StatPack Mark 24 - Introduction
now updated to 31st March 2025
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Introduction
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Hello and a warm welcome to StatPack Mark 24 which updates the last (September 2023) version by including marks achieved during the 2024 indoor and outdoor seasons.
​Simon Kilminster compiled the first edition of StatPack almost 30 years ago and although details from earlier years occasionally surface almost all the changes in this edition again come from performances from the current bunch of talented athletes who continue to rewrite these rankings almost as soon as they can be produced!.
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​​​Ruby Tillson continued where she left off after her prolific year in 2023 and after adding 10 centimetres to her high jump best last year in setting club U17, U20 and senior bests of 1.75m, Ruby added a further five centimetres in 2024, improving her records four times and clearing new marks of 1.80m, six centimetres higher than any previous club female. She won high jump golds at the Essex, Southern, England Athletics and English Schools Championships and added the English Schools Heptathlon title for her third national title in the year. The sky is literally the limit for Ruby!
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​​There were three new club records set by the Under 17 Men, and two of these were also new best in the Under 20 men’s age group. Joel Ajayi, who had brilliant year which saw him earn a Great Britain Under 18 vest and win 100m bronze in the European Championships in Jerusalem, set new 100m marks in both age groups of 10.49s, and he also ran a wind assisted 10.38s which was the fastest mark ever by a club male. The second U17 & U20 record was set by the Under 17 Men’s 4x100m relay quartet of Ryan Alexander, Emmanuel Asirifi-Otchere, Tobia Samuel and Maxwell Adeosun who improved the one-year club sprint relay best to 43.37s in the Club:Connect Relays in the Olympic Stadium at the Diamond League Meeting in July, and equalled this time at the National Relay Championships at Birmingham a month later. The third Under 17 record was set by Freddie Rowe who added the 1500m record to the 3000m record that he set last year as an Under 15, becoming the first Under 17 man to break four minutes for the distance with 3m 49.90s.
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Two new Under 15 hammer records fell, as new members Lila Chapelhow and Sam Johnson broke the Girls’ and Boys’ marks by over 10 and five metres respectively with their 39.60m and 46.40m throws. Also, on their field, Alicia Fairmaner twice long jumped 5.75m to equal the club Under 17 Women’s best set 20 years ago by Lucy Sargent, in a great season that saw Alicia win a silver medal in the England Athletics championships.
Twins Tobi and Timi Oluborode Oluseye both set new Under 13 Boys’ club records as Tobi improved the 75m mark with his 9.80s mark and Timi the 150m record with his 19.74s mark. One Under 13 girls’ record also fell as Abigail Adegite’s end of season 1926 point pentathlon score improved Lynsey Clark’s 25 year old mark.
​Another long-standing mark bit the dust when the Under 20 Women’s 4x100m quartet of Stephanie Okoro, Stephanie Osuala, Olivia Boachie and Cassie Campbell demolished the club senior record which had stood since 1991, and the more recent Under 20 mark, clocking 47.80s to take over one second off both of the old marks in their heat at the National Relays championships, and improved this further a few hours later to 47.69s when winning bronze in the final.
​Two other senior and Masters records to fall were set by Lauren Reed who broke Faye Fullerton’s half marathon club record with her one hour 13 minutes 38 secs clocking at Wokingham in March and then Debbie Sullivan/Appleton’s marathon record the following month by over four minutes with her two hours 38 mins 2 secs time in the London Marathon.
​Finally, as more club athletes move through into the masters ranks those lists are being rewritten with Chloe Williams, Ginte Bailey and of course Lauren Reed setting new W35 marks, and Claire Brennan W40 marks, James Connor M40 bests and Jason Lendon the M45 steeplechase mark.
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We hope that many more revisions will continue to be registered in 2025.
As noted previously, the rankings include only performances for athletes who met the age definitions now in use – this means that a few long-standing under 17 boys’ marks no longer qualified as the athlete in question was too old under the current age groups. This happened because before 1964 an athlete’s age group was calculated as at 1 April prior to the start of the track season not as at 31 August, and also the statisticians used a 31 December cut off until 1970. I have only included any changes that I have been able to find but it may mean that any marks for that athlete the previous season have been missed.
As usual, some observations on the contents, as follows.
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Any new listings since StatPack 2019 are all printed in "BOLD" to make them more noticeable — the new additions in 2022 are highlighted in BLUE while those from 2021 are high in RED
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Where an athlete’s best hand time is marginally better than their best electronic times I’ve included the electronic times as well where these are within the rankings limit.
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As with recent StatPacks I’ve listed wind-assisted marks separately. Debate will continue about whether some marks were or weren’t wind assisted – but where there is firm or good evidence of wind assistance (e.g. if the annual national rankings show it) I have listed marks as windy. Some other marks have come to light that are still unverified and I have included these here on that basis.
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Javelin Senior/Junior Men’s marks have been included from 1986 only, when the new specification (800g) came in. For the U15 and U17 Women the new specification (500g) javelin came into effect on 1 April 2014. (The specification for U15 to U17 Women was previously 600g. For seniors the specification changed in 1999 and old pre-1999 specification rankings have been omitted)
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Shot & Hammer: For the U15 and U17 Women the new specification (3kg) came into effect on 1 April 2014.
I have continued to use the following conversion criteria for historic marks.
Ø 100 Yards ‑ 100 Metres 100 Yards time plus 1.0 second
Ø 220 Yards ‑ 200 Metres 220 Yards time less 0.1 seconds
Ø 440 Yards/440 Yards Hurdles ‑ 400 Metres 440 Yards time less 0.3 seconds
Ø 880 Yards ‑ 800 Metres 880 Yards time less 0.7 seconds
Ø 120 Yards Hurdles ‑ 110 Metre Hurdles Same as they are the same distance