Aldershot, Farnham & District AC members shone in the Inter-Counties championships which incorporated the World cross-country trials at Nottingham on Saturday.

Charlotte Browning won the U/13 girls' event, but Chris Thompson's success in the short-course trial was marred when, despite finishing sixth, he was named second reserve for the six-man team in next month's world championships.

There was compensation for AFD when Ed Jackson, who has been competing second-claim for them, took the last of the three automatic qualifying places for the junior men's team to represent Great Britain in Dublin.

Jackson lives near Farnham and shares the same coach, Mick Woods, as Thompson.

Browning, another Woods athlete, was a class apart in her race. A clear leader before she reached the top of the hill which graces the start at Wollaton Park, the South of England champion finished in 11mins, 48, some 22 seconds before Kirsty Law who had won the Midlands title at the same venue a fortnight earlier.

The Worcester girl was only six seconds in front of the bronze medallist, AFD's Emma Pallant. The latter led Winchester's Donna Meachem (12-16) and AFD clubmate Hannah Jones (12-20) who filled the next two places, plus India Lee (12-30) who made it four AFD athletes in the top eight, to gold for Hampshire (Browning competes for Sussex).

The club also supplied three-quarters of the team which took gold for Hampshire in the U/15 girls' event. Leonie Smith was 12th in 16mins 07, Rachel Driver 15th (16-15) and Nikki Bartholomew 27th (16-33).

Georgie Furze led a Surrey team which was completed by Kiri Nowak's 61st (17-00) to fourth. Her 22nd place in 16-27 meant that an AFD quartet would have beaten all the counties in this event as well.

Laurence Cox, fifth in 11mins 18 in the U/13 boys' race, led a Hampshire side which also included AFD colleagues (David Smith, 41st in 12-05, and Greg Smith, 49th in 12-07) to the bronze medals, while Ben Wilson, 10th in 11-37, and Stephen Blake, 17th in 11-45, formed the first half of the Surrey quartet which came 10th.

In the U/17 women's competition, Hampshire took silver, aided by Tahli Gill in 42nd with 21mins 22. But AFDs highest placed member was Sarah Pickett, 21st as she led Surrey to ninth.

The lowest position occupied by Hampshire's women was fourth, in both the seniors' (with Lisa Lavender 59th) and U/20s' (led by Ava Hutchinson's 19th in 25mins 30). Also in the latter event, Clementine Adams was Surrey's first home with 38th in 26-41,

Andrew Friend, 24th in 16mins 00, and Lee Harper, 58th in 16-31, were in the Hampshire team which came fifth in the U/15 boys' event where Matt Leslie was Surrey's first home with 28th in 16-07.

Adam Vandenberg, 31st in 22-41, Ali Smith 39th in 22-31 and Graham Russ, 92nd in 23-37, comprised three-quarters of the Hampshire side which was seventh in the U/17 men's.

Another AFD trio (Dan McCarthy, 46th in 28mins 26, Phil Banks, 51st in 28-32 and Rob Larkin 61st in 29-02) contributed to Hampshire's 10th in the U/20 men's. Dan Getliffe, 49th in 41mins 15, and Karl Corpes, 119th in 43-02, were members of the Surrey team which placed ninth in the senior men's contest.