2024
3 DEC - South-West U13/U15/U17 Indoor T&F Championships (Day 1) - Cardiff
10 DEC - U20 European Cross Country Championships - Brussels (BEL)
Ireland U20 team win gold at European Cross Country Championships!
Three Irish runners finished inside the top 10, with Yate runner, Seamus Robinson, coming in 26th, Shane Brosnan in 28th and Harry Colbert in 40th.
Ireland won the team competition by two points, with Great Britain and Northern Ireland in second place.
6/7 JAN - England Senior & U20 Combined Events, Walks & Para Championships - Sheffield
YATE ENTRANTS
- Adam Wilson – SILVER SM PARA 1500m
- Steph Brooks – 12th SW PENTATHLON
7 JAN - South West U13/U15/U17 Indoor T&F Championships (Day 2) - Cardiff






20/21 JAN Midland Counties U15/U17/U20 & Senior Championships - Loughborough
YATE ENTRANTS AND MEDALISTS
- Excel Iwhiwhu
- Edwin Iwhiwhu
- Isabelle Walkey – 60m SILVER
- Annabel Gordon – PENTATHLON BRONZE
- Adam Brooks – HIGH JUMP GOLD
- Jordon Iwhiwhu
- Owen Garrett – SHOT PUT GOLD
27/28 JAN - Welsh Athletics Senior & U15 Championships - Cardiff
YATE ENTRANTS
- Edward Wilson
- Theodore Reeve
- Samuel Brudney
- Kirsty Treglown
- Stephanie Brooks
- Ben Wells
- Katie Robbins
- Grace Cardwell
- Adam Brooks
- Luke Ball
- Ruby Donaldson
- Lily Bailey
- Liam Hillier
- Sophie Hornung
- Dafydd Pawlett
3-4 FEB - Welsh Athletics U20, U17 & U13 Championships - Cardiff
YATE ENTRANTS
- Mackenzie Ritson
- Owen Garrett – U17 SP GOLD
10/11 FEB - EA U20/U17/U15 Indoor Championships - Sheffield
17/18 FEB - UK Senior Indoor Championships - Birmingham
23-25 FEB - BUCS Indoor T+F Championships - Sheffield
9/10 MAR - EA U15/U17 Combined Events Championships - Sheffield
Owen Boon competed in the England Athletics Combined Events Championships in Sheffield, taking part in an heptathlon over two days.
He was the youngest in the field and finished 17th out of 32 competitors.
Owen achieved an amazing 6 out of 7 PB’s in 60m, 60mH, Pole Vault, Shot Put and High Jump as well as the overall points total.
20-22 MAR - European Masters Indoor Championships - Torun, Poland
w60 HAMMER THROW
- GOLD – Karen Jones – 35.49m
W60 WEIGHT THROW
- SILVER – Karen Jones – 13.12m
14 APR - Yate Sprints & Hurdles Open Meeting - Yate
20 APR - Lower YDL (match 1) - Newport
28 APR - Upper YDL (Match 1) - Aberdare
Team Avon win match 1!
Results:ย YDL 2019_UAG (ukydl.org.uk)
10-11 MAY - Wiltshire County Championships - Swindon
12 MAY - Avon County Championships
19 MAY - Lower YDL (Match 2) - Gloucester
26 MAY - Upper YDL (Match 2) - Yate
27 MAY - Pickering Memorial Throws International - Loughborough
Congratulations
to Owen Garrett (Coach Paul Filer) and Louis Tutcher (Coach Matt Spicer), who were selected to represent England at the inaugural โPickering Memorial Throws Internationalโ held at Loughborough University on 27th May 2024.
Also, to Coach Matt Spicer, who was selected to be the Hammer Throw Team Manager
Both athletes were competing in the U18 age group category, as they are prospects for the U18 European Championships.
Louis thew the 5kg hammer a new PB of 66.26m in round three giving him the confidence to really attack the 69m European Championships Qualifying Standard in the remaining rounds, but unfortunately on this occasion his efforts werenโt rewarded.
