Congratulations to Etienne Maughan and Lyla Danobrega, who both set new club records at the English Schools Championships at the weekend. Etienne's 13.98 seconds is a new club Senior Women's and Under 20 Women's record for 100m Hurdles. Lyla's 5:06.16 is a new club Senior Women's and Under 20 Women's record for 1500m Steeplechase.
The funeral of Jenny O’Shea will take place at Bedford Chapel, Norse Road on Thursday 13th July at 13.45, followed by a wake at the Knife and Cleaver, Houghton Conquest. Those wishing to attend the service or service and wake should indicate which by contacting
Those wishing to make donations to the Alzheimer’s Society in the name of Jenny should do so using http://www.abbott-funerals.co.uk/
Congratulations to Bob Kingman and to Lois Fordham who have both broken club records recently. At the recent NAL match, Bob Kingman improved his own Pole Vault record to 3.80m; whilst Lois Fordham set new figures for the U13 Pole Vault by clearing 2.12m at the Biggleswade Jumps Fest on 21st June. The previous holder was Gracie Wall who did 2.01m in 2018.
Jenny O’Shea, who has passed away after a long illness, will have been known by many members of Bedford and County AC. She was an outstanding sprints coach, a regular timekeeper at many of our meetings and was for many years Championships Secretary and organiser of the Bedfordshire AAA Championships. Those wishing to attend her funeral should contact Dennis Johnson (
Congratulations to Gracie Wall, who won the Women's Under 20 High Jump gold medal at the England Athletics Championships in Chelmsford on Sunday. Gracie's winning jump of 1.78 metres is a personal best, and puts her into third place in this year's UK Under 20 rankings. As a result Gracie has achieved the qualification standard for the British Championships and will receive an automatic invite to compete on the 9th July in Manchester.
Our fellow athlete Graham Ayre has recently passed away. His funeral is at Bedford Crematorium on Friday 23rd June at 12.15.
He is remembered by Howard Darbon.
Congratulations to Etienne Maughan who broke the club's Under 20 Women's 100m Hurdles record in the NAL match at the weekend. Etienne's new record is 14.25 seconds. Congratulations also to Glen Kerr, who broke his own M45 Hammer club record with a throw of 52.22 metres at the SEAA Championships on 4th June.
Ben Davies produced a 3:44.22 1500m personal best in the BMC Gold Standard race at Watford last night, finishing second to Olympian, Elliot Giles. Congratulations to Ben on a fantastic performance, which may have been the second fastest 1500m ever by a Bedford and County member.
We got off to a great start to the National Athletics League (NAL) season, with a second-place finish in our home match yesterday (Sunday 11th June). Competing against Belgrave Harriers, Bristol and West, Cardiff, The City of Liverpool, The City of Portsmouth, Herts Phoenix and Herne Hill Harriers, Bedford and County came second overall, coming second in the men's match (by only 3 points), and finishing third in the Women's Match.
Congratulations to Raph Bouju who set a new club Senior Men's 100m record of 10.02 seconds whilst running at the EAP meeting in Geneva at the weekend. Raph is getting very close to breaking the 10.00 second barrier. Although Raph is now running in Holland, and his performances are not on the Power of Ten, 10.02 would put him twelfth on the UK all-time list.
Congratulations to Tennyson James who set a new club M65 record for 100m Hurdles at the Eastern Masters league match at Cambridge on 7th June. The new mark is 17.4 seconds.
Congratulations to Bob Kingman who broke Tony Mackay’s 33 year old M50 Pole Vault club record with a vault of 3.70m in the SAL match at Braintree on 20th May.
