Club Info

A CLUB FOR ALL

Our club covers all aspects of athletics. We offer training, coaching and competition in all Track and Field disciplines, and for Cross Country and Road Runners.

We cater for athletes from 9 years upwards, helping them to develop the skills, conditioning and confidence they need to fulfil their potential as athletes.

Following a couple of years severely restricted by lockdowns, the Club is in full swing once again, enjoying success in all areas.

Our Track and Field teams are having another excellent season, with our Junior, Senior and Veterans teams all performing very well in their Leagues.

And our individual athletes have once again excelled themselves, for example:-

  • Two of our Veteran athletes won Silver medals at the recent World Indoor Masters Championships – Simon Barrett in the 200m and Craig Beecham in the Long Jump.
  • Four of the throws group qualified for the National Schools championships, and another of the group won two gold medals at the recent Inter-Services championships.

In the CrossCountry season, we had several individual and team medallists at the County Championship, and a number of age group title winners in the Oxford League.

Last year, one of our athletes Izzy Fry won Gold at the World University Cross Country championships.

On the Road we run our own league to stimulate participation and competition.

And we have some outstanding runners, who have produced some quite extraordinary performances recently – such as Danny Hawkins setting all sorts of records in the Ultra Marathon events, and Mike Sheridan winning both the London and Chicago Marathons for his age group in recent years.

WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY

Tania, Sue, Ady & Pete working with the community

Our club is about participation as well as performance. One of the ways we demonstrate this is by organising two mass participation races each year, the Newbury 10K in May, and the Highclere 10k in September.

This year our Newbury 10k was so successful that it produced a £10,000 donation to a local charity – Berkshire Youth.

Newbury AC is most definitely a Club to be proud of, in very many ways.

Newbury Athletic Club's female athletes accepting their prizes for competing in the ROK 10k
Newbury Athletic Club's males accepting their prizes for competing in the ROK 10k
Callum accepting his prize for winning the ROK 10k