Dorchester Athletics Club captured a whopping 44 medals at the Dorset County Championships, held at King’s Park, Bournemouth.

On a cool and breezy weekend, the county town club showed their full range of skills with 18 gold, 11 silver and 15 bronze medals across a variety of track and field events.

Six athletes collected a brace of titles – Holly Butt (under-17 women’s 100m and 200m), Hannah Jeanes (senior women’s 200m and 400m), Honor Slade (under-15 girls’ 3,000m and hammer), Kirsty Wickham (under-17 women 80m hurdles and high jump), Rachel Dumbrell (under-15 girls’ pole vault and 75m hurdles) and Megan Tuck (junior women’s discus and hammer).

Tuck, who won the discus with a new championship best performance, also bagged silver in the shot, Dumbrell took bronze in the 200m while Wickham also landed a bronze in the shot.

Butt showed she is returning to top form following a recent knee injury and her closest rival was team-mate Phoebe Beer, who claimed silver in the two shorter sprints.

Beer then landed her own county title with victory in the 300m with a two- second personal best.

Slade successfully defended both titles from last year, and in the hammer gave Dorchester their only clean sweep with Harriet Hughes second and Lucie Fry third.

Fry did have her own moment in the sun with victory in the discus, with Hughes again the runner-up before adding a bronze in the shot.

Other athletes collecting county titles included under-17 duo Hilary Hansford (3,000m gold) and Hayley Rooks (hammer gold, shot silver and discus bronze).

At under-15 level, Annabel Armstrong won gold in her first triple jump competition.

Other female medallists were Grace Butt (100m and 200m bronze), Anna James (200m silver, 100m bronze), Tara Chittenden (1,500m bronze) and Beth Letherby (1,500m silver, 300m and 800m bronze).

For the boys, William Bowen-Ashwin grabbed gold in hammer, silver in javelin and a bronze in the shot. The other medallists were Peter Horne (400m silver, 1,500m bronze), Scott Civil (200m bronze) and Alastair Tuck (hammer silver, discus bronze).