FIVE Jersey athletes – more than ever before – have been named in the top UK rankings.

Commonwealth Games-bound Lauren Thérin and Simon Phelan plus Peter Irving, Jo McGarry and 16-year-old Jason Fox are