Oriana Johnson extended her W60 hammer record on a cold evening at the EMAC opener. Her third-round throw flew out to 21.43m with the 3kg implement which marks an improvement of more than four metres on her 2025 best, underlining a significant step forward early in the season.
With the advent of the new Age Groups from 1st April 2026, it will be necessary to revisit club records for the new age groups.
Records will be held in U14/U16/U18/U20, Club and Masters categories, whilst existing records in the U13/U15/U17 and U20 categories will be archived and preserved for posterity.
The Records Group has been working to transfer past performances into the new age groups for record purposes, but this will take some time and depends on how soon Power of Ten publishes past performances into all-time rankings in new age groups. The group will use PoT as well as a number of other sources of information.
Where there are new events or radically changed events, the group will put mechanisms in place to establish the new records.
Dennis Johnson
April 2026
A mix of new and seasoned junior athletes made the journey to Basildon for the first EYAL match of the season. This was the first league match where the new age groups were used. Apart from a few issues with the organisation of the match and finishing 1hour 15 minutes late everybody thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We came away with a total of 105 PBs, 60 for the girls and 45 for the boys. Match 1's score currently leaves us 5th in the league.
4 of the endurance runners travelled across to Bury St Edmunds for the Steeplechase Festival.
Archie was 2nd place in the U18 2000m steeplechase.
Henry was 3rd place in his debut 1500m steeplechase.
Fraser won the mile with Oliver coming in at 3rd place.
All 4 results putting the boys in the top ten of the UK rankings for their event.
Mia Flynn threw a huge PB in the U16 Hammer at the Peterborough open today of 54.09m, increasing her club record and moving her to No1 in the UK. Well done Mia!
Well done to all our runners who completed the London Marathon last week, on a record-breaking day. It was great to see Bedford & County athletes out in force, with several impressive performances across the field.
Results:
Bedford Wheelchair Racing, a section of Bedford and County Athletic Club, has been selected to take part in a Tesco In-store Vote. When customers make any transaction in any one of the stores in the Bedford area – Super stores, Extra and Express – they will be given a token which they can cast for Bedford Wheelchair Racing. Voting will commence in the stores on Tuesday 28th April and close at the end of July.
Well done to our junior athletes who took part in the London Mini Marathon Championship race yesterday. A brilliant event running the final 2.62k of the London marathon course.
Bedford & County hammer throwers were out in force at the Dickenson Classic Memorial Hammer competition in Windsor on Saturday 11th April, honouring former hammer thrower and BBC commentator Paul Dickenson.
Mia returned to form in style, throwing back over 50m to win the U16 girls’ event and take home an impressive haul of prizes.
Darren experienced a mixed competition but saved his best for last, digging deep in the final round to produce a new personal best and club M55 record, launching the 6kg hammer to 49.07m.
Glen delivered a solid series just shy of 56m, but one of the standout moments of the day came away from the circle. The team caught up with Hungarian Olympic champion Krisztián Pars. Glen and Pars previously competed together back in 2003 while Glen was on international duty for Scotland in Slovenia. Remarkably, Glen still has the original scorecard from that event - a piece of history featuring three Olympic champions: Pars (2012), Adrián Annus, and Primož Kozmus.
Picture of Glen, Krisztian, Darren and Mia.
Well done to everyone that ran in the 1500m county championships at the weekend as part of the Bedfordshire AAA open meeting. There were some outstanding performances with lots of podium finishes for Bedford & County athletes.
A great start to the season for our middle distance runners.
Bedford & County AC and GLL hosted dignitaries and guests, including the Mayor of Bedford Borough Council, Tom Wootton, and CEO of England Athletics, Chris Jones, to a reception and ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the refurbished stadium ahead of the Bedfordshire AAA Open meeting on Saturday 4 April.
