Leicester Coritanian Athletics Club is an athletics club based in Leicester,

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. It is based at the

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. The club competes at all levels in senior and junior road racing, cross country, and track and field. The name is derived from the Celtic tribe the

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who inhabited Leicester and the surrounding area in the Iron Age. The club was founded in 1969.

External links

Official website

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