Bolles Alumnus Charles Hicks Leads U20 Britain Team to Gold


Charles Hicks lead the U20 Britain team to a gold team title with his individual fifth place finish at the European Cross Country Championships.


Hicks made his British debut this morning in style in Libson, running a time of 19:05 for the 6.3km distance. 


The recent Bolles graduate and multi-time Florida state champion, redshirted his freshman cross country season for Stanford and instead pursued the European Cross Country scene in the mean time. 

His 19:05 performance not only led the Great Britain team, but was just four places behind Olympian, Jakob Ingerbritsen, who ran a time of 18:20 to win. 

Here was Hick's splits prior to the finish. 
IntermediateRankTimeTime behind leader
1625m84:59+0:01
3125m49:31+0:02
4625m414:05+0:12

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