Oriana Johnson extended her W60 hammer record on a cold evening at the EMAC opener. Her third-round throw flew out to 21.43m with the 3kg implement which marks an improvement of more than four metres on her 2025 best, underlining a significant step forward early in the season.

With the advent of the new Age Groups from 1^st April 2026, it will be necessary to revisit club records for the new age groups.

Records will be held in U14/U16/U18/U20, Club and Masters categories, whilst existing records in the U13/U15/U17 and U20 categories will be archived and preserved for posterity.

The Records Group has been working to transfer past performances into the new age groups for record purposes, but this will take some time and depends on how soon Power of Ten publishes past performances into all-time rankings in new age groups. The group will use PoT as well as a number of other sources of information.

Where there are new events or radically changed events, the group will put mechanisms in place to establish the new records.

Dennis Johnson

April 2026

A mix of new and seasoned junior athletes made the journey to Basildon for the first EYAL match of the season. This was the first league match where the new age groups were used. Apart from a few issues with the organisation of the match and finishing 1hour 15 minutes late everybody thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We came away with a total of 105 PBs, 60 for the girls and 45 for the boys. Match 1's score currently leaves us 5^th in the league.

4 of the endurance runners travelled across to Bury St Edmunds for the Steeplechase Festival.

Archie was 2nd place in the U18 2000m steeplechase.
Henry was 3rd place in his debut 1500m steeplechase.
Fraser won the mile with Oliver coming in at 3rd place.

All 4 results putting the boys in the top ten of the UK rankings for their event.

Mia Flynn threw a huge PB in the U16 Hammer at the Peterborough open today of 54.09m, increasing her club record and moving her to No1 in the UK. Well done Mia!