RACE SUPPORT: Triathlon sponsor Alasdair MacConachie, left, of Sherwoods, with Stuart Clark, from the Rotary Club, Gill McGowan, of Blackett, Hart and Pratt, and nurse Pauline Lytton, from Woodlands Hospital
ORGANISERS of a sporting event on
Sunday hope to raise £4,000 for charity.
The Quaker Triathlon, organised by
Darlington Rotary Club, will raise
money for water supplies in two of the
poorest countries of West Africa and
equipment for Darlington Memorial Hospital.
The event, in its third year, will be contested
by 150 athletes, and will raise
funds to help villages in Togo and Benin,
and to support the surgical department
at Darlington Memorial Hospital.
Rotary Club member Keith Gunning,
a surgeon, said: "It attracts the top triathletes
in the country, and the leading contenders
expect to complete the event in
under one hour."
The event will begin with a 400-metre
swim in Branksome School pool, followed
by a 16-mile cycle race involving
two laps of a route from the school to
Walworth Castle and back, then a threemile
return run from the school to the
top of the hill in West Park.
Sponsors are Woodlands Hospital,
Northumbrian Water, Sherwoods motor
dealership and Blackett, Hart and Pratt
solicitors.
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■ Some roads in the town will be closed
to traffic from 7.30am to about 1.30pm.
They are Sherborne Close, Atherstone
Way, Woburn Avenue, Malvern Crescent
(from its junction with Sherborne Close
to its junction with Jedburgh Drive), Jedburgh
Drive, Marrick Avenue, Tintern
Avenue, Ellerton Close, Hexham Way,
Wimborne Close, Newton Lane (from
Jedburgh Drive to Walworth), Walworth
Road (from Walworth to Walworth Gate),
Back Lane (from Walworth Gate to Newton
Lane).
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