Category: Sport

The Leicestershire & Rutland Golf Union and Kibworth Golf Club are celebrating a historic triumph after being crowned English Men’s County Champions for the first time in the competition’s 99-year history.

2025 has again marked a year of remarkable achievements for the Kibworth Cricket Club, both on and off the field.

Our season of outdoor bowls, which started in April, has gone really well this year with many enjoyable games, partly due to this glorious weather we have had.

Your local table tennis club; (all welcome – your first session free); has found a temporary home in the main hall at Kibworth Mead Academy because Fleckney Sports Centre is shortly(?) to be demolished and a fancy new building, with three times the space for table tennis, will, in due course, take its place. Our youngest player is eight and the oldest 76. We accommodate absolute beginners coaching them up to League level if they wish. From Wednesday 3 September, coaching, practice and League matches will all be held on Wednesday nights. Beginners are at 7pm and improvers at 7.45pm. Coaching continues until 8.30pm and free play till 10pm.

In July and August of this season, the Illston Abey Cricket Club hosted a South Asian local community Twenty20 Cup tournament. England coach and Leicestershire star Tim Boon, as well as ECB representative, Shilly Pancholi, attended the final to present the Super Trophy to the Kandy Kings Cricket Club on a glorious summer’s day.

I’m not going to tell you about Leicester Hockey Club (based at Great Glen). I am leaving that to some of the parents of our junior players to tell you their thoughts on their children’s experience at the club.

This has been an extremely busy and successful month for the running club.

Free Open Evening on Monday 2 June 2

At 100 years young, Bob Loughran still enjoys practicing on the driving range and a few holes of golf with his friend Frank. A member of KGC since 2012, known for his easy swing and even easier charm, Bob is the oldest active member of the club, still enjoying six holes usually twice a week, weather permitting.

It’s been a busy few weeks for Fleckney & Kibworth Running Club as we enter spring, with a variety of races to report. The Leicestershire Road Running League (LRRL) races are now underway with the 1st Race being our local Kibworth 6. We’ve had several of our runners competing in a whole host of different races already this year, achieving some fantastic results along the way. Well done team F&K, and great motivation for the rest of the year.