Many of our athletes travelled to Aldershot on Saturday 20th September to take part in the SEAA Road Relays, and produced some outstanding individual and team performances.

Well done to everyone who ran. Bedford & County results:

Glen Kerr continued his renaissance as a Masters athlete with a throw of 57.23m to win the M50 Hammer at the British Masters on Sunday. In 1991 as an intermediate boy, he won gold at the English Schools Championship, following it with another gold at the Schools International a week later. As a Senior Man he represented Scotland and set the current Club Record of 65.53m. 

Congratulations to the twenty Bedford & County athletes who represented Bedfordshire at the SEAA Inter Counties Championships at a very wet and windy Horspath Stadium on 13/14 September.

Ten athletes achieved top three places:

Mia Flynn smashed her own club U15 Hammer record for the sixth time this year and moved to the top of the UK rankings with a massive throw of 51.48m to win the SEAA Inter Counties Championship at Horspath last Sunday.
 
Mia who had a best last year of 44.67m, has made dramatic progress this year not only in terms of distance but also in terms of championship placings with a pair of silver medals from the England Championships and English Schools Championships together with gold from the SEAA and now the SEAA Inter-counties. A due reward for all the hard work she has done with her coach, Darren Kerr.
 

Bedford & County’s Junior athletes took part in the EYAL Plate Final on Sunday 7th September at Thurrock. We went into the match 3rd on paper.  After an amazing set of performances we finished 2nd overall. Our U13 & U15 girls won their age groups. U17W were 6th, U13B 3rd, U15B 2nd and U17M 5th.

Match results:

1st  Thurrock 623

2nd Bedford 565

3rd Herts Phoenix 544

4th Ipswich 528

5th Cambridge 503

6th Cobra 488

Bedford Masters Men and Women made the journey to Thurrock on Saturday to contest the Eastern Masters League Final. The Women’s team having qualified for the first time in 20 years, a terrific result for a very small team.

The match started with the pole vault for both men and women and resulted in the Bedford competitors Bob Kingman, Simon Eastwood, Richard Phelan and Gemma Eastwood all winning their events, setting the team up for the rest of the day.

From that great start the Men’s Team was never headed with sterling support from all athletes. Everyone competed in multiple events, some covering events that they had not tried for many years, but there were still a few unfilled places due to holidays, work and injuries.

The Women’s team competed well but shortage of numbers meant they were always going to struggle.

Special mention must be made to Bob Kingman who was awarded the Men’s Field Best Performance Trophy for his 3.8m pole vault.

 

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