Owen, who had surpassed 50m with the 1.5kg discus earlier in the month, at the County Championships, took a little longer to find his form on this occasion, recording an excellent mark of 49.41m in the sixth and final round.ย The qualification standard set by UK athletics for the European Championships is 54.50m.
We would like to wish both athletes all the very best as they strive for their qualifying standards, but are very proud of both for what they have already achieved.
1 JUN - NAL (1) - Swansea
NAL Match 1 Swansea 1st June 2024Toggle Content goes here
15 JUN - South West Schools Championships - Exeter






15/16 JUN - Welsh U15 and Senior Championships - Cardiff
RESULTS – Results (thepowerof10.info)
- 100m – Edward Wilson
- 100m/200m – Kirsty Treglown
- 400m – Katie Robbins
- 1500m – Gregory Hayward
- PV – Sophie Hornung
- PV – Liam Hillier
- PV – Iwan Slade
22 JUN - NAL (2) - Yate
National Athletic League Championship West Division, Match 2 Yate 22nd June 2024
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Firstly, what a great day of quality competition.
We had some amazing performances and had a great tussle with Swansea and Cardiff through the afternoon. We had club records in three of the relay races, plenty of Pbโs and some debut NAL appearances.
A debut performance and win for Freya Bradley in the 3000m, she lead from gun to finish with a Swansea athlete shadowing her until 2 laps to go when Freya slowly applied the pressure and pulled away for a fantastic 9m33.98s Pb.
Daisy Harvey improved her 400m Hurdles best to 70.27s to take a win in the โBโ string event backing up Stephanie
Brooks who won the โAโ race with a performance consolidating her recent excellent form.
Amelia Brandon had a superb day of Pbโs, firstly in 100m Hurdles with a 14.90s to take 2nd in the โBโ Race and then followed up in 100m (13.00s) and 200m (26.86s) in the non-scoring races.
Abby Barnfield moved her Hammer Pb on to 42.52m securing a 3rd place in the โAโ string with Leah Hale showing some good form again with a 37.22m effort to win the โBโ string.
Keira Devereux and Laura Chance paired up in the 800m race and took โAโ and โBโ string wins with convincing runs while Eleanor McIntosh making her team debut took a clear 400m โAโ race win with Katie Robbins also a clear 400m โBโ string winner.
For the first time in our NAL history we had a Steeplechaser in the Womens 1500S/C, Grace Cardwell back from Oxford University used her 400m Hurdling skills to negotiate successfully the S/C barriers in a new event for her, a good Pb at 5m57.23s and 3rd place was welcome points scoring for the team.
Lily Bailey continued improving her recent form with a 1m66 High Jump just missing out on her 1m70 attempts.
Martha Barratt showed her Javelin potential with her debut team performance. Arisa Burgess and Sophie Hornung in the Pole vault pushed the team score along with another 20 points between them. Good supporting work in the field from Jo Smerdon and Libby Davidson also kept the score accumulating.
Isabel Walkey, another team debutant, ran another sub 25s clocking in the 200m for a further โAโ string victory. Ella Bowell made it another sprint victory in the โBโ 100m while Kirsty Treglown missed equalling her Pb by one hundredth in the 100m โAโ race for 3rd. The short sprint quartet of Isabel Walkey, Amelia Brandon, Ella Bowell and Kirsty Treglown brought the 4x100m team home for a victory and new club record of 47.94s, a second and a half knocked off the previous mark.
Highlight of the day has to be our Womens 4x400m relay team, the quartet of Teresa Iannetelli, Stephanie Brooks, Eleanor McIntosh and Katie Robbins trounced the opposition and bettered the club record by eight seconds, recording 3m54.20s which is currently the 16th ranked 4x400m performance on Power of 10.
