Bedford and County AC - News Archive

Club record for Lois

Congratulations to Lois Fordham who has set a new U15 girls pole vault club record with her jump of 3.00m at the EYAL at the weekend.

Last Saturday, at the Bedfordshire AAA open meeting, Glen Kerr threw 55.39 metres in the Hammer competition. This is not only an M50 club record, but also places Glen 11^th on the UK all time list for Men's 50 hammer.

Congratulations Glen!

Bedfordshire AAA Open Meeting and 1500m County Championships

It was the Bedfordshire AAA Open Meeting today at Bedford, which included the Bedfordshire county championship 1500m races.

Our middle distance runners ran extremely well, coming away with a huge number of medals.

Congratulations to everyone that competed.

Results

Tenny adds Gold to his World Championships medal tally

Tenny has won another medal at the World Masters Indoor Championships in Gainesville in Florida, taking his medal haul up to a total of 3.

He has won a gold medal as part of the M65 4x200m relay team to add to the 2 silvers he had already won earlier in the championships.

He is now taking a well-deserved week off in Miami!

Congratulations Tenny!

Image from the medal ceremony for the M65 60m hurdles, where Tenny won the silver medal.

Pole Vault Club Records

Bedford & County held an indoor pole vault competition yesterday and there were some great results for the Bedford athletes, including:

Bob Kingman 3.92m - M50 club record

Lois Fordham 2.92m - PB and U15 girls club record

Oskar Eastwood 2.72m - PB

Well done to everyone who competed!

World Masters Indoor Championships in Florida

Over the last week it has been the World Masters Indoor Championships at Gainsville in Florida.

Bedford & County athlete Tenny James travelled to Florida to compete and won 2 Silver medals.

SEAA 6/12 stage road relays

Well done to everyone who ran in the SEAA road relays and U15/U17 5k championships in Milton Keynes yesterday.

Bedford & County had a successful day with team gold in the U17 Men 5k championships and bronze for our Senior Women A team in the 6 stage relay.

There were some outstanding individual performances, including Rebecca Murray as the fastest 2nd leg runner for the Senior Women, 3rd place for Mackenzie Kotrys in the U17 Men 5k and 1st place for Ethan Gibbs in the U13 boys 3k.

Full Bedford & County Results:

PANVAC Opens at Peterborough

British Masters Athletics Federation's Winter Throws Championships

It was the British Masters Athletics Federation's (BMAF) Winter Throws Championships at the weekend at Horspath Track, Oxford.

Four of Bedford's Masters Athletes competed and came back with a hatful of medals and club records.

Results:

Glen Kerr M50

Hammer - Gold - 53.80m - Club Record

Weight -Gold - 17.94m - Club Best Performance

Shot -2nd - 11.81m

Darren Kerr M55

Hammer - Gold - 47.19m - Club Record

Weight - Gold - 15.65m - Club Best Performance

Discus - Bronze - 33.53m

Oriana Johnson W60

Discus - Silver - 15.50m

Hammer - 9th - 16.05m

More Bedford & County success at the Eastern Indoor Championships

In addition to the success of the pole vaulters at last weekends’ Eastern Counties Indoor Championships at Lee Valley the club came away with a further 7 Medals.

U20s

Thalia–Jade Mason - High Jump 1^st 1.55, 60mH 2^nd 9.14

Eva Henry - Long Jump 3^rd 5.00, Triple Jump 3^rd 10.61 PB

Casey-Mae Chandler - Triple Jump 4^th 9.98 PB

Archie Ashpole - Long Jump 2^nd 6.23

Raphie Saunders - Triple Jump 3rd 11.50 PB, 200m 18th 25.26

Thomas Leakey - 60m H 8^th 7.12 PB, SF 9^th 7.11 PB

Bedford & County athletes at the Tokyo Marathon

Congratulations to all the Bedford & County athletes who ran in the Tokyo Marathon yesterday.

Adam Harris, achieved the 6 star Abbot World Marathon Majors award yesterday, by completing the Tokyo Marathon in a chip time of 2hrs 56mins 46sec (gun time 2hrs 57mins 11sec). He has achieved the 6 Star award by running the required marathons in: Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York.