UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championships 2026
Students celebrated phenomenal results, as part of the Suffolk team, at this year’s UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championships, which took place last Saturday, 7 March. The Suffolk U17 boys team even made local headlines, with their podium finish and Bronze medal, alongside other Suffolk age group teams, competing against the best the UK has to offer.
Suffolk Team results:
- U13 Girls 15th
- U13 Boys 35th
- U15 Girls 14th
- U15 Boys 5th
- U17 Girls 27th
- U17 Boys 3rd
- U20 Men 9th
- Senior Men 20th
- Senior Women 9th
Across these teams, Woodbridge School had twelve representatives and nine of our runners contributed to being in the top four scorers of those age groups, with others keeping the other counties at bay!
Best Individual Performances:
Year 8’s Chloe was a standout performance of the day coming home in the U13s category in 5th position, which is incredible for her age. Her finishing time to note was only seven seconds adrift of a podium finish. This sets Chloe on a brilliant track for her first ever English Schools in Liverpool this Saturday. Chloe’s team came 15th overall out of 41 teams with Year 7’s Florence coming in 281st, having a very brave run and super strong sprint finish home in her first nationals race.
In his category, with his innate belief and ability to deliver consistently great performances, Year 9’s Dex finished 16th place, a year young in this age group. This is outstanding and puts Dex in a brilliant position heading into the English Schools final this weekend where he will then be top of his age group in the Suffolk Schools’ team. Dex’s U15 team were Suffolk’s second best team result on the day finishing 5th overall. Year 10’s Hamish played a significant part towards this result, coming home in a superb 31st. Year 10’s Digby came in 126th and this also helps displace other runners for his Suffolk team.
Year 13’s Angus had a brilliantly strong run coming home in 69th position for the U20 mens race and helped his team gain a 9th position overall.
Year 11’s Romilly was 111th in the U17 girls race; her strength hugely noticeable flying up those hills knocking many places along the way!
Our U15 Year 9 girls delivered their usual strong performance for the county with Ella K coming home as second Suffolk runner and 68th overall with her year group teammates, India J came in 82nd and Alexandra closely following in 89th. India B came in 136th then did a great job of displacing other runners for her team.
Another mention goes out to Year 8’s Florence and Oliver L, and Year 9’s India B who ran their first ever inter counties race.
All in all, an impactful day with great achievements by the Woodbridge School runners ,and it’s worth noting many of whom are running a year young in their categories which makes the results even more impressive.
Good luck to the nine Woodbridge School athletes competing for Suffolk Schools at the English Schools Cross Country Championships in Liverpool this coming Saturday, which will mark the end of the season for all those athletes competing.
