Herne Hill Harriers’ relegation from the British Athletics League Premiership was confirmed on Saturday despite some strong performances from the club's teenage athletes.

Two of Harriers’ U20 athletes – 19-year-old Lewis Lloyd and 17-year-old Tayo Andrews – notched personal best performances at the final fixture of four at Hendon.

Lloyd finished fourth in the 800m in one hour, 52.78 seconds, in a race won by Great Britain international Mukhtar Mohammed, while Andrews cleared 2.00m in the high jump for the first time to finish seventh.

Newly-crowned Swiss U20 champion Lukas Wieland was some seven metres shy of his personal best as he finished second in the javelin with a throw of 68.50, while Blade Ashby, another 19-year-old, was fifth in the 110m hurdles, clocking 14.62.

In a further breakthrough for Harriers, Jorge Raso Gao won a race at the national standard league for the first time, stunning his rivals with victory in the 3,000m steeplechase in a personal best time of 8:58.75.

There were also personal best runs by Michael Dyer (3:54.3 in the 1,500m A event), Jonathan Stead (8:56.63 in the B 3,000m) and Nicholas Atwell (47.85 in the 400m A string).

Despite those performances though, they finished bottom on the day and bottom of the league overall.

Team captain Geoff Jerwood said: "I am obviously disappointed we were unable to give a better account of ourselves as a collective unit, but I am encouraged by some superb individual performances by some of our team members.

"We need much more depth, especially in the field events, where we currently struggle to cope with the loss of one or two of our best men if unavailable.

"But I have real cause for optimism that we will be able to challenge strongly to try to bounce back, as there is a lot of talent and determination in our ranks."

Harriers’ senior women’s squad also had to face the heartbreak of relegation from division one of the UK Women’s Athletic League after finishing seventh in their final meeting of the season at Kingston.

Event winners were Adelle Tracey (800m A) and Katie Snowden (400m B), while Jana Chlebikova was second in the A-string pole vault, as were the 4x400m quartet of Tracey, Snowden, Hannah Edwards and Jessie Knight who recorded the second-fastest time by a Herne Hill team.

Knight was also third in the 400m A race, Snowden fourth in the A 1,500m following her 400m success, and Edwards fourth in the B 800m.

Elsewhere, Rebecca Zelic narrowly missed out on a medal at the Deaflympics 2013 in Sofia, placing fourth in the 100m hurdles final. Zelic was run out of the medals by Japanese athlete Sayuri Tai.

On the road, Harriers had two finishers in the top-10 of the Self Transcendence 10k in Battersea Park, with Chris Busaileh fourth in 33:23 and Basil Wallace seventh in 34:17. M50 athlete Gary Ironmonger finished 21st in 36:50, while Eric Dol clocked 40:33 in 65th.

Prolific marathoner Jonathan Ratcliffe was third in the inaugural Vanguard Way Marathon in Croydon, clocking three hours, 56 minutes, and running 28 miles due to confusion over the course as the marathon frontrunners started off with athletes racing in the Lloyd parkrun in Croydon.

Mohammed Ismail won the Dulwich parkrun in 16:45, 16 seconds ahead of team-mate and another M50 runner Mike Boyle in second.

Robert Edwards was another runner-up at the Brockwell version of parkrun, clocking 17:27, while James Hambly’s personal best showing of 18:34 was enough for 14th at Wimbledon parkrun.