Thaila-Jade Mason took a second South of England Championship gold when she added the U17 Long Jump title to the Heptathlon U17 title she had won a fortnight earlier. Competing at Lee Valley on Sunday 13 August, three of her four valid jumps (5.73m;5.68m and 5.57m) were comfortably ahead of the silver medalist who jumped 5.30m.
Representing England, Jack Goodwin finished 5th in the Home Nations 5k in Cardiff on 12th August, running a road PB of 13.59, and helping England to win the event. In the Women's elite 5k race, Rebecca Murray finished 13th in 16:21.
Ben Alcock, 13:56.89 (PB)
Ben Davies, 3:46.87
Same Knee-Robinson, 3:54.52
Tia Wilson, 4:20.14 (PB)
There were some excellent results at the Watford Open Graded Meeting on Wednesday 9th August:
Congratulations to Glen Kerr, who set a new club M45 Hammer record of 53.47 metres in the NAL match at Bournemouth on Saturday 5th August.
With the sun shining on Sunday at Bedford stadium, it was far less a soggy day than our last fixture! This was our final EYAL fixture of the 2023 season. Bedford and County AC finished 3rd overall on the day and all of the boys teams all came 3rd individually with the under 13’s scoring 69, under 15 scoring 68 and under 17’s scoring 57 points.
Our final EYAL league match saw 33 girls compete in warm, windy conditions on our home track. We had the best results of the season with 26 PBs, 3 SBs, 15 A string wins, 7 B string wins and 2 relay wins.
Our A String wins were:
There were great results From Tia Wilson and Ben Alcock at the Hercules Wimbledon 5000 Metre Night on Saturday 5th August.
Tia (U23) smashed her PB with a time of 16:04.72. This will put her in this year's UK top 40 for the event, and in the top 5 for the Under 23 category.
Ben got very close to his PB, with an impressive run of 14:05.92 to finish third in the fastest race.
