenty finish in European Championships trials race

THE top local performance of the day at the British Cross Challenge, in Liverpool came from Kate Hulls in the senior women’s race.

Hulls ran superbly to finish 16^th barely a minute adrift of winner Gemma Steele and, if she is lucky, that ma put her in line fr an England vest for an overseas fixture in the coming months.

Leading local man was Bristol & West’s Owain Jones who was 20^th in the senior event.

 

British Cross Challenge, Liverpool, inc European trials – men: 1 Ross Millington (Stock) 30:09; 2 Dewi Griffiths (Swans) 30:22; 3 Tom Lancashire (Boton) 30:25.

WEST: 20 Owain Jones (B&W) 31:06; 22 Dan Studley (B&W) 31:12; 30 Graham Rush (Chelt) 31:21; 53 Ben Cldrayy (Stroud) 32:09; 54 Will Paulson (Stroud U23 15^th) 32:10; 75 Adam Speake ((B&W, U23 25^th) 32:37; 90 Ben Westhenry (B&W, U23 33^rd) 33:00; 95 Aaron Phelps (Stroud, U23 37^th) 33:06.

Women:  1 Gemma Steel(Charnwood) 27:31.

WEST: 16 Kate Hulls (B&W) 28:33; 19 Naomi Taschimowitz (SB) 28:40.