WILLIAM Rabjohns won the English National Cross-Country under-13 championships, reports Nigel Harding.

Rabjohns’ unbeaten season seemed to have ended when he fell in the Hampstead Heath mud.

Two rivals passed him, but the youngster battled back to secure Poole AC’s first national cross gold medal by a nine-second margin.

This was the St Michael’s Middle School pupil’s 11th win of a remarkable campaign.

Wimborne’s Emily Shaw missed a medal by only eight seconds as she moved through to fourth place in the under-15 girls’ race, while club-mate Grace Copeland was seventh in the under-17s.

Poole AC’s Tom Austin was 10th out of a record 2,328 senior men. PAC’s Ashia Wilson finished 20th in the under-15 girls. Serena O’Connor of Poole Runners was 24th among the junior women.

English National Cross-Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields, London – Dorset senior men: 10 Tom Austin (PAC) 40:46, 333 Brian Underwood (PAC) 47:02, 441 Tom East (PR) 48:24, 530 James McCaffery (PAC) 49:13, 755 Andrew Smith (PR) 51:33, 1153 David Wood (PAC) 55:27, 1305 Colin Somers (PR) 56:56, 1881 Peter Kingswell-Farr (WAC) 64:16, 1958 Ravinder Saini (PAC) 65:42, 1984 Graham Filmer (PAC) 66:21, 1992 Robert Rawles (WAC) 66:31, 2107 Alan Lewis (PR) 69:01, 2142 Paul Wilsher (PAC) 69:58. 2162 Jason Hall (WAC) 71:13, 2324 Peter Cornes (PAC) 96:32. Team: 93 Poole AC 5968.

Junior men: 76 Dominic Willmore (PR) 36:27, 195 Joseph Mitchell (PR) 41:45.

Under-17 men: 257 Nathaniel Willmore (PR) 24:48, 271 Sam Hughes (WAC) 25:01, 333 Zach Fenwick (WAC) 27:31, 351 Jacob Dunning (PR) 31:13.

Under-15 boys: 128 Ben Martin (WAC) 17:25, 140 Zac Cloete (PAC) 17:29, 182 Seth Lake (WAC) 17:48, 279 Josh Jack (WAC) 18:37, 280 Liam Nixon (PAC) 18:38, 316 William Brodie (PR) 18:54, 322 Charlie Davies (WAC) 19:00, 430 Oliver Rawles (WAC) 20:16, 461 Jacob Small (PR) 21:00. Team: 34 Wimborne AC 911.

Under-13 boys: 1 William Rabjohns (PAC) 10:01, 149 Cameron Corbin (PAC) 13:12, 167 Connor Corbin (PAC) 13:18, 171 George Mahon (PAC) 13:20, 252 Jack Wrann (WAC) 13:45, 336 Oscar Davis (WAC) 14:13, 352 Jago Smith (WAC) 14:19, 527 Thomas Jeffery (WAC) 16:03. Team: 11 Poole AC 488, 51 Wimborne AC 1467.

Senior women: 94 Amy Bond (PAC) 33:13, 267 Harriet Hughes (PAC) 36:56, 426 Clare Snape (PAC) 39:31, 637 Sarah Swift (PR) 42:32, 724 Kirstin Hay (PAC) 44:08, 756 Maddy Vaughan-Johncey (PAC) 44:41, 964 Lesley Davies (WAC) 50:03, 974 Georgia Hill (PAC) 50:38, 1010 Annette Lewis (PR) 52:25, 1099 Laura Horswill (PAC) 61:38.

Junior women: 24 Serena O’Connor (PR) 26:46.

Under-17 women: 7 Grace Copeland (WAC) 19:03, 72 Isabelle Taylor (PAC) 21:11, 171 Lita Short (PR) 22:39, 181 Bethanie Kingswell-Farr (WAC) 23:05, 158 Katia McCrudden (PAC) 22:45, 253 Isabelle Kingswell-Farr (WAC) 26:06, 266 Carla Sheppard (PAC) 27:11.

Under-15 girls: 4 Emily Shaw (WAC) 14:57, 20 Ashia Wilson (PAC) 15:33, 71 Fern Kimber (PR) 16:06, 86 Holly Nixon (WAC) 16:21, 182 Heidi Taylor (PAC) 17:10, 244 Isobel Rabjohns (PAC) 17:42, 272 Demi-Marie Goddard (PAC) 17:55. Team: 28 Poole AC 718.

Under-13 girls: 162 Iris Courtney (WAC) 14:28, 341 Isabella Cox (WAC) 15:49, 374 Susanna Forster (PR) 16:10, 412 Sophia Horwood (PAC) 16:52, 435 Katie Sheppard (PAC) 17:26, 439 Georgina Stokes (PR) 17:44, 454 Millie Small (PR) 18:36.

Key to clubs: PAC – Poole AC, PR – Poole Runners, WAC – Wimborne AC.