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.
Tenny James reached the podium twice at the European Masters Indoor Athletics Championships held recently in Torun, Poland.
Competing in the M65 age category, he claimed silver in the 60m hurdles in a time of 10.01. He then took the gold as part of the winning GB 4x200m relay team. Their performance of 1.47.67 set a new European record for this event.
Tenny also made the final of the 400m with a seasons best of 62.5 and the semi final of the 200m in 27.9.
On a bitterly cold and blustery day Oriana Johnson and Mia Flynn both managed to set club hammer records - Oriana adding nearly a metre to her very recently set W60 hammer record with her throw of 19.41m, and Mia adding over 10 metres to the club U17 hammer record with a throw of 50.97m, just short of her club U15 record with that weight hammer set on a much warmer day last year.
Well done both!
