Bingley's new recruit Andrew Pearson returned from the European Mountain Trophy in Italy with a silver medal. Although the host nation won both team golds, England's men's and women's returned from Sestriere with medals.

Pearson had a tremendous tussle with former world fells champion Antonio Molinari of Italy, who surged on the final ascent to take gold.

Pearson held off current world champion Marco de Gaspesi (Italy) to lead England's men to a team silver, with Mark Roberts of Borrowdale ninth and Bingley's Ian Holmes 13th to finish ahead of surprise bronze medallists Portugal.

In the women's race, 32-year-old Carol Greenwood of Bingley finished fifth after leading on the uphill sections.

Carol's strength is on the ascents as she showed last year in the European Uphill Only race in Austria where she was second. However, with a long grassy descent to the finish, the speedier Italians passed her, but with Bury's Jessica Turnbull 11th and Bingley's under 20 world champion Victoria Wilkinson 14th, the English women won team bronze behind Italy and France. Pudsey and Bramley's Yvette Hague was a creditable 20th.

And in another international event, Bingley's Richard Nerurkar dominated a half-marathon in Hardelot, France.

Nerurkar won the men's race in 63mins 25secs.

In less glamorous surroundings, the Erringden Moor Fell Race went to Todmorden's Andy Wrench in a new course record. Team-mate Jonathon Wright was over a minute behind in second, who in turn had over two minutes to spare over Huddersfield-based Alan Griffith of Bowland.

Skyrac's Duncan Asquith and Howard Sawyer were involved in a sprint finish for the veteran's award, Asquith winning by just a second, with team-mate Graham Breeze a place behind to be the first man home over 50. Bingley's Jane Smith took the women's race.

An intriguing encounter took place in the Northern Men's Track and Field Division 3C at Horsfall, with the overall lead changing hands several times before East Cheshire came out on top by winning the final relays.

Bingley settled for second ahead of Salford. Stevie Green was an awesome spectacle as he lapped most of the field in winning the 5,000 metres. Colin Moore finished third. Stevie was satisfied with his performance and now takes a week in Majorca for some warm weather training before he and Moore tackle their next objective - the prestigious Barnsley 6.

Mick Hawkins was more than disappointed with his steeplechase performance. Suffering a cold, his third place behind Salford's John Brown hardly inspired the confidence he was looking for as the Commonwealth Trials at Birmingham are only three weeks away.

Peter Broadley had another busy afternoon, winning the triple jump and high jump B. He went on to finish third in the long jump before competing in both 4x100m and 4x400 relays.

Bingley women had their fair share of winners in the Division One fixture at Cudworth. Joanne Oates won the 400m hurdles, but the star was Nicole Crosby, who triumphed in the 400m, 200m and 100m, sister Janine winning the discus for good measure. Bas Moffat's 1.62m was enough to win the high jump and Catherine O'Halleron won the under-17 javelin.

In the Skipton 10km, Jim McGivern of Beverley AC had the better of former Yorkshire 20-mile champion John Hun-ter (Loftus), but McGivern's winning time of 31-52 in windy conditions was still two minutes short of Colin Moore's course record. Bingley's Peter Probin was first man over 50 and eighth overall in 33-44. Jack Verity (St Bede's) was first over 40 in tenth place.

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