Sammy Ball coached by Mike Dyer and Kevin Cranmer scored 7,361 points to win the 2022 England Athletics U20 Men’s Decathlon held at Bedford on 28 and 29 May. Sammy’s result surpasses the qualification standard for the U20 World Championships being held in Colombia in August and hopefully will secure his selection for the squad..

Scoring six personal bests over the two days and also securing the U20 Club Record it was a great weekend for Sammy. Along the way he ran his first ever sub eleven second 100m in 10.96 secs. He also broke the 4.00m barrier in pole vault finishing with 4.10m. With personal bests also in 110m hurdles (14.62 secs), discus (43.12m), javelin (44.23m) and shot put (15.10m).

Other Reading AC athletes competing at Bedford were U20 Men Joe Frew who scored 5,536 points, finishing in 13th position and attaining a personal best in the discus (28.27m) and close to his personal best in may of the other events.

Hollie Cranmer competed in the U20 Women’s heptathlon scoring 2,679 points and attaining personal bests in 200m (30.24 secs), high jump (1.38m) and shot put (6.55).

Kevin Cranmer, a M40 veteran athlete, competed in the senior men’s decathlon with senior men’s weights and measures scoring 4,850 points. In great form Kevin was 1/100th short of a 100m personal best with a 12.65 sprint into a head wind. Kevin then went on to record a 56.26 electronic timed best in the 400m.

Overall a great weekend of action in Bedford.