St Bedes claim schools title with a winning medal-haul

With a total of four medals St Bedes emerged the top school at the Bristol Schools' Cross Country Championships.

The Catholic College in Lawrence Weston claimed one team gold, two silvers and a bronze to finish one ahead of Cotham School, St Mary Redcliffe and Redland Green School.

It was the schools' junior boys who took centre stage with David McMillan leading by example with overall victory as he atoned for an unfortunate fall in the 2008 event. The other winning team members were Conor Matthews, Rowan Nevin and Wesley Long.

Among Cotham School's three medals were two golds for the inter girls' and boys' squads of Saskia Manson, Safya Saleem, Emily Harris, Emily Sterne, Freddie Barton, James Cooley, James Barclay and Django Reeves respectively.

Individually Clifton College's athletes were the most successful with five medals, including golds for Charlotte Banks (minor girls) and Caspian James (senior boys).

Bristol Schools' Cross Country Championships, Bristol Grammar School – AP=Ashton Park; B=Brislington; BD=Bedminster Down; BM=Bristol Metropolitan; C=Cotham School; CC=Clifton College; CG=Colston's Girls; CH=Clifton High; CS; Colston School; F=Fairfield; QEH=Queen Elizabeth Hospital School; R=Redmaids; RGS=Redland Green School; SB=St Bernadettes; SBd=St Bedes; SMR=St Mary Redcliffe.

Senior girls: 1 Rosemary Hurford (CH); 2 Alice Carpenter (CS); 3 Becky Barlow (R); 4 Rachel Evans (CH); 5 Sandra Ismagilova (CC); 6 Rebecca Hopkins (R ); 7 Iveta Kuzminska (CC).

Inter girls:1 Floren Scrafton (F); 2 Olivia Sadler (CG); 3 Victoria Kenny (CC); 4 Billie Williams (CG); 5 Saskia Manson (C ); 6 Megan Fowler (CC); 7 Safya Saleem (C ); 8 Anna Ashford (RGS); 9 Charlotte Dougal (CH); 10 Amy Flaskett (CH).

Teams: 1 Cotham School 16; 2 Redland Green School 26; 3 St Mary Redcliffe 39.

Junior girls: 1 Miranda Sadler (CG); 2 Maria Jones (CS); 3 Becky Harris (RGS); 4 Bella Wickens (CC); 5 Hannah Cockram CG); 6 Holly Howard (CG); 7 Amy Reade (CG); 8 Anicia Skeates (SBd); 9 Abi Hall (C ); 10 Jemima Scrace (CC).

Teams: 1 Colston Girls 15; 2 Redland Green School 34; 3 St Bedes 49.

Minor girls: 1 Charlotte Banks (CC); 2 Emma Taylor (RGS); 3 Natasha Nussbaum (SB); 4 Emma Jones (C); 5 Megan Long (CG); 6 Erin Whalan (RGS); 7 Christie Evans (B); 8 Evie Fyfe Williams (RGS); 9 Lydia Waller (SMR); 10 Monique Ben-Carew (BD).

Teams: 1 Redland Green School 20; 2 St Bedes 53; 3 Ashton Park School 55.

Senior boys: 1 Caspian James (CC); 2 Simon Reynolds (CC).

Inter boys: 1 Zak Tobias (QEH); 2 Freddy Barton (C ); 3 Felix McGrath (SBd); 4 Unknown; 5 George Hurford (QEH); 6 Zac Marsh (AP); 7 Josh Bickley (AP); 8 Ben Hawkey-Guilder (RGS); 9 Kyran Amesbury (BD); 10 Johnnie Graham (CC).

Teams: 1 Cotham School 29; 2 Ashton Park School 39; 3 St Mary Redcliffe 41.

Junior boys: 1 David McMillan (SBd); 2 James Morris (CC); 3 Will Bamber (QEH); 4 Josh Evans (C ); 5 Kyle Williams (C ); 6 Richard McBrown (BM); 7 Jack Lase (QEH); 8 Jack Miller (QEH); 9 Sam Hilton (SMR); 10 Conor Matthews (SBd).

Teams: 1 St Bedes 33; 2 Brislington Enterprise College 44; 3 Ashton Park School 48.

Minor boys: 1 Farhan Suleyman (BM); 2 Zak Pearce (B); 3 Fraser Devlin (AP); 4 Tom Scruton (CC); 5 James Alexander (Sbd); 6 Aaron Coleman (Sbd); 7 Scott Matthew (BGS); 8 C Prescott (CS); 9 Henry Burns (QEH); 10 Ethan Wilson (SMR).

Teams: 1 Redland Green School 20; 2 St Bedes 53; 3 Ashton Park School 55.

* In the North Somerset Schools' Championships at Blaise Castle the overall team title went to Gordano School, who won both the girls' and boys' titles.

Overall boys: 1 Gordano 91; 2 Clevedon 153; 3 Churchill 212; 4 Backwell 214; 5 Priory 243; 6 Nailsea 249.

Overall girls: 1 Gordano 109; 2 Backwell 111; 3 Clevedon 144; 4 Churchill 241; 5 Priory 261.