For the men, there were also a number of debut performances and Pbโs. First time appearance for Josh Maggs who shaded his 100m best with a 10.82s and Mackenzie Ritson with a fine 22.34s in the โBโ 200m.Also first timers Thomas Darton and Paul Gardiner who took on the 5k and rewarded with Pbโs of 16m03.03s and 16m28.29s respectively.
Dale Webb another team newbie Pbโd with 8m35.28s in the 2k S/C backing up Alexander Wilson who took the โAโ string win with another Pb of 6m19.33s.
It was โAโ and โBโ string wins for our men in 400m, 800m and 1500m. Kane Lee battled hard with some great front running just missing his Pb by 7 hundredths of a second. Elliott Chard won the 800m โBโ race. Our strong 400m pair Isaac Cory and Ben Wells continued the victory runs with 46.98s and 49.20s respectively, while Greg Hayward and Seamus Robinson did likewise in the 1500m.
Iwan Slade made a welcome Pole Vault contribution of 3m41 with his first team appearance and Louie Nelson Pbโd in the Triple Jump with 11m72.
Louis Tutcher who was competing primarily in the Hammer to get an U18 European qualifying standard, which he did achieve, well done Louis, also made his first team appearance in Discus with a Pb of 39m37 and Shot. James Viner heaved the Hammer out to 49m31 for a first place ably backed up by Matt Spicer stepping in to ensure more points scores for the team.
Luke Ball and Adam Brooks cleaned up with victories in the High Jump and Sam Brudney, Dominik Gordon, Will Taylor contributed to the team totals.
After some drop outs the scratch 4x100m team, Hillier, Tutcher, Ritson and Brudney showed excellent team spirit never faltering to give 100%.
The mens 4x400m team, Cory, Wells, Wilson, and Ritson took a victory with 3m22.58s breaking the long standing club record from 1989 (K.Blandford G.Howell M.Wassell M.Kloiber), almost 35 years what took you so long boys!
Also scoring a massive 50pts for the team our fantastic team of Officials. A huge team that had to substitute for other clubs shortfalls and of course all our Chiefs, Start team, Scorers, Referees, Photo-finish, Equipment handlers and general helpers that make the meeting a possibility. Iโm sure I may miss some of them but here they are:- - Graham Brooks Field Ref
- Sandra Woodman Starters Assistant
- Mike Smerdon Field Ref
- Carol Strange Starters Assistant
- Jason Wyatt Track Ref
- Paul Thorn Equipment
- Matt Viner Chief Timekeeper
- Heather Nelson Photofinish
- Patrick Chance Timekeeper
- Charlotte Viner Results Recorder
- Andrew Moyes Track Judge
- Barbara Smerdon Results Recorder
- Stuart Woodman Chief Starter
- Matt Muggeridge Assistant Team Manager
- Stuart Nunn Starter
- Ken Goodger Field Judge
- Debbie Brooks Field Judge
- Bob Lavis
- Camilla Merrett Field Judge
- Neil Miller
- Jeremy Dale Field Judge
- Ellen Taylor Announcer
- John Smerdon Field Judge
A great second place in the match should secure our place in the NAL for 2025 and a good level of competition for our athletes, third and final match on 7th July in Yeovil. -
Swansea 593
Yate 549
Cardiff 509
Basingstoke 400
Yeovil 381
Southampton 38
22 JUN - Welsh 3000m & 5000m Championships (inc Welsh Wheelchair Championships) - Newport
100WC
- 2nd – Toby Richardson (T54/F57) – 19.31s
400WC
- 1st – Toby Richardson (T54/F57) – 66.04s
23 JUN - LYDL (3) - Yate
TEAM MANAGERSโ REPORT
LYDL MATCH 3 โ YATE โ 23 JUNE 2024
In our third match we managed to finish 4th with Swindon in 3rd place only 5 points ahead!ย This was a massive improvement from our last match where we finished in 6th place.ย We avoided immediate relegation, but it will mean that we will need to fight for our place to stay up next season and avoid relegation by putting all our best performances over the 3 matches to compete on paper.
