Julien Allwood confirmed his ranking as the leading U17 male triple jumper in the country by winning the South of England Athletic Association’s U17 Championships at Ashford.

Julien dominated the event, jumping to 14.06m with his first effort and improving to 14.18m to add to his Surrey championship win earlier this month.

Julien now heads national rankings in the U17 men’s age group.

Katie Snowden broke the U17 women’s club record in the 800m, making her the latest young athlete to set a new club mark this summer, setting a superb PB of 2:08.80 in finishing second in a high-quality U17 women’s race.

Katie, in her first year in this age group, set off a searing pace set by last year’s English Schools champion Georgia Bell and moved through to challenge with 250m to go as the leaders dropped back.

She couldn’t catch another previous English Schools champion, Adele Tracey, but nonetheless became the first U17 women in the club’s history to beat the 2:10 barrier for 800m.

Katie’s time was also inside the qualifying mark for the World Youth championships but, as she is only 15 years old, will be too young to compete.

Herne Hill Harriers had a second representative in the final, with Hannah Edwards finishing sixth in 2:15.

Funto Fabunmi-Alade also won a silver medal in a tight finish to the U17 women’s 200m. Funto’s lunging dip enabled her to just earn second place in 25.49.

Jonathan Grant was third in the U17 men’s long jump with 6.68m and reached the final of the 100m, but couldn’t recover from a bad start and he subsequently finished sixth.

Taj Johnson was held up by holiday traffic and arrived just as the U15 boys’ long jump had started. He had to record a mark to qualify for the final three rounds and snatched a bronze medal with his final jump of the competition for a PB of 5.70m.

Later in the afternoon, Taj finished sixth in the U15 boys’ 100m final.

Several newcomers also had their first taste of high quality competition. Hazel Ashby set a PB in the U15 girls’ 200m with 25.97, just failing to reach the final, while throwers Daniel St Aubyn and Louis Keen, who only started competing this summer, performed very credibly.

Daniel finished seventh in the hammer final with a throw 26.99m and Louis placed fourth in the shot with an effort of 10.61m.

Sinead Worrell, also competing at this level for the first time, was fouth in the shot with 9.42m and Alex West knocked six seconds off her PB to record 5:06.16 in the U15 girls’ 1500m heats.

Elsewhere, a number of the club's more senior competitors enjoyed success at the Surrey Vets championships at Ewell Court.

Chris Daniels won the M40 5000m race while in the M45 category there were wins for Kwei Sankofa in the 100m, Masakatsu Kondo in the long jump with a championship best performance and yet another Surrey Vets title for Vic Maughn.

John Garber won the M65 800m and 1500m races and followed up in the sprint races, while Allan Long was successful in the long jump in the same category and achieved a placing in the 100m. Brian Shave achieved a hat-trick of championship best performances in the M75 800m, 1500m and 5000m.

Although reknowned more for being a thrower, Barbara Macanas won the W55 long and triple jumps and achieved placings in all of the throwing disciplines while Sarah Allen won the W45 5,000m.

Results for Saturday’s Surrey County Veterans Championships are at thepowerof10.info/resultsfiles