10 very nervous U13 club athletes put on Bedfordshire vests for the very first time at the Dereck
Crookes U13 Inter Counties on Sunday 4 th August. They travelled to Walton-on-Thames, Surrey and
came away with 3 PBs. The Bedfordshire girls finished 12 th with 134 points and the boys also finished
12 th with 129 points.
Congratulations to John Eves who has set 2 Masters Club Records. 14:58.25 for the M40 5000m record at Wimbledon on 3rd August and 31:19 for the M40 10000m record at Chelmsford on the 29th June.
The juniors went into the last match of the EYAL 2024 with baited breath. After the June match we
were 13th on equal league points with St Albans, but, 170 match points behind. We needed to finish 3rd
on the day to ensure a 12th place finish and qualification for the Plate Final. The other 3 matches of
July were held on the 21st . Our match was held on the 28th due to Basildon, Havering and us
competing in the YDL on the 21st . We had a fantastic turn out and came away 2nd behind Havering
meaning we qualified for the Plate Final for the first time in 5 years!
Excellent performances from Bedford athletes at the England U15/17 Championships, none
more so than from U15 Hammer thrower Mia Flynn, who bounced back from her English
Schools disappointment to finish 7 th in with a huge PB and new club record of 42.41metres.
Zaphaniah Bryan claimed equal 6 th place with 1.87 metres in the U17 High jump and 14 th in
the Triple Jump with 12.35 Metres.
Lois Fordham was 9 th in the U15 Girls Pole Vault clearing 2.71 metres, whilst Archie
Ashpole set a new personal best of 6.42 metres to finish 10 th in the U17 Long Jump.
Congratulations to Mia Flynn who has set a new U15 Hammer club record of 42.41m at the England U15 Championships in Birmingham on 26th July.
Congratulations to Jasmine Wilkins and Etienne Maughan who each claimed a
silver medal in the England U20 and U23 Championships held at Birmingham
on the weekend of 20/21 July.
Running in the 100m on Saturday, Jasmine comfortably won her heat in 11.82
seconds (w – 1.6) and finished second in the final with 11.94 seconds battling
against a -2.8 wind. On Sunday, she finished 5 th in the final of the 200m in a
time of 23.99 seconds, which also constituted a personal best and a club record.
Jasmine has been called up as part of the relay squad for the GB team for the
World U20 Championships to be held in Peru in August.
Not to be outdone, Etienne, recovering from injury, gained Bedford’s second
silver of the weekend placing second in the U23 100m Hurdles in a time of
13.64 seconds, just a tenth outside her personal best.
The Club’s U13s and U15s travelled with a small team, due to it being the first weekend of the
summer holidays, to Windsor for the last YDL match of the season. The athletes produced 29 PBs
and 2 SBs. The boys came away with 10 PBs and 2 SBs. The girls 19 PBs.
We finished 5th.
