Hercules Wimbledon AC: Benjy Street breaks barrier at Loughborough British Milers Club Grand Prix

Street, who last week won his 3,000m race at his home Wimbledon Park track in 8:36, clocked an outstanding 5:58.32 to finish second in a high-quality field.

It is the closest an athlete has come to breaking Tim Beagent’s now 55-year-old U20 club record of 5:54.00, set at the English Schools Championships in 1969.

It is also the second fastest time by an U20 in the UK this year, fourth for any athlete junior or senior.

At the London Youth Games in Walthamstow, competing for her school, Freia Harper-Tee won an outstanding silver in the 1,500m. The U15 athlete is in a rich vein of form having just last week broken the club’s U15 record for 3,000m, where she clocked 10:28.

Continuing a stellar weekend for the juniors, U15 Thomas Whorton set a massive PB at the Be Fit Today Track Academy Open Meet at Lee Valley on Sunday, just falling short of the two-minute barrier with a 2:00.22 clocking to win his heat.

It is barely a tenth of a second outside Austin Ferns’ U15 club record, set in 1995.

Eoin Brady has enjoyed a productive summer on the track and that continued at the Finsbury Park 5,000s on Saturday night. Competing in the fastest race of the night, Brady took 20 seconds off his PB, running 15:04.85 for 14th.

Both the men’s and women’s teams enjoyed victories at the Southern Counties Veterans Athletics Club match at Kingsmeadow last Monday night.

The women were dominant winners with 211 points to Epsom & Ewell’s 170, with the men edging it 181 to 179. The team have now won two from two and will head to Sutton on July 8 knowing their place is assured in the league final, held at the start of September.

Competing in the Top Flight BMC Track Meet in Jarrow over 1,500m, Andrew Merry clocked a PB of 4:10.81 to finish seventh in the fourth fastest race of the night.