There were some fantastic performances on the day and a total of 28 PBs from the U15s part of the team, not to mention all the EA gradings recorded.
Ciaran Merrett finished 1st in both the hammer with a PB of 46.28 and the discus 38.73. These distances put him 1st in the South-West for both events and 7th overall in the UK for hammer, and 10th for discus.
Zachory Ho finished 2nd in the 100m with a personal best time of 12.61. Zachory also ran a pb or 25.38 in the 200m.ย Newcomer, Freddie Hollier, running in his first ever club race, ran a personal best of 11.95 to win a non-scoring 100m. I think you maybe scoring in the paper match Freddie as this performance would have won the A race!ย ย PBs also for Rhys Gore and Edwin Iwhiwhu.
Over 200m, Harry Scherer-Cowell, Nico Nesbit and Lily Walkey all ran pbs against stiff opposition.ย PBs also in the 300m races for Raad Ardalan, Layla Gardiner and Trudi Raper Thornell.
Middle distance runners in the 1500m races were able to gain respectable points for the team with Will Parsons (4 mins 52), pb, Sid Davis (5mins 04.23), pb, and Brooke Michael running 5 mins 34.17 knocking 5 seconds off her pb.
Other personal bests on the day from:
75 Hurdles: Tsz yu Chang, 13.66 seconds
High Jump: Will Parsons, 1.45 metres
Long Jump: Bella Howell, 4.15 metres
Javelin: Oliver King, 16.60 metres
Newcomer, Rebecca Latham-Roberts threw 29.60 in the U15Gs hammer event. This takes her to 5th place in the Southwest rankings in her age-group.
Team spirit on the day was amazing, with new athletes stepping in when some of our usual athletes were unable to compete. It was lovely to see so many new faces on the team this time and the future looks very bright for our junior athletes.
In the U13s team we have seen a massive growth of new members who have wanted to compete for the club, so we put out a big team who tried to fill all the event gaps. There were also amazing results on the day, including 22 PBs from the U13s.
Joseph Sutherland ran a fast 75m and 150m in 9.55 seconds/18.88 seconds. This means Joseph in 1st in the SW and 4th in the UK rankings for both events.
Elizabeth Hutchings won the 1200m event in 3 mins 52.49 seconds, which places her 1st in the SW and 7th in the UK rankings for her age-group. Elizabeth also got a PB in the 70m sprint hurdles, (13.07 seconds). Maybe a future steeplechaser here!
Other PBs from:
Ewan Boulton N/S 75m. 11.8
Gully Williams 150m 22.50
Parish Bailey 800m 2:19.34
Sam Harvey 800m 2:23.56
Joshua Edwards 1200m 4:06.57
Charlie Powell 75m Hurdles 16.34
Freddie Dixon High Jump 130m
Emily Bowell 75m 11.12
Amelia Inglis 75m 11.18
Kara Mitchell 800m 2:46.12
Alice Yick 800m 3:00.40
Amelia Jukes 1200m 4:41.90
Darcey Oviatt 70m hurdles 13.71
Olivia Powell Shot Put 7.45m
Navya Wilkins Shot Put 7.95m
Darcey Oviatt High Jump 1.30m (equalled)
Darcey Oviatt Javelin 22.85m
Boys 4x 100m Relay 3rd 57.76
(Charlie Powell, Lewis Richards. Gully Williams & Joseph Sutherland)
As well as PBs, we also saw winning performances from: Ewan Boulton (1200m B),
Jacob Mead (Jav A), Daniel Gordon (Jav B), Olivia Powell (Shot B), Darcy Oviatt (Jav A). Edith Honeywill (Jav B), Sam Harvey 800 B)
May Ali and I take this opportunity to say a huge well done to all our athletes and a big thank you to all parents, officials and coaches for your support both on the day and behind the scenes.
