Congratulations to Jasmine Wilkins and Etienne Maughan, who both set Senior Women's club records competing in the UK Indoor Championships on 17th February (Results from the UK Athletics Indoor Championships).

• Jasmine's time of 7.62 seconds for the 60m beats the old record by one-hundredth of a second.
• Etienne's time of 8.40 seconds for the 60m hurdles beats the old record by three-hundredths of a second.

Jasmine's 7.62 is also an Under 20 Women's record for the club.

Well done to both!

In addition to Tenny James winning the M65 60m Hurdles at the British Masters Indoor Championships at Lee Valley on Saturday (Tenny Wins British Masters Gold), there were other Bedford athletes in action too over the weekend.

There were victories for:

• Bob Kingman   3.70 metres M50 Pole Vault
• Edith Caux        76.55 meteres W65 400m

Jemma Eastwood also set a new club W45 Pole Vault record of 3.30 metres, but as she was unable to compete in the W45 competition on the Sunday she non scored in the Men's Competition on the Saturday. Her performance was the best W45 performance by about 1 metre, but technically she did not win the W45 PV Championships.

The other Bedford competitors were:

• Steve Bass 4th M50 60m Hurdles  9.92 secs
• Peter Benedickter 4th M50 400m  58.93 secs
• Oriana Johnson 4th W60 Shot 6.80m
• Graeme Packman 4th M65 Shot 8.68m

The UK Athletics Indoor Championships took place in Birminghams on 17th and 18th February.  There were some fine performances from Bedford and County Athletes.  Etienne Maughan finished seventh in the 60m Hurdles final in 8.61 seconds, having qualified in second place in her heat in a new club record of 8.40 seconds.  Jasmine Wilkins made it through to the semi-final of the 60m, where her 7.62 seconds is also a new club record, beating the old record that she shared with Etienne by one hundredth of a second.  In the men's 3000m Jack Goodwin was close to his PB whilst finishing 11th in a time of 8:02.88.

Well done to Etienne, Jasmine and Jack on their fine performances.

Congratulations to Tennyson James, who won the M65 60m Hurdles gold at the British Masters Indoor Championships at the weekend.

There were some excellent results at Battersea's Friday Night Under the Lights 5k road race on 16th February.  Ed Blythman finished tenth in the Elite Men's race in a big new PB of 14:12.47.  Sam Winters came third in race 5 in a time of 14:35, which was just one second off his PB.  Other results included a 15:05 from Alfie Yabsley for 36th place in race 5, a 15:07 from Ben Davies, a 15:12 from Stan Willis, a 15:57 from Dan Galpin, and a 17:54 for Alice Burgin.

There have been a rash of new club records recently.  Congratulations to:

• Etienne Maughan on her Senior Women's record of 8.43 seconds for 60 Metres Hurdles.
• Both Etienne Maughan and Jasmine Wilkins, who now jointly hold the new Senior Women's 60m record of 7.63 seconds.
  • Jasmine's 7.63 seconds is also Under 20 Women's 60m record!
• Jemma Eastwood on her W40 Pole Vault record of 3.26 metres (this is both an Indoor and a main club record).
• Edith Caux who set a W65 200m record of 33.09 seconds and a W65 400m record of 76.41 seconds.

And finally, the Under 17 Women's 60 Metres Hurdles has been corrected to 8.77 seconds - a time that Etienne Maughan ran back in 2020.

Well done to all the record breakers, and their coaches.