Skip navigation

The 2008 Medway Mile

Medway residents young and old proved just how fit they are at the 2008 Medway Mile.

Runners turned out in their hundreds to get active at this year’s event, titled Medway Mile: Medway Gets Active.

The packed day of sporting fun, sponsored by Medway Primary Care Trust, marked four years until the start of London 2012 and gave families the chance to try their hands at a number of sports and activities including:

  • judo,

  • ice hockey,

  • tennis,

  • army assault course,

  • inflatable human table football,

  • inflatable beach volleyball,

  • hula-hooping,

  • spacehoppers,

  • swingball,

  • table tennis,

  • hockey,

  • fitness training,

  • short tennis,

  • trampolining,

  • swimming,

  • scuba diving,

  • athletics,

  • football,

  • touch rugby.

Photo of a young boy having a go at the army assault course at the Medway Mile

Photo of a young girl having a go at the hockey session organised by Holcombe Hockey Club

A number of sporting demonstrations, including a martial arts display, a power wheelchair football display and a fencing bout, featuring GB fencers Peter Barwell and Alex Makucewicz, entertained the crowds and highlighted the calibre of sport in Medway.

This theme was continued as some of the county’s best runners battled it out for top honours over the one-mile course. Medway and Maidstone Athletics Club organised five competitions that spanned two elite races.

Photo of Ivy Rushforth, on her bike, doing the Medway Mile with her family.

It was then the residents of Medway who took to the roads to compete against their friends, their families and their own personal goals over the same course. The 920 registered runners all received a Medway Mile t-shirt, sponsored by Total Floor Systems.

Among the finishers was Ivy Rushforth (pictured left) who was celebrating her third birthday by running the mile with her family.

Thanks must go to the sponsors:

and all the sports clubs and volunteers who attended and helped to make the day possible.

We hope to see you for the 2009 Medway Mile, when we will celebrate three years until the 2012 Olympics.


Back to July 2008 news