Results Competitors   (320) Relay Teams (100)

***NEW*** DATE for the next event is 25th June 2025. Please book it in your race calendar***

Tonbridge AC hosted the inaugural Tonbridge AC Midsummer Relay Race at 7pm on Wednesday 3rd July 2024 at Penshurst Place, TN11 8DG.

RACE RESULTS:

Penshurst Relays (netiming.co.uk)

Photos by Charlotte Knee Photography

TAC Penshurst Midsummer Relays 2024 (pic-time.com) 

and from Mark Hookway:

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Tonbridge AC wish to thank all clubs and participants for supporting our inaugural summer relay event, for competing in such good spirit and with great enthusiasm.

Thank you to Penshurst Place for an excellent course and for their facilities. Thank you to all marshalls, volunteers and supporters for enabling this first event to progress.

The event could not have gone ahead without generous sponsorship from Birketts, Amicus Accountancy and the Springbank Clinic in Sevenoaks with prizes kindly donated by the Running Hub in Southborough, Recovery Room Therapies in Hildenborough, Up and Running in Sevenoaks and Water Process Solutions.

We hope to welcome many of you back next summer.

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“Champion” run from Alan as Tonbridge and Cambridge Harriers take home the trophies. 

95 teams from 20 Kent and Sussex clubs competed in the inaugural Tonbridge AC Midsummer Relay Race on a warm, dry evening in Penshurst Place.   The sold-out event was also huge success for the host club’s athletes after some titanic battles over the undulating 4km route, as they took both the men’s and women’s title ahead of local rivals. Eltham based, Cambridge Harriers won the prestigious mixed team event.

In the men’s race a storming first leg run of 12.09 from Liam White of Tunbridge Wells Harriers, proved to be the fastest of the race and he was followed home by Jamie Bryant of the home club and Josh Teece of Dartford based Central Park AC. Harriers lead over the testing 4km course had been narrowed by Matt Dennis of Tonbridge on leg 2 before Steve Strange came through on the final leg to break the tape first for Tonbridge with the second fastest lap of the race. Mouctar Barry of Central Park overhauled John Laws of the Harriers for second place. Tunbridge Wells Harriers showed their immense strength in depth by also filling 4th and 5th places.

In the ladies race, Tunbridge Wells Harriers Laura Whitehead led home the first leg before Tonbridge seized the lead from their west Kent rivals through Maria Heslop and then Lucy Thompson completed the win ahead of the Harriers and Paddock Wood. Nicolene Hanekom of Sevenoaks AC was the fastest female runner of the day in a scintillating time of 14.33.

The third Alan Bennett trophy, in memory of the athletic club’s former president, was awarded to a very strong Cambridge Harriers team comprising Ben Shearer, James Macdonald and Catherine Gonzalez. They led home Sevenoaks AC and Canterbury based, Sporting Events UK.

Perhaps the biggest cheer of the day went to the oldest competitor, 81 year old Alan Champion of Istead and Iffield AC who was awarded a prize for his efforts by key sponsor, Birketts.

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Event details:

• 4km multi-terrain course through Penshurst Place’s parkland and grounds
• Teams of 3 runners
• £21 entry fee per team
• Open to club runners from under 17s and older, with a maximum of 100 teams
• 3 competitions all run within one race: male, female and mixed – with team and individual prizes
• To be held at 7pm on Wednesday 3rd July 2024 at Penshurst Place, TN11 8DG
• Kindly sponsored by Birketts, the Springbank Clinic and Amicus Accountancy 
• https://tonbridgeac.org.uk/tonbridge-ac-midsummer-relays/

Important notes:

• Only one person per club can add teams to Opentrack, any number can make and change runner declarations once the teams have been entered
• Guides for entering and editing teams and adding team members are below:  
• https://docs.opentrack.run/cms/entry/roadrelay/
• https://docs.opentrack.run/cms/entry/editrelay/
• https://docs.opentrack.run/cms/entry/relaydeclarations/