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Sienna Lavine became the first athlete from Pontefract Athletics Club to win a Yorkshire Cross Country Championship gold medal when she triumphed in the under 13 girls race at Lightwater Valley, ahead of a field of 45 runners.

Sienna went into a slight lead at an early stage and, despite only being in her first year in the age group for cross country, she gradually increased the lead over the 2.55 kilometres course to win by 11 seconds.

Jessica Thake, from Hallamshire Harriers, was second with Alice White, from Keighley and Craven, a further 11 seconds back in third place.

Pontefract AC’s Julian Rutkowski also ran well to finish eighth in the under 13 boys race over the same distance.

Yorkshire winner Sienna Lavine (centre) with runner-up Jessica Thake (right) and Alice White, who came third.

Sienna and Julian will now be selected to represent Yorkshire in the CAU Inter Counties Athletics Cross Country Championships at Wollaton Park, Nottingham on March 8.

It will be the first time that athletes from the Pontefract club have been selected for Yorkshire in the Inter Counties Cross Country Championships.

Sienna Lavine is first Pontefract Athletics Club runner to win Yorkshire Cross Country Championship