The Club’s U13s and U15s travelled to Bracknell on what turned out to be the day with the best weather of last weekend. Not a drop of rain in sight!
We finished 3rd behind Bracknell and Windsor. We are currently 3rd overall in our division. Match results are below.
Four Bedford and County athletes travelled to Norwich to represent Cambridgeshire County Schools on Saturday 15th June. In awful weather conditions they all came away with medals.
Bedford & County claimed second in the annual Greensand Ridge Relay on Saturday 15 June. What is normally a hot and dusty mid-summer trail run from Leighton Buzzard to Northill village turned into a 35 mile cross country mudfest in the wind and rain. Run in a handicap format over 6 legs, the team of Ewan Wilson, Ellie Garraway, Sean Crawley, Charlie Palmer, Henry Taylor and Oliver Wilson started 33rd, overhauling 31 teams across 4 hours of racing to finish an agonizingly close 1min 51 secs behind the winners. Thanks to Andy Blair for logistics support on the day. We’ll be back next year to try to go one better.
The juniors finally had a warm, sunny match at Bury St Edmunds. In what was our toughest match of the season so far we came away with a total of 83 PBs and 4 SBs. The girls achieved 50 PBs and 4 SBs. The boys 33 PBs. After 3 of 4 matches we are currently 13th overall in the league, just one place and 173 points off qualifying for the Plate Final.
The Club’s U13s and U15s travelled to Hemel Hempstead on what turned out to be a very sunny day for the second match of the YDL.
We finished 3rd behind Windsor and Bracknell. Leaving us 3rd over all in our division. Match results are below.
Four Bedford & County AC athletes travelled to Cambridge to compete in the Cambridgeshire County Championships and all came away with medals.
Martha - javelin – 3rd 24.28m
Tilly – triple jump 2nd 10.74m
Eva – triple jump 1st 10.58m, long jump – 3rd 4.74m
Louis – Javelin – 1st 43.20m
The Club’s athletes had an amazing weekend at the Bedfordshire County Track & Field Championships last weekend winning a total of 77 medals.
Performance of the day must go to Emily who not only set a new U13G Javelin Club record, but also a new Championship Best Performance of 33.72m, bettering the Club record by 2.22m and the CBP by 6.64m.
The U13s won 9 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze, U15s 10 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze, U17s 10 golds, 9 silvers and 6 bronze and U20/Seniors 11 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze.
The club won all top 3 places in the following events:
We had an amazing opening YDL match at Bedford. 26 girls again gave their everything in cold an windy conditions.
Match results were:
1st Bedford 542 points
2nd Bracknell 502 points
3rd Windsor 486 points
4th Wycombe 415.5 points
5th Oxford 363 points
6th Aylesbury 322 points
7th Chiltern 287.5 points
44 girls including 7 debutantes travelled to Stevenage on 14th April for the first EYAL match of the season. We produced 32 Personal Bests, 10 A String wins and 9 B String wins.
We finished 3rd with 499 points behind Cambridge 525 points and Dacorum 668 points.
A contingent of Bedford and County athletes were highly successful at the European Masters Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland held between 17th and 23rd March, with many exceptional medal winning performances being recorded:
Thaila-Jade Mason rounded off her indoor season with a fifth place finish at the National U17 Pentathlon Championships in Sheffield last weekend.
Her standout performance came in the 60m hurdles, where she ran an outstanding race to smash her personal best, reducing it from 9.01 sec to 8.85 sec – the second fastest of the day. She also notched up a 1cm PB in the shot, recording 9.24 metres. Her total score of 3336 points was also a personal best.
Thaila-Jade Mason took the silver medal in an exciting tussle with Deeside’s Olivia Scrimshaw in the U17 long jump at the England Indoor Championships on Sunday.
Whilst Scrimshaw seized the initiative with an outstanding 5.92m jump in the first round, Thaila clawed her was back into contention jumping 5.83m in the second round and 5.87m in the last – just five centimetres shy of Scrimshaw’s winning effort. Nevertheless, Thaila was delighted with her return to form after what has been, for her, a somewhat mediocre indoor season.
In the High jump, there was a bronze medal in the Under 20 Women for Gracie Wall, who jumped 1.63 metres.
Meanwhile Zaphaniah Bryan was maintaining his excellent recent form in the U17 Men’s High Jump. Having recently set a lifetime personal best of 1.88m in winning the South of England title, he finished sixth with a clearance of 1.86m in a high-class competition won at 2.03m.
On the track, it was the turn of Lyla Danobrega to take a break from the mud and rain of cross country and tackle the indoor U 20 1500m. Lyla returned a time of 4m 46.12 sec. for a fine 7th place in a fast run final.
