City of York Athletic Club

18/06/2026

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16/06/2026

A great night at the GLL Sport Foundation for City of York AC celebrating 6 of our athletes receiving awards for the 2026 season ⭐️ congratulations to our athletes and thank you GLL!

16/06/2026

We’re so excited to see our own break a 3 year old PB with a 6.75m LJ 👏 come on Lucy!!! 🔥

15/06/2026

Huge congratulations to City of York AC athlete Rowan Whittaker, who was part of the GB Mixed 4x400m relay team at the Mannheim Gala in Germany this weekend.

The team produced a brilliant performance to break their own National Record, running 3:22.57 and moving to 5th in the World rankings.

An incredible achievement for Rowan and a very proud moment for City of York AC.

👏🇬🇧 Well done Rowan and Team GB!

15/06/2026

Four club distance running records were set over the weekend.

Angus McMillan broke the outright club 3000m record on Saturday at the BMC meeting at Loughborough as he ran 8.02.60 taking 1.47 seconds off the 32 year old club record that was held by Kim Critchley. Angus held off Tommy Shaw who ran 8.09.24 for a PB in the same race. Beth Lewis ran 9.28.11 for 3000m in the same meeting which was faster than both the U17 and U20 club records under the old age groups. There was also a PB for Adam Bateman of 3.55.62 in the 1500m with Gianluca Mastrolonardo running 3.52.79 for the same distance. Moving onto the 800m Sophie Robertson-Dover ran a PB of 2.13.31 with Archie Lawson running 1.53.18.

Alex Botterill put his club vest on in Nice as he achieved the qualifying time for both the European Championships and Commonwealth Games as he ran 1.44.16. The UK trials are next weekend.

Ben Walker broke the U18 club 10k road record in Leeds on Sunday as he ran 32.51 in the run for all 10k. Ben took nearly a minute off the old club record that was set by Oliver Cockerill from 10 years ago. Alfie Howard ran a PB of 36.27 with Neil Walker running his 2nd 10k PB of the week as he ran 47.48.

Friday night saw the latest race in the York University 5k series with another club record being set this time by Sebastian Brown in the U12 age group as he ran his first 5k as opposed to parkrun in 21.36. There were PBs from Matthew Boyle (17.04), Noah Stipetic (18.51) and Harriett Brown (20.30) with Caleb Proudlove (16.41) and Marianne Lowson (18.37) also running.

Dave Lancaster came 2nd vet 65 in the hilly Otley 10 Miles race last Wednesday.

26 runners from the club did parkrun over the weekend. Luke Haynes came 1st at Horncastle in 18.31, Will Torgerson 2nd at Fountains Abbey in 16.49 with Joel Hutchinson coming 3rd at Dalby Forest in 18.31. There were veteran age group wins for Dave Lancaster, Steve Wright and Jon Blake. Archie Hadfield, Lucas Leslie and Thomas Douthwaite were the first 3 runners in the York Junior Parkrun.

11/06/2026

The 4th race in the York 10k Road Race League took place on Tuesday night on a cool windy evening on the Knavesmire. Thankfully for there were no hills for the first time in the series but runners can always grumble about windy conditions!

Pride of place went to our women’s team who took first place in the team competition with our men coming 6th.

Laura Thompson won for the second race in a row by just over a minute in a time of 36.58. Because Laura missed the first two races in the series Laura needs to run in both the last two races in the series to have a chance of defending her league title. Chrissie Dover ran her second 10k race in three days and again broke the 40 minutes barrier with 39.50 to come 7th overall and 1st vet 45. Amber Brown running her last race before training for the army for a couple of months came 9th in 40.38 with Julie Mastrolonardo coming 38th overall and 1st vet 55 in 46.15. Both Julie and Chrissie have taken the overall series titles for their veteran age groups after winning all four races in their category.

Will Torgerson was first male home from the club in 4th place in 34.46. Tim Pattison was 7th overall and 2nd vet 35 in 35.18 with Matthew Boyle running a PB in 11th place with 35.27. Luke Haynes found the going tough after several races in recent weeks as he came 15th in 35.52. There was then quite a long wait until our next two counters came in with Tim Day coming 92nd in 41.17 And Jon Blake 96th in 41.36. Jon Blake was first vet 60. It was also great to see Neil Walker break his PB by nearly two minutes with 48.11.

The next race in the series is back to the hills in Bugthorpe in two weeks time.

08/06/2026

Round up of distance running races from the last fortnight.

Podium 5k staged its first race in York last Saturday and with a large prize list and a good reputation the standard of racing was likely to be high for the 5 lap 5k course on the University of York cycle circuit. Katy Wood broke her club record to come 3rd in the elite women’s race in 16.12 as the sub 16 minute barrier continues to remain elusive. Beth Lewis also equalled the old outright club record as she ran 16.15 to come 4th. Beth’s time took just over 90 seconds off the old club record for the under 18 age group. Jess Robertson-Dover narrowly missed her PB to come 14th in 17.16. The elite women’s and men’s B race was won by James Wisbey in 15.35 as the popular York University student ran one of his last races for the club with Luke Haynes running 16.21. In the men’s A race Isaac Stabler ran a well judged race to take just over 40 seconds off his PB to run 15.04, over-hauling Adam Bateman (PB of 15.12) on the last lap. Charlie Wright (15.16) and Ed Brown (15.29) also ran PBs.

