Woodford Green AC with Essex Ladies

01/08/2026

Congratulations to our Yemi Mary John on her silver medal, running Leg 2 of the Mixed 4 x 400m relay in the Commonwealth Games!

England with a superb silver in the mixed 4x400m relay ‼️

The quartet of Ben Jefferies, Yemi Mary John, Toby Harries and Lina Nielsen combine to clock 3:11.58 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

They placed behind Jamaica and ahead of Nigeria 🌎

31/07/2026

A tribute to Gwen Simpson who has died aged 98. Gwen coached throws to a high level for many years, and was a former President of Essex Ladies AC.

https://www.wgel.org.uk/news/9-announcements/3772-rip-gwen-simpson

31/07/2026

The website features a report on the 3rd Southern League match, which was hit by a tornado!

Woodford Green Athletic Club with Essex Ladies is a top class athletics club, one of the best in the UK.

22/07/2026

Some of the runners, jumpers, throwers & hurdlers of our Lower YDL Team who recently competed at Reading for their 3rd match of the season! Love these photos from Johnny Ng 💚🤍📸

20/07/2026

💚🤍 NAL Home Fixture 🤍💚
It was 4th on the day, leaving us joint 3rd in the league, for our senior teams at the recent National Athletics League fixture. A full report sharing lots of excellent performances is on the website! 💻

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17/07/2026

Racing at the BMC Watford Grand Prix on Saturday evening, Ben Potrykus broke the longest standing Men's "domestic" (GB qualified) Club T&F record when he recorded 7m55.62 secs. This improved the mark of 1968 Mexico Olympian Maurice Benn, who recorded 7min57.65 at Crystal Palace in July 1975. The absolute bests are held by Youcef Abdi (Aus), outdoors with 7m54.31 secs and David McCarthy (Ire) indoors with 7m51.24 secs

17/07/2026

69 photos from last weekend's National League match at Ashton, taken by Alex Wardle:

Ahston Playing Fields

13/07/2026

Alan Bird’s report on the National Athletics League fixture at Ashton on Saturday is now on the website. Our combined Men’s and Women’s team remains in the upper part of the division:
https://www.wgel.org.uk/news/10-athletics/3769-nal-round-two

04/07/2026

A world record at England Athletics champs 👏

Tosin Oke won our Senior Men’s Triple Jump today with an M45 world record jump of 15.34! 🙌

The British-Nigerian athlete spoke of how affiliated club Woodford Green AC with Essex Ladies have supported him on his journey so far after receiving his gold medal (check out his interview on our Instagram and TikTok)🥇

📸 Pat Isaacs

22/06/2026

Our athletes came away from the UK Senior Championships with 4 medals and many other good performances. Alan Bird's report is now on the website:

Georgie Forde-Wells and Yemi Mary John led Woodford performances at the British Championships held over the weekend where national medals were also won by