ALDERSHOT, Farnham & District AC runners came away from the Saucony English National Cross Country Championships at Donington Park in Leicestershire with four golds, one silver and one bronze in both the individual and the team categories.

The club’s senior women retained both titles. Lily Partridge (35mins 28secs) eased away from Claire Duck of Leeds City during the second of their two four-kilometre laps for a ten-second win over the North of England champion.

Of Partridge’s AFD team-mates, Georgie Bruinvels finished eighth, Louise Small 12th and Katie Bingle 26th for a score which was almost a 100 points less than the total of the quartet from runners-up Hallamshire Harriers Sheffield.

Farnham’s own Jonny Hay became senior men’s champion after repelling a late challenge from Southend on Sea’s Adam Hickey to a big lead that the AFD man had built in the 12-kilometre race. Hickey, who finished ahead of Hay in December’s European Championships, eventually crossed the line seven seconds down on the 2011 and 2012 junior champion, Hay recording 46mins 40secs.

The 2016 junior men’s champion is Ellis Cross. He won by 29 seconds from AFD colleague Gus Cockle who was 17 seconds up on Chris Olley of Tonbridge, a Great Britain junior representative in European Championships on both track and country last year.

Jack Rowe was 12th, one ahead of Matt Arnold, as they formed the second half of the victorious AFD quartet.

The club’s triumphant under-17 women’s team included the individual winner and bronze medallist. For most of the five-kilometre event, Niamh Brown and Lucy Pygott waged a battle along with Sabrina Sinha of Cambridge Harriers, a 1500m finalist at last summer’s World Youth Championships.

The tussle ended with Brown securing a five-second victory over the Kent athlete and Pygott coming home a further six seconds behind. Stacey Burrows came 19th, while Tilly Horton, 26th, finished before three of Blackheath & Bromley’s silver-medal quartet.

AFD’s other set of team golds came courtesy of their U13 boys. Ryan Martin, 11th, Harry Hyde, 16th, Sam Bodoano, 27th, and Theo Cheshire, 43rd, beat Tonbridge by 12 points.

AFD’s silver-medal winning team was the junior women’s trio of Rebecca Howard, 13th, Gabi Eglen, 28th, and Megan Gildea, 57th.

Max Heyden, 28th, Luke van Oudtshoorn, 52nd, Marcus Shantry, 53rd, and Eoin Canning, 60th, claimed bronze medals for the club in the U15 boys’ competition.

AFD’s U17 men (Jack Boswell 15th, Robbie Coupland 39th, Ollie Percival 48th, Harry Grace 94th) and U13 girls (Charlie Parsons 28th, Alice Garner 45th, Emma Boswell 104th, Charlotte Borgars 113th) both took sixth place.