Harriers Win Women’s KFL Team Title

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Congratulations to the Canterbury Harriers women’s team who came second to Petts Wood runners in the final Kent Fitness League fixture at Allhallows on 12th February and in doing so took the league’s female team title just ahead of Sevenoaks AC. Emily Collins came second in the women’s race, her best result of the season, and was narrowly edged out of third place in the individual standings by Emily Hale of Medway & Maidstone with a margin of only 0.15 of a rating point. The other scoring runners were Barbara Grogan (V45), Claire Pluckrose (V35) and Nicky Leatherbarrow (V55), with Katriona Sharp finishing before Nicky but not scoring due to the age category requirements.

In the combined race the club came fourth and in the men’s team event the Harriers were fifth. Peter Hogben took another runner-up spot and thus also came second man in the individual men’s championship. Yiannis Christodoulou had his best race of the season coming seventh and finished eighth in the men’s individual championship. Other scoring runners were Matt Slark, Fiouse Corbeil, Colin Kent, Chris Morrison, Adam Cowper-Smith and Steve Clark, with Ben Parmar and James Pullen finishing before some of the scorers but not counting due to the age requirements.

The club finished fourth in the combined team championship and sixth in the men’s.

Individually several club runners won awards for the 2022-23 season. For the men, as well as Peter Hogben‘s excellent runner-up spot, Greg Norman took the M60-64 prize and Steve Clark was most improved man. For the women, Joanne Norrington became F35-39 champion, Claire Pluckrose took the F50-54 title, Nicky Leatherbarrow was first F55-59 and Barbara Wenman took yet another KFL award, winning the F60-64 championship. Remarkably this was Barbara’s 14th consecutive KFL season in which she has won an individual award. Emma Garcia-Solley won the league’s most improved lady title. Congratulations to all those that won awards.

36 Canterbury Harriers finished

Ov Pos Lg Pos Runner Age Time Score Rtg #
2 2 Peter Hogben 30 34:24 M1 99.61 23
7 7 Yiannis Christodoulou 39 36:08 M2 97.67 40
43 2 Emily Collins 28 40:48 F1 99.35 11
47 44 Matt Slark 34 41:09 M3 83.33 17
49 46 Ben Parmar 28 41:14 NSBLS 82.56 7
57 53 Fiouse Corbeil 50 42:10 V50:1 79.84 25
75 68 James Pullen 21 43:21 NSBLS 74.03 3
110 16 Barbara Grogan 50 45:39 V45 90.20 3
111 17 Claire Pluckrose 54 45:48 V35 89.54 23
116 97 Colin Kent 57 46:04 V50:2 62.79 67
119 21 Katriona Sharp 40 46:13 NSBLS 86.93 9
122 22 Nicky Leatherbarrow 56 46:22 V55 86.27 6
127 104 Chris Morrison 47 46:34 V40:1 60.08 4
142 26 Barbara Wenman 64 47:29 NS 83.66 103
162 129 Adam Cowper-Smith 64 48:29 V60 50.39 38
170 36 Olivia Wigdahl 24 48:54 NS 77.12 5
173 136 Steve Clark 69 49:00 V40:2 47.67 132
185 144 Mark Wenman 68 50:14 NS 44.57 98
189 147 John Cooper 63 50:31 NS 43.41 34
204 156 Nathaniel Wells 29 51:48 NS 39.92 8
236 178 Paul Moore 58 53:16 NS 31.40 7
241 181 Mike Jefferies-Pottle 54 53:31 NS 30.23 5
251 186 Matthew Northover 54 54:06 NS 28.29 29
255 67 Hannah Wilding 29 54:23 NS 56.86 14
260 190 Marco Keir 61 54:38 NS 26.74 69
272 198 Bob Davison 68 55:13 NS 23.64 85
280 203 Peter Yarlett 70 55:50 NS 21.71 62
295 85 Emily Parris 30 57:42 NS 45.10 3
296 86 Deb Parris 54 57:42 NS 44.44 29
301 212 Joe Hicks 69 58:29 NS 18.22 73
319 220 Tony Savage 68 1:00:32 NS 15.12 54
344 111 Emma Garcia-Solley 32 1:02:33 NS 28.10 11
350 236 Geoff Burston 73 1:02:57 NS 8.91 24
364 125 Shirley Pullen 58 1:05:07 NS 18.95 37
375 132 Karen Hoult 58 1:06:56 NS 14.38 30
391 250 Roy Gooderson 65 1:09:51 NS 3.49 81

Full results are on the KFL site.

Daren Parris has produced a series of videos of the race:

Robin Bell has produced a YouTube video report of the race, including interviews with Peter Hogben and Emily Collins:

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