{"id":4835,"date":"2019-11-14T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/?p=4835"},"modified":"2019-11-20T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:25:06","slug":"no-rain-no-gain-chloe-sharp-achieves-top-20-finish-in-british-cross-country-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/no-rain-no-gain-chloe-sharp-achieves-top-20-finish-in-british-cross-country-series\/","title":{"rendered":"No Rain No Gain! &#8211; Chloe Sharp achieves top 20 finish in British Cross Country Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Kent sports scholar Chloe Sharp competed in a British Cross Challenge series race in Milton Keynes on 9 November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In the senior women&#8217;s race over a distance of 5.6km Chloe finished a very respectable 19th with a time of 21:29 minutes. Chloe was one of the youngest athletes in the field having just moved up an age group for this season and was racing against senior athletes who have represented both England and Great Britain for cross country.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the photo, we think you&#8217;ll agree that the traditional English weather doesn&#8217;t stop our scholars from competing hard against the best in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the Kent Sport\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sports\/scholarships\">scholarship programme<\/a> and for more information about Chloe see her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sports\/scholarships\/scholarprofiles\/athletics\/chloesharp.html\">profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4840\" style=\"width: 163px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2019\/11\/Chloe-Sharp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4840 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2019\/11\/Chloe-Sharp-163x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2019\/11\/Chloe-Sharp-163x300.png 163w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2019\/11\/Chloe-Sharp-555x1024.png 555w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/files\/2019\/11\/Chloe-Sharp.png 694w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mud, Sweat and Tears \u2013 Chloe meets the elements. Photo Credit: Barry Cornelius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Kent sports scholar Chloe Sharp competed in a British Cross Challenge series race in Milton Keynes on 9 November 2019. In the senior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/no-rain-no-gain-chloe-sharp-achieves-top-20-finish-in-british-cross-country-series\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5725,"featured_media":4839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,14587],"tags":[212541,212540,212542,212543],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}