Sarah Dugdale, one of the mainstays of Skipton AC, completed the third leg of a unique county championship medal treble when she won a title at the Yorkshire Junior Fell Racing Championships, writes Roger Ingham.

It is the first time that an athlete either male or female in any age group has managed to win county championship medals at cross-country, track and fell racing all in the same year.

Competing at Under 20 women's level Dugdale, who lives in Hellifield and works at Skipton's Aireville Pool, started her outstanding sequence when she triumphed at the Yorkshire Cross-Country Championships in January at Rotherham. Then on successive Saturdays this month she won silver in the 3,000 metres at the Yorkshire Athletics Championships at Cleckheaton and then struck gold again in the Yorkshire Fell Racing Championships over West Nab, Meltham.

The last event also included the second round of the six series England Junior Championships, and a day before her 19th birthday her win saw her go clear in her national age group as she had also won the England opener in Shropshire.

Also at Meltham Skipton AC members Kate Rogan, Sally Shepherd, Mark Anderson, Adam Whaites and James Greenhalgh won medals.

Rogan was third in the England category and Yorkshire silver medallist in the Under 18 women, Shepherd was sixth in the England category and won the Yorkshire title in the Under 16 girls, Anderson finished ninth in the England category and was Yorkshire bronze medallist in the Under 18 men and Whaites and Greenhalgh were fourth and fifth respectively in the England category and won silver and bronze in the Under 14 boys.

And Grassington's James Mason, a member of Bingley Harriers, was sixth in the England category and won the Yorkshire title in the Under 16 boys.

Also running particularly well was David Shepherd, brother of Sally, who was third in the non-championship Under 12 boys' event.

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