It has been another outstanding weekend for the sprinters of Blackheath and Bromley with Adam Gemili helping the Great Britain 4x100 team to victory at the European Team Championships and Kieran Daly and Dina Asher Smith both completing sprint doubles at the England Under 23 and Under 20 Championships at Bedford.

Britain fielded what was described as a “developmental squad” for the European Team Championships at Braunschweig in Germany and they finished 5th. The squad only won one event and that was the 4x100 metres in which Adam ran the anchor leg crossing the line 38.51, just outside the event record.

Serita Solomon ran a seasons best of 13.22 in the 100 metre hurdles but in a high quality contest she was 8th. Second claimer Izzy Jeffs was 7th in the javelin with 52.63.

This time last year Adam was celebrating a sprint double at the England Athletics Under 23 Championships at Bedford. Twelve months on and another B&B athlete achieved the same feat. Kieran Daly set a new best of 10.18 to win the 100 metre title on Saturday. This is inside the qualifying standard for the European Championships which take place at Zurich in August. Next weeks British Trials will be interesting as nine athletes have so far got the standard this year.

The John Powell coached athlete returned the next day to take the 200 metre title in 21.07 despite running into a -1.1 metre per second wind, just outside the best he set at the same track three weeks ago.

Meanwhile, Dina Asher Smith was performing the same double in the under 20s age group winning the 100 metres in a wind assisted time of 11.11. Her 11.21 in her heat is still faster than any other Junior in the World this year.

So too is the John Blackie coached athlete’s 22.74 winning clocking for the 200 metres. This is the second fastest ever time by a British Junior with only Kathy Cook’s 22.70, set at altitude, being quicker. It is also a Club Junior and Senior record. She now looks forward to the World Junior Championships which take place in Eugene next month.

John also coaches Shannon Hylton who was runner up to Dina in a time of 23.42, which is also a World Championship qualifying time and she also won bronze in the 100 metres in 11.54.

Twin sister Cheriece ensured the Hylton household took home a complete set of medals as she won the 400 metres in a new Championship Best Performance of 53.56. The qualifying standard for the World Championships is 53.30 and the deadline for achieving this is the 6th of July.

The final gold medal of the weekend came from Kerri Davidson in the under 20 womens triple jump. She leapt a new personal best of 12.48.

Back in the under 23 age group Jonathan Ilori had his first competition after returning from University in the United States and finished second in the triple jump with a distance of 15.46. Rachel Dickens was 4th in the 400 metres in a new best of 54.13 and Jahisha Thomas was 5th in the long jump with 5.82.

More medals in the under 20s came from Stefan Amokwandoh, who was third in the triple jump with 14.83; and from Louis Mascarenhas with a bronze in the discus with a throw of 49.81.

Matthew Blandford was 4th in the discus with 48.28 while Louis was 5th in the shot with 15.13. Oliver Newport was 5th in the long jump with 7.06; Richard Webb 7th in the 3000 steeplechase in a new best of 9.35.57; Will Fuller 10th in the 3000 in 8.43.06; and second claimer Robert Sutherland 7th in the triple jump with 14.14. For all the latest Club news visit the website at www.bandbhac.org.uk