Dave Lancaster was 3rd vet 65 in the Bronte 5 miles race last Thursday in 38.18 in an event that also served as a Yorkshire Veteran Championships. Chrisse Dover ran 39.28 to be 2nd vet 45 in the Grimsby 10k.

Our members continue to run good times in British Milers Club meetings with 5 members taking part in the Birmingham meeting on Saturday and 5 going to Leeds on Monday night. At Birmingham Gianluca Mastrolonardo continued his comeback from an injury hit winter as he ran a PB of 3.46.19 in the 1500m. In the 5000m Katy Wood ran her first track race in 2 years as she ran 16.19.98. Angus McMillan again narrowly missed out on breaking 14 minutes with 14.04.74. In the 800m Megan Ledden opened her season with 2.11.91 with Archie Lawson running 1.50.59. Conditions weren’t easy at Leeds on Monday night as Will Hardy (4.05.18), Sophie Robertson-Dover (PB of 4.48.30) and Sienna Newcombe (5.22.73) ran in the 1500m. James Tucker (8.54.87) and Jess Robertson-Dover (10.19.66) both did the 3000m.

At parkrun on the weekend of the 30th May James Wisbey came 1st on the Knavesmire in 16.00 with Isla Watson coming 2nd at the York Community Woodlands in 21.58. Anna Proctor got a junior age group win. Noah Stipetic came 1st in the York Junior parkrun with Josephine Lowson being the 2nd girl. Moving on a week to last weekend, Will Torgerson came 1st at Fountains Abbey in 17.00 with veteran age groups wins for Tim Pattinson, Steve Wright and Dave Lancaster. In Sunday’s York Junior Parkrun Lucas Leslie and Thomas Douthwaite were 1st and 3rd for the boys with Leilani and Elodie Adams being 1st and 3rd for the girls.

02/06/2026

Sunday 31/5/26 City of York Athletic Club
The Lower YDL team were in action again for match 2 Luckily the weather was a lot kinder this time and there were enough left at the end of the day to take the traditional team photo of those who stayed to support our relay teams! Would be nice to see a few more next time.
There were PBs aplenty recorded over the course of the day… over 60 again! Team spirit was amazing with athletes again being brave and willing to step into brand new events to fill gaps and score valuable team points. Leighton now knows how to throw a discus, Agnes and Poppy have had a first taste of javelin, and Isaac took on the daunting challenge of 80 metres of hurdles. Guy, who only came for throwing a hammer, ended up winning B team shot, 2nd in A team discus and ran a leg for our 2nd placed 300 relay team!
York athletes took 3 out of the top ten individual performances of the day: Max Hudson top of the table with his 24.82 second 200m and his 12.1 100m securing joint 4th with Hugo Williamson who ran the 100m hurdles in 14.93. There were some impressive performances again from our relay squads too with wins from the u14 girls and the u16 boys in the 4x100m. The boys improved their time from YDL 1 to 46.29 and the girls ran an amazing 52.31 which puts them 5th in the country.
At the end of the day all groups won their age/gender categories and York took the overall win with 634 points, over a 100 points clear of Harrogate Harriers (529.5) with Kingston upon Hull coming a very close 3rd (528). Looking forwards to the next match on the 18th July in Hull.

27/05/2026

The third race in the York 10k Road Race League took place on a warm evening at Easingwold last night. Although the temperature during the race wasn’t quite as warm as the record temperatures on Monday the sun still beated down on runners as they headed up the double climb into Crayke.

The two teams from the club both did brilliantly as the men finally got a good 6th counter out to dominate the men’s team race with a score of just 43 points well ahead of the next best team who got 111 points. The women came 3rd as they again had the minimum 4 runners required for a team.

The men’s race followed a similar pattern to the first two in the series as York Postal’s Dom Carter sped off to an easy win with the chasing group containing several City of York runners bidding their time in the battle for the other podium places. James Wisbey pulled away in the second half to come 2nd in 35.10 with Will Torgerson getting his first podium place in the league with 3rd in 35.29. Luke Haynes (6th in 36.07) finished just ahead of Tim Pattison who had the consolation of being 1st vet 35 in 36.13. Adam Davis in his first race in the League came 10th in 36.47 with Matthew Boyle rounding off the team in 15th in 37.04.

Laura Thompson made her first appearance of the series and comfortably won the woman’s race in 38.16 nearly 90 seconds ahead of York Acorn’s Charlotte Bush. Chrissie Dover came 5th overall and 1st vet 45 in 40. 53 just three days after her 800m, 1500, 5000m triple race day at the National Athletics League. She must have a steel body to do all these races! Julie Mastrolonardo took her 3rd consecutive vet 55 win in 47.50 just ahead of India Ibbotson who was 34th in 47.59.

The next race in the series finally leaves the hills behind and heads to the Knavesmire for the York parkrun course by two. Hopefully the weather will have cooled down a bit and there will be some PBs to report.