Joy Bray/Ali Gordon
LYDL Team Managers
POWER OF 10 – Results (thepowerof10.info)
6 JUL - Welsh Schools Championships - Cardiff
Hammer Throw
- 2nd – Abby Barnfield (U20) – 39.87m
7 JUL - NAL (3) - Yeovil
12/13 JUL - English Schools Championships - Birmingham
6 MEDALISTS AT ENGLISH SCHOOLS

















18-21 JUL - U18 European Championships - Slovakia
HAMMER
7th – Louis Tutcher – 68.56m
DISCUS
15th – Owen Garrett – 48.32m
19-21 JUL - England U20/U23/Senior & Senior Para Championships - Birmingham
- 13th – Abby Barnfield (U20 HT)
- 6th – Adam Merrett (U20 HT)
- 5th – Alannah Heneghan (U20 PV)
- 4th – Freya Bradley (U20 3000m)
- 4th Semi Finalist – Isaac Cory (U23 400m)
- 2nd – Jenna Blundell (100mH)
- 25th – Kirsty Treglown (U23 100m)
- 4th – Lily Bailey (U23 HJ)
- 3rd – Luke Ball (U23 HJ)
- 4th – Theo Spurrell (U20 JT)
- 31st – Theo Reeves (Sen 100m)
26-28 JUL - England U15/U17 track and field Championships - Birmingham














27 JUL - South West T&F Championships
26-28 JUL - British Masters Championships
10/11 AUG - U13/U17/U20 Welsh Championships - Cardiff
POLE VAULT
- 2nd – Sophie Hornung (U20) – 3.10m
SHOT PUT
- 1st – Owen Garrett (U17) – 14.33m
DISCUS
- 1st Owen Garrett (U17) – 50.33m
HAMMER
- 2nd – Abby Barnfield (U20) – 42.05m
JAVELIN
- 1st – Owen Garrett (U17) – 49.00m
10/11 AUG - Midland Counties AA U15/U17 Championships inc. U13 Quadrathlon, Sen/U20 Combined Events & 3000m - Nuneaton
FULL LIST OF RESULTS – Results (thepowerof10.info)
FINALISTS
100m
- Isabelle Walkey (U17) – 11.58w
200m
- Isabelle Walkey (U17) – 24.63
300m
- 4th – Jasmine Richards (U17) – 43.54
HAMMER
- 4th – Jasmine Richards (U17) – 35.02m
JAVELIN
- 1st – Henry Watson (U17) – 58.76m
13-25 AUG - World Masters Athletics Championships - Gothenburg, SWE
FULL RESULTS – Results (thepowerof10.info)
800m
- 1st – Anne Dockery (V75) – 3:19.55
5000m
- 1st – Anne Dockery (V75) – 23:35.91
17 AUG - U20 International - Eton
400m
- Rory Brown (U20 -T20/F20) – 61.43
DT
- Owen Garrett (U17) – 49.98m
17/18 AUG - England Athletics Age Group Combined Events & Junior Para Championships (U11-U19) - Eton
DECATHLON
- 7th Owen Boon – 5401pts
1 SEP - UYDL National Final - Manchester
NATIONAL FINAL RESULT:
1. Blackheath & Bromley 792, 2 Rugby & Northants 712, 3 City of York 652, 4 Team Avon 627, 5 Trafford AC 580, 6 Harrow & Dacorum 560.
TEAM AVON came fourth place overall which was one of our best performances in the National Final. Our athletes won 60 medals (26 golds, 9 silver, and 25 bronze) and achieved many new personal best records on the day.
Once again, Team Avon athletes showed we are the best team in the South-West of England and Wales for developing youth talent in athletics. Our athletes generated a terrific team spirit, worked tremendously hard for each other to gain their success and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
There were some outstanding performances across the three disciplines of running, throwing and jumping. As team managers, Lesley and Sandra are extremely proud of the way our athletes conducted themselves. They are a credit to themselves and our sport.
The future of the athletics is safe in their hands though itโs a great pity that the Youth Development League will likely come to end in 2026 when the age groups change.