PICTURE GALLERY: Kilworth Challenge hits £1m mark
Challenge...team Tetley Terriors tackles the chariots during the Kilworth challenge event. (Picture: Andrew Carpenter/001404-51)
‘THANKS a million!’, said organisers of this year’s Kilworth Challenge after fundraising by the annual event reached the magic seven-figure sum.
This year’s Challenge raised more than £70,000 including gift aid contributions, taking to an incredible £1.02m the amount raised by the event in its 22-year history.
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Nick Otter said the organising committee, including himself, Colin Clarke, Paul Whitehead, Mike Lawrence, Bruce Phillips, Duncan Moss, Mick Faulkner, Chris Mitchell and Manfred Morris would like to express their appreciation to everyone that helped.
He added: “Especially the marshals, landowners and the Kilworth House Hotel.
“Special thanks goes to the competitors themselves who kept smiling through the wet, wind and the rain. Thanks a million!”
A total of 35 teams braved the atrocious conditions over the weekend to take on more than 30 challenges, among them an obstacle course swinging through the trees, racing in the mud, a scary roundabout, word and number puzzles, and a cross country course.
This year’s event also paid tribute to two Kilworth Challenge stalwarts who have died in the last year.
There was a red theme to the proceedings in honour of North Kilworth’s Claire Squires, who died while running the London Marathon in April - red was her favourite colour.
The trophy for the best female team was also renamed The Claire Squires Trophy, while the Over-40s trophy was renamed the Andrew Emery Trophy in honour of the North Kilworth man who died in August.
Mr Otter said: “They were very fitting tributes to two fine individuals who always competed in the best traditions of the Challenge.”
The overall event was won this year by ‘Three Teachers and a Shelf Stacker’ led by a previous winner, John Fish of North Kilworth, with Matt Soulsby, Mark O’Dea and Steve Dean.
Second was a Lutterworth-based team - ‘Don’t Look Back’ - made up of Tony Brown, Mark English, Keith Richmond and Simon Jones.
In third-place were ‘The Bosworth Boys’ from Husbands Bosworth, featuring Jack Johnston, Patrick O`Neill, Sam Caves and Steve Harwood.
The winning female team was ‘Four Shes to the Wind’, comprising Catherine Weston, Lucy Dunkley, Sara Young and Caroline Du Plessis, who also won the fastest female yomper.
The fastest male runner was ‘Lads and Dads’ team member Michael Burke from North Kilworth.
Mixed team winners were ‘The Crown Joules’ from Harborough, comprising Tom Joule, Simon Dowling, Paul Price and Emma Davies.
The Over-40s category was won by ‘The Kilworth Lions’, featuring Adam Herring, John Linnell, Stefan Green and Neil Foster.
‘Running on Carling’, made up of Simon Jones, Stuart Conopo, Ben Hurst and Jason Wright, once again won the prize for raising the most money, achieving an impressive £4,171 through sponsorship
Mr Otter said: “The bulk of this year`s sponsorship will go to Dukes Barn in Derbyshire, the Leicestershire Club for Young People, and Over the Wall - three Midland based charities that help disadvantaged and handicapped children.
“The remainder will go to local charities and good causes in the Market Harborough area.”
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