September 2025: Performance round up
Following the busy summer of competition, September has been a quieter month with just two England teams competing. Although small in number, these teams have had big success competing against the other Home Nations.
Impressive performances from England Combined Eventers
A strong team of ten athletes headed to Belfast to compete against the other Home Nations across decathlon and heptathlon at the start of September. England athletes topped the podium in all the age groups with the U20 women’s heptathlon team taking all three top spots. The team spirit throughout the weekend was great to see.
Stephen Simmons (Tonbridge AC, David Hull) and Kieran Bouwmeester-Reid (St Mary's Richmond, Kim Weir / Tom Farres) excelled in their individual performances setting lots of new personal bests. Stephen also set a new stadium record at the Mary Peters Track in the senior men’s decathlon, whilst in the U20 men’s competition Kieran achieved a championship best performance.
Young talent shines at the British and Irish Mountain Running Championships
This year North Wales played host to the Junior Mountain Running Championships. The English athletes excelled as they took team silver in the U17 men’s and U20 women’s competitions and team gold in the U20 men’s and U17 women’s races. These performances matched the team from Scotland, so they shared the Edinburgh Trophy for overall best team.
There were outstanding individual performances for Jack Sanderson (Settle Harriers, Alastair Scholey) as he won the U20 men’s race by 34 seconds and Clara McKee (Calder Valley Fell Runners) as she claimed victory in the U17 women’s race.
Top athletes competing on the world stage
The best athletes in the world headed to Tokyo this September to compete in the World Athletics Championships. Some of the GB and NI team shone amongst the world’s best to secure their spot on the podium. To top off her outstanding season, Amy Hunt (Charnwood, Marco Airale) raced through to a silver medal in the women’s 200m.
In the 800m, training partners Georgia Hunter-Bell (Belgrave Harriers, Trevor Painter) and Keely Hodgkinson (Leigh, Trevor Painter) made the podium together winning silver and bronze respectively. Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Liverpool, Aston Moore) also won an historic bronze medal as she shared the third spot on the podium with USA’s Taliyah Brooks.
The World Para Athletics Championships are currently taking place in New Dehli, India. So far English athletes have secured four medals, including a 1-2-3 in the women's T34 400m. Hannah Cockroft (Leeds, Paul Moseley) won an incredible 17th world gold, followed by Karé Adenegan (Coventry, Arno Mul) in silver and Fabienne André (Sutton & District, Chris Parsloe) in bronze. Thomas Young (Charnwood, Joe McDonnell) also won bronze in the men's T38 100m.