GRACE Copeland and William Rabjohns starred as Dorset’s squad claimed five individual medals at the South West Cross-Country Championship.

Copeland clocked 15:54 on a testing 4km course at Aldon Park in Yeovil, winning by half a minute. She led Wimborne AC to team gold and Dorset under-17 women to second in the county competition.

Rabjohns, a three time Cross Challenge winner in the autumn, ran 3km in 12:20 to dominate the under-13 boys. His Poole AC club-mate Emilie Castagna was runner-up in the under-15 girls.

Serena O’Connor of Poole Runners was third in the junior women’s event with Emma Martin (Wimborne AC) fourth.

Poole AC’s Tom Austin was third in the senior men’s race, claiming a second straight championship medal. Amy Bond was fifth in the senior women’s race, with Nancy Taylor runner-up in a non-championship race for under-11 girls.

Dorset results (Wimborne AC unless stated) – senior men: 3 Tom Austin (PAC) 30:40, 15 Joshua King (BAC) 32:04, 30 Chris Alborough (PAC) 33:11, 34 Dominic Willmore (PR) 33:18, 35 Jamie Grose (PAC) 33:27, 42 Piers Copeland 33:59, 51 Tom East (PR) 34:39, 58 Joseph Kelliher 35:08, 74 Steve Claxton (PR) 36:08, 85 Ian Luke (PR) 37:05, 93 Joseph Mitchell (PR) 37:53, 104 Adam Gough (DAC) 39:17, 109 Thomas Paskins (BAC) 39:46, 116 Simon Wildbur (PAC) 40:29, 119 Clint Cornick (DAC) 41:27, 120 Michael Jurd 41:47, 125 David Crowther (DAC) 43:20, 128 Peter Kingswell-Farr 44:31. County: 4 Dorset 142. Club: 7 Poole Runners 337. Under-20 county: 3 Dorset 52.

Under-17 men: 21 Michael Johnson 20:43, 27 Nathaniel Willmore (PR) 21:40.

Under-15 boys: 30 Zac Cloete (PAC) 16:11, 31 Ben Martin 16:16, 38 Thomas Farwell (BAC) 16:37, 41 Seth Lake 16:33, 43 Seth Hall Nunn (DAC) 16:41, 46 Charlie Davis 16:48, 50 William Bodle (PR) 16:54, 54 Tom Fuller 17:02, 58 Joel Green 17:17, 59 Oliver Rawles 17:21, 71 Josh Jack 18:54, 74 Euan Bruce (PR) 19:47, 75 Jacob Small (PR) 21:01. County: 6 Dorset 106. Club: 6 Wimborne AC 172.

Under-13 boys: 1 William Rabjohns (PAC) 12:20, 18 Tristan Green 13:53, 23 George Mahon (PAC) 14:05, 38 Edward Bird (DAC) 14:49, 40 Guy Scarborough (DAC) 15:00, 45 Oscar Davis 15:10, 49 Wdward Mercer 15:25, 50 Finlay Nunn (PR) 15:26, 53 Jay Dunn 15:33, 54 Sam Farwell (BAC) 15:34, 59 Joseph Healey 16:30. County: 5 Dorset 73. Club: 4 Wimborne AC 165.

Senior women: 5 Amy Bond (PAC) 22:22, 42 Sharon Hutchings (Dorset Doddlers) 25:20, 44 Sharon Shaw (PR) 25:36, 54 Helen Southcott (Maiden Newton) 26:27, 66 Sarah Swift (PR) 29:06, 68 Tina Mercer 32:42. County: 5 Dorset 229.

Junior women: 3 Serena O’Connor (PR) 22:41, 4 Emma Martin 23:01.

Under-17 women: 1 Grace Copeland 15:54, 10 Madeleine Johnson (DAC) 17:44, 11 Isabelle Taylor (PAC) 17:47, 16 Bethanie Kingswell-Farr 18:27, 24 Lita Short (PR) 19:03, 28 Alice Sullivan (Salisbury) 19:17, 30 Hannah Fairchild 19:34, 37 Isabelle Kingswell-Farr 20:20. County: 2 Dorset 38 Club: 1 Wimborne AC 84.

Under-15 girls: 2 Emilie Castagna 15:02, 9 Holly Nixon 15:45, 24 Maddy Herbert (DAC) 16:21, 42 Izzy Rabjohns (PAC) 17:42, 46 Demi-Marie Goddard 18:03, 56 Isabelle Somers (PR) 19:06, 57 Abbi Slade 19:49. County: 5 Dorset 72.

Under-13 girls: 14 Sarah Graham 15:05, 42 Isabella Cox 16:17, 48 Kate Simmonds 16:25, 51 Susanna Forster (PR) 16:31, 52 Kate Wilkinson (PR) 16:40, 58 Georgina Stokes (PR) 18:00, 61 Millie Small (PR) 20:00. County: 6 Dorset 131. Club: 6 Poole Runners 222.

Key to clubs: BAC – Bournemouth AC, DAC – Dorchester AC, PAC – Poole AC, PR – Poole Runners.