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Silvers in the London XC Champs

We had a successful Saturday at Parliament Hill with the Thames Women picking up silver medals at the London Cross Country Championships. Lizzy Apsley led the team home in 9th closely followed by Daisy Irving-Hyman in 11th while Claire Hammett and Ruby Woolfe closed out the scoring team in 19th and 21st.

Oxford-Cambridge University Cross-Country Races 2025: Celebrating 50 Years of Women’s Varsity Competition

Saturday 6th December will witness an important milestone in the history of the Oxford-Cambridge Cross-Country Races with a celebration of the 50th anniversary of women’s cross-country at the universities.

Following the steady rise in the numbers of female students at both universities in the post-war period, both clubs opened to women members in the early 1970s and on 15th November 1975, Oxford’s women took part in their first official race, a contest against Birmingham University at Shotover. Two weeks later, the very first race against Cambridge was staged at the same venue alongside the men’s races for the second, third, fourth and fifth teams. Oxford won comfortably by 7 points to 14 in a three-to-score contest with Cathy Meunier (St. Hugh’s) taking the individual honours.

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30th Parkland Relays

The 30th Parkland Relays took place on Wednesday 4th June in Richmond Park. In the men’s competition, Thames took took the team honours from Ful on Tri and Wimbledon Windmilers. The first veteran team home was Ranelagh Harriers. Fastest time of the day (14:16) was recorded on leg 1 by Thames’ former club captain, James … Read more

Gold again at the Southern XC Champs

This Saturday Thames Women took home the South of England Cross Country title at Beckenham Place Park. We won this title back in 2019 and took silver last year so we knew it was possible but it took a big team performance to beat strong Belgrave and Aldershot teams. Lizzy led us home as she … Read more

Ed Catmur

Thames Hare & Hounds members joined Ed’s family, SLOW, other orienteers and his friends from the Comrades Marathon at the Fulham Palace parkrun on Saturday 4th January to mark the first anniversary of Ed’s tragic death. Here pictured gathered at his memorial bench in Fulham Palace Park after the run.

2024 Oxford-Cambridge University Cross-Country Races

In windy, wet and very muddy conditions, Oxford took their first double victory in the University Cross-Country Races since 2017 on Saturday 7th December.

In the 48th Ladies’ Race, despite Cambridge having the top two home in Niamh Bridson Hubbard (Magdalene) and Bea Wood (Lucy Cavendish), Oxford packed their eight runners in the next nine places to take victory by 37 points to 47. This was their second win in a row and third in four years and they now lead the series by 28 wins to 20. Given the testing conditions, Bridson Hubbard posted a very impressive winning time of 23:34.

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