We had great success in the U14G Discus at the Bedfordshire County Championships, held on the 9th and 10th May. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place were all from Beds and County, well done to Olive, Layla and Malia for their outstanding performances. 

Olive also won the shot and javelin, taking her gold medal total up to 3, after her huge 4m PB for discus of 24.46m.

Congratulations to Andrew Leach, who ran the 1500m in 4 min 56.0 to set a new M60 record last week at the EMAC Track & Field League Match 1 at Milton Keynes. 

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! 

Well done to all our runners who completed the London Marathon last week, on a record-breaking day. It was great to see Bedford & County athletes out in force, with several impressive performances across the field.

Results:

Bedford Wheelchair Racing, a section of Bedford and County Athletic Club, has been selected to take part in a Tesco In-store Vote.  When customers make any transaction in any one of the stores in the Bedford area – Super stores, Extra and Express – they will be given a token which they can cast for Bedford Wheelchair Racing. Voting will commence in the stores on Tuesday 28^th April and close at the end of July.

Well done to our junior athletes who took part in the London Mini Marathon Championship race yesterday. A brilliant event running the final 2.62k of the London marathon course.