Bedford & County Athletic Club

Adam completes seventh star marathon at Sydney 🌟

Bedford & County's Adam Harris completed the TCS Sydney marathon, adding to his numerous sub-3-hour finishes and a Seven-Star award for the World Abbot Major marathon series on the 30th August 2026.

He has already achieved the prestigious marathon majors Six-Star award, by running the London, Boston, Berlin, Chicago, New York City marathons and the Tokyo marathon with the club Vice president Paula unwittingly finishing close by who also has a 6 Star. Adam met up with Paula at the Sydney marathon where she was commentating to sign his vest.

Club record for Oriana at the World Masters Athletics Championships 🙌

Oriana Johnson competed in the W65 Women’s Hammer Throw at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea.

Oriana produced an excellent performance to finish 19th overall, exceeding her pre-competition ranking in a very strong international field that saw seven athletes throw beyond 30 metres.

Her best throw of 19.78m was the third-longest competition throw of her career and, even more impressively, set a new W65 club record.

Oriana added more than 2.5 metres to the previous record, set by Dorothy Fraser in 2004, bringing a 22-year-old club record to an end.

A superb achievement on the world stage and a performance Oriana can be extremely proud of.

Ben takes gold at the England Octathlon 🥇

Read the full report on our website: https://bedfordandcountyac.org.uk/index.php/about-us/news-archive/1021-ben-takes-gold-at-the-england-octathlon

Read the report from the 4th round of the EYAL at Bedford last weekend on our website:

Eastern Young Athletes League – Match 4 16th August at Bedford Bedford and County Athletics Club - an archive of news from the club, covering reports, results and general news updates

The Don Turner U14 Southern Inter-County Competition – Sunday 2nd August

A large contingent of the club’s U14 athletes travelled to Walton-On-Thames on Sunday to represent Bedfordshire. For many of these young athletes it was the first time they had worn county colours. Only 3 of the team were not Bedford & County athletes. The boys team finished 10th with 185 points and the girls were 11th with 207 points.

Well done to all who took part.

Thank you to David Brown (Biggleswade) who assembled and managed the team.

Full Bedford & County results on our website: https://bedfordandcountyac.org.uk/index.php/about-us/news-archive/1019-the-don-turner-u14-southern-inter-county-competition-sunday-2nd-august

A few of our athletes took part in the Doug Anderson 5k at Bedford Park on Wednesday 22nd July.

Thomas H finished 8th and was 1st U17M in 16:43
Andre B finished 24th in 18:13
Ellie H finished 32nd and was 2nd female in 18:57
Leah C finished 58th and was 1st U20F in 20:13
Ellie S finished 75th and was 1st U17F in 20:42
Rosie C finished 108th in 22:06

Ellie H, Ellie S and Leah also won 1st female team.

Well done to everyone that ran 👏

The England Athletics Age Group Championships were held at Bedford International Athletic Stadium on 25th and 26th July. Bedford and County Athletes had a successful day out with multiple medals won.


🥈Archie Henderson 2nd U18M 2000m Steeplechase

🥇Oliver Weddell 1st U17M 3000m (3rd U18M)

🥇Ben Phillips 1st U15B Pole Vault (3rd U16B)

🥉Oskar Eastwood 3rd U15B Pole Vault

🥈Kenneth Olohotse 2nd U15 High Jump

Full results: https://meets.rosterathletics.com/public/competitions/details/search?id=28644

Well done to everyone who competed.

Congratulations to Graeme Packman who set a new M70 Club Shot Record at the Corby Open on Weds 14th July with a Put of 10.24m 👏

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