The Goddard sisters from Rugby & Northampton AC won a County double at the NAA 3000m Championships when the race was held within the Corby AC open meeting at Rockingham Triangle.

The combined Ladies race included a field of 20 athletes and 14 year old Kirsty Goddard finished in 4th place overall with a time of 10 mins 51.0 secs to win the U17 Womens Northants title. Her older sibling Bethan clinched the U20 competition with 11:00.2 in 8th position.

One place ahead of her in exactly 11 mins was clubmate Emer Wintsch and the 13 year old took Gold in the U15 Girls race with all three athletes achieving a personal best time.

Sarah Bennett won the silver medal in the U20 event on 11:28.6, while Sian Williams took bronze in 14:51.8 for the U17 Women.

There was a superb front running display from the Senior Ladies champion when Rebecca Hall of Corby won the race by almost 25 seconds with 10:17.5.

The Mens race saw an exciting finish in the open competition by two Leicester athletes. 14 year old Ben Dijkstra just held off Veteran Gordon Lee to record 8 mins 53.0 secs and the English Schools 1500m Champion went to the top of the U15 Boys 2013 UK rankings.

In third place Rory Grant won the Senior Mens NAA title with the Birchfield Harrier recording 8:59.6 and R&N’s Chris Lamb just missed out on a medal with 9:17.5.

Also representing the club in the Veteran Men over 40 race was Steve Heighway who finished in 5th spot with 10:31.8.