Brilliant Bronze & GB Call up for Nesbitt
Tue, 11th Feb 20BUCS Cross Country Championships Report: Edinburgh, 1st Feb.
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Jenny Nesbitt stormed to a brilliant 3rd place in the Senior women’s long course race, and earned her call up for the World Universities Cross-Country Championships. https://www.bucs.org.uk/events-page/world-university-cross-country-championships.html?tab=Team%20
The Cardiff Met women’s team, finished a superb 6th overall, with a strong run from fresher’s Grace Copeland 14th & Jasmine Cooper 50th. In the men’s short course another fresher, Sam Goodchild showed huge confidence to lead early on in the race, and finished 19th. This helped the team to 7th place overall. The women’s short course team, had good strength and in numbers and finished in the top 20 teams, in 18th.
Men’s long course had drama, when after only 100m, our men’s captain Ciaran Lewis, tripped and fell badly. This cost the team an almost certain team medal, as they finished 4th overall. This was still a very good team performance, and the leader home in 5th Jake Smith, was also higher enough for World Universities selection, but deciding to concentrate on the World Half champs. Matt Edwards was in support, with a class 17th and Dan Nash also ran smartly for 20th.
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Results:
Men’s long course team 4th
5th 1027 Jake Smith Male Cardiff Met 00:32:58
17 1030 Matt Edwards Male Cardiff Met 00:33:37
20 1022 Dan Nash Male Cardiff Met 00:33:51
33 1024 Iestyn Morgan Harrett Male Cardiff Met 00:34:12
65 1036 Thomas Gostelow Male Cardiff Met 00:35:11
Women’s Long course team 6th
3rd 133 Jenny Nesbitt Female Cardiff Met 00:29:22
14 128 Grace Copeland Female Cardiff Met 00:30:36
50 132 Jasmine Cooper Female Cardiff Met 00:32:56
98 129 Hana Blake Female Cardiff Met 00:34:49
Men’s Short course team 7th
19th 1033 Samuel Goodchild Male Cardiff Met 00:27:24
23 1026 Jack Hope Male Cardiff Met 00:27:30
53 1028 Jordan Wood Male Cardiff Met 00:28:12
106 1025 Iestyn Williams Male Cardiff Met 00:29:14
159 1023 Harry Dyall Male Cardiff Met 00:30:03
179 1036 Themis Bower Male Cardiff Met 00:30:17
215 1031 Robert Howorth Male Cardiff Met 00:30:47
228 1032 Sam Richardson Male Cardiff Met 00:30:55
380 1037 William Forster Male Cardiff Met 00:33:43
454 1034 Samuel Jackson Male Cardiff Met 00:35:22
Women’s short course team 18th
142th 131 Jade Littlechild Female Cardiff Met 00:27:09
147 134 Klara Lyne Female Cardiff Met 00:27:15
170 130 Isabel Watkins Female Cardiff Met 00:27:31
173 136 Molly Andrews Female Cardiff Met 00:27:32
202 135 Megan Tucker Female Cardiff Met 00:28:02
242 127 Frances Moretto Female Cardiff Met 00:28:45
339 137 Phoebe Marsden Female Cardiff Met 00:30:39
391 138 Rhiannon Teuten Female Cardiff Met 00:31:45