At the English Schools Centenary Championships where the athletes paraded through a guard of honour of over one hundred former champions, Bedford & County athletes achieved four medals, claimed six top eight places and set nine lifetime bests.
The silver star was Mia Flynn, whilst Lois Fordham, Zaphaniah Bryan and Thaila-Jade Mason all won bronze medals.
Mia, the South of England Champion, threw a superb 47.42m adding 1.54m to her previous best, to claim the silver medal by a mere 5 cm with her very last throw in the Junior Girls Hammer.
Lois Fordham enjoyed a superb competition in the Junior Girls Pole Vault, clearing every height at the first time of asking, taking her personal best from 3.00m to 3.20m to secure the bronze.
Bedfordshire’s team captain Zaphaniah Bryan cleared 2.01m in the Senior Boys High Jump– an improvement of 6 cm on his previous best – for the bronze medal and only a narrow failure at 2.04m denied him the chance of silver.
Thaila- Jade Mason added a bronze medal for Buckinghamshire in the Senior Girls Long Jump with 5.69m to help them win the Senior Girls Trophy for B Group counties.
Emily Elphick took sixth place in the Junior Girls Javelin and Archie Henderson eighth place in the Inter Boys steeplechase; whilst sprinters Sophia Wing (JG 300m) Ria Webb (Inter Girls 200m) set personal bests along with the middle distance quartet of Archie Henderson (Inter Boys steeplechase), Harry Henderson and Ethan Gibbs (both Junior Boys 800m) and Fraser Williams (Junior Boys 1500m), who ran a pb of 4m 16.09 sec in his heat and then almost beat it again with 4m 16.16sec for 9th place in the final.
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