Some of our athletes were in action at the England Athletics U15/U17 Championships this weekend:
Mia - 2nd English athlete Hammer
Archie - 6th English athlete 1500m S/C
Oliver - 7th English athlete 3000m
Fraser - 8th English athlete 1500m
Katy - 7th in her heat in the 100m
Well done to everyone who has competed over the last few days, and good luck to those competing tomorrow.
Bedford’s youngest athletes 4th EYAL match took place at home. We scored 610 points – finishing 3rd behind Havering and Stevenage. We came away with 1 new Club Record set by Chloe K in the U17 W Pole Vault at 3.10m, 53 PBs (boys 22, girls 31) and 4 SBs for the girls. This result consolidated our 10th position in the league. Finishing in 10th means we have qualified for the Plate Final on 07th September in Thurrock.
Congratulations to Chloe Kingman who has set a new U17 pole vault club record of 3.10m at the EYAL today.
Congratulations to Andy Blair who ran 19:06 in the Doug Anderson 5k on Wednesday, setting a new M60 5km Club record.
Bedford & County were well represented across all age groups and events at the Eastern Counties Championships at Cambridge on 19th July and came away with a large haul of medals.
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.
There were some exceptional performances from Bedford & County athletes at the BMC Grand Prix yesterday, at a very hot and sunny Watford.
Congratulations to Sam Winters who set a new club record of 1:49.93 in the 800, finishing second in his race with a perfectly judged effort, after passing the bell in 54.2. This breaks his own club record, and takes the figures under the magic 1:50 barrier for the first time.
Elsewhere, Ed Blythman ran a pb in the 1500, with a very creditable 3:48.09, and there were seasons bests for Alfie Yabsley in the 800 (1:55.03), and for Sam Knee-Robinson (3:52.85) and Lauren Nichols (4:40.59) in the 1500.
Congratulations to Helen Buller who has set a new W45 3000m record of 11:22:7, a minute faster than the previous record that has stood for 25 years.
Some of our Bedford & County athletes ran in the Newport Pagnell 5K today.
Jamie Prior 4th 16:06
Mark Allen 16th 16:59
Oliver Coombes 19th 17:11
Thomas Harper 24th 17:18
Adam Harris 28th 17:26
Sean Crawley 52nd 18:10
Ellie Harper 62nd 18:39
Simon Harper 74th 19:18
Rosie Cusack 133rd 21:48
Eliza Gibbs 175th 23:25
Well done to everyone that ran.
Bedfordshire Team Captains: Lyla Danobrega and Zaphaniah Bryan
JG 300m Sophia Wing
JG PV Lois Fordham
JG Javelin Emily Elphick
JG Ham. Mia Flynn
Three Bedford & County athletes competed at the Regional Schools Combined Championships in exhausting conditions of extreme heat last weekend.
Now competing for Buckinghamshire Schools, Thaila-Jade Mason scored a decisive win by nearly 400 points in the Senior Girls Heptathlon at Abingdon .Her standout event was the 200m where she ran 25.2 seconds aided by a wind of 4.6mps, although to be fair the wind was in her face around the bend. She set a person best of 8.04m with the 4Kg shot whilst her overall total of 4434 points was also a personal best as it was her first U20 Heptathlon with a 4 kg shot and 600gm Javelin.
Meanwhile Lois Fordham and Emily Elphick were competing for Bedfordshire in the Junior Girls Pentathlon at the East Anglian Regional Finals at Corby.
Lois in only her third pentathlon finished a very creditable 10th with a score of 2142points- a massive increase on her previous best of 1875 points, having improved her hurdles by a second to 13.6 sec, her long jump to 4.50m and equaled her best of 1.40m in the high jump. Emily finished in an equally creditable 12th place in her first ever pentathlon scoring a promising 2069 points. She equaled her best of 13.5 sec in the hurdles and set a lifetime best of 1.46m in the high jump.
Congratulations to Ellie who was 3rd female finisher at the RunThrough 5k in Battersea Park on Wednesday 25th June in a time of 19:15.
