Four Bedford & County AC athletes travelled to Cambridge to compete in the Cambridgeshire County Championships and all came away with medals.
Martha - javelin – 3rd 24.28m
Tilly – triple jump 2nd 10.74m
Eva – triple jump 1st 10.58m, long jump – 3rd 4.74m
Louis – Javelin – 1st 43.20m
The Club’s athletes had an amazing weekend at the Bedfordshire County Track & Field Championships last weekend winning a total of 77 medals.
Performance of the day must go to Emily who not only set a new U13G Javelin Club record, but also a new Championship Best Performance of 33.72m, bettering the Club record by 2.22m and the CBP by 6.64m.
The U13s won 9 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze, U15s 10 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze, U17s 10 golds, 9 silvers and 6 bronze and U20/Seniors 11 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze.
The club won all top 3 places in the following events:
There were a lot of excellent performances at the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire County Championships at Woodside Stadium, Watford on 11th and 12th May. Congratulations to the following, who set County Best Performances:
(and also a special note that a little further north Richard Martin became Yorkshire County Hammer Champion for the eleventh year in a row)
Congratulations to Etienne Maughan, who won the British Universities 100m Hurdles title last weekend, and in the process broke her own Senior Women's club record. Etienne's new record is 13.59 seconds. This was set in her heat, and she followed it with a 13.62 in the final to become the British Universities Champion. Etienne currently sits in fourth position in this year's UK Senior Women's 100m Hurdles rankings, and is top of the Under 23 rankings.
Ben Davies - 3rd - 3:53.21
Jamie Webster - 5th - 3:56.11
Jake Reynolds - 9:38.88 (PB)
There were some encouraging Bedford and County performances at both Birmingham and Battersea at the weekend.
In Birmingham on Saturday 27th April, Tia Wilson's 8:57.14 3000m performance was a 30 second PB, and, when the results hit the Power of Ten website, it should put her in this year's Senior Women's top ten for the distance. At the same meeting Sam Knee-Robinson ran a 8:32.15 3000m and Harry Brodie a 8:33.72 3000m
In the Battersea Comeback 5000m (track) race on Friday 26th April, Ed Blythman finished 17th in the Elite Men's race in 14:12.28, and Noah Campion was not far behind in 20th place with a 14:15.13 clocking. Ed's time is a new PB. As well as being a new PB, Noah's time should put him in 5th place in the UK Under 20 rankings when the results hit the Power of 10 website.
We had an amazing opening YDL match at Bedford. 26 girls again gave their everything in cold an windy conditions.
Match results were:
1st Bedford 542 points
2nd Bracknell 502 points
3rd Windsor 486 points
4th Wycombe 415.5 points
5th Oxford 363 points
6th Aylesbury 322 points
7th Chiltern 287.5 points
