Sheen pull off a golden double - Local Sport

Sponsored by

Sheen pull off a golden double

Sheen tug of war club, pictured with Dame Mary Peters at the UK indoor championships in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photo contributed.

Published on 17/02/2013 11:00

Sheen were flying the flag for England again at the UK indoor tug of war championships held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, recently.

Representing England in the 600 kilo weight class, Sheen got off to a good start by defeating their main challengers Northern Ireland A early in the competition. England went through the remainder of the competition unbeaten to finish in the top-four.

In the semi-finals, they quickly dispatched Northern Ireland B, before setting up a re-match with Northern Ireland A in the final, who defeated last year’s world 600 kilo champions Scotland A.

Sheen eventually took the gold medal in convincing fashion, winning 2-0.

A number of Sheen’s men were then involved for England in the 680 kilos competition for the England B team. Again, this team was a force to be reckoned with, and they went through the group stages without losing an end.

They defeated England A in the semi-finals, and comfortably eased past Northern Ireland A again in the final to give England their second gold medal of the UK championship.

Following the international event, the UK open club competition took place, with teams from the UK countries also being joined by teams from the Republic of Ireland.

Competing in the 640 kilos competition, Sheen advanced from the ten-team group stage, before running out 2-0 winners over Mountain View from Ireland in the final.

This result means that, over the course of the indoor season, Sheen have won a gold medal in every competition they have competed in.

Following the completion of the event, the teams were presented with their gold medals by Dame Mary Peters, an Olympic gold medallist in 1972 and ambassador to the London 2012 Games.

With the indoor tug of war season now completed, teams will be turning their attention to the outdoor tug of war season.

Anyone interested in getting involved in the sport should visit the Tug of War Association website at www.tugofwar.co.uk for further information.

Sport

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Sponsored by
Sheen pull off a golden double

Top stories

Sport