Welcome to the South West Vets AC Website (site last updated on 16/10/17)

4 Medals for SWVAC athletes in the BMAF 2017 Marathon Champs. - click here to see the results

The SWVAC Track & Field records (including Indoor records) were last updated on 31st August 2017 - view them by clicking here

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A few photos from the 2017 SWVAC T&F Champs. click here to view others on the Photo Gallery page

ALERTS!

Recent BMAF 2017 Road Racing Champs.

BMAF 2017 Marathon Champs.

7 SWVAC athletes competed in the BMAF 2017 Marathon Championships at Chester on Sunday 8th October and 4 won BMAF medals

Congratulations to James Watson, Justin Thomas, Hannah Bown, Cathy Newman, Nigel Haywood, Nick Kernahan and Peter Sargent

Click here to see a summary of the SWVAC athletes results. Click here to see the full BMAF results

BMAF 1 Mile Road Race

5 SWVAC athletes competed in the BMAF 1 Mile Road Race in Cardiff on Saturday 30th September

Well done to David Wilkinson, Kevin Archer, Ken Ham, Peter Mountain & Marian Yallop

Click here to see a summary of the SWVAC athletes results. Click here to see the overall results.

SWVAC Athletes at Recent Veterans & Masters Events

Three SWVAC athletes competed in the 2017 New Forest Marathon on Sunday 10th September

This was also the SWVAC 2017 Marathon Championships

Stephen Rumsey, Nigel Haywood & Peter Bunyan all won SWVAC Gold medals in their age categories.

Click here to see the SWVAC results, click here to see the full New Forest results

Six SWVAC athletes competed in the 2017 BMAF 1/2 Marathon in Northampton on Sunday 3rd September

Steve Oliver, Nigel Haywood, Des White, Alison White, Peter Sergant and Carrie Oliver.

Congratulations to Alison (Gold) and Carrie (Bronze) for winning BMAF medals.

Click here to see results. Click here for a revised summary of the SWVAC performances.

Eight SWVAC athletes competed at the 2017 VAC / SCVAC Track and Field Championships at Kingston on Thames on Sunday 27th August

Robert Broadbridge, Janet Dickinson, Ruth Elkins, Paul Johnson, Neal Mason, Peter Mountain, Steve Oliver & Ian Torode

Click here for the full results. Click here to see a revised summary of the SWVAC performances.

Recent SWVAC Records - 2017

Congratulations to Tony Berry for setting a SWVAC M80 3000m club record of 15.09.8 at the DAN Cornwall County 3000m Champs. at Par on Wednesday 23rd August, the time was a 2017 UK M80 leading time (by 3 minutes) and is the UK 3rd fastest M80 3000m of all-time. See the SWVAC records by clicking here

This also ranked Tony as No. 1 in the World M80 Rankings for 3000m in 2017, we also believe that Tony is 5th in the World 5000m M80 rankings & 6th in the World 10000m M80 rankings.

Congratulations to Roy Huxtable for setting a SWVAC M80 Discus club record of 17.65m at the Devon Open Series meeting at Braunton on Sunday 13th August. Click here to see a photo in the Photo Gallery and see the records by clicking here

Congratulations to Emma Stepto for setting a SWVAC W45 5000m club record of 17.01.41 at the SW Track & Field Championships at Exeter on Sunday 20th August, the time also broke the British W45 all-time record. Also Emma set a SWVAC W45 3000m club record of 9.47.8 at the DAN Cornwall County 3000m Champs. at Par on Wednesday 23rd August. See the records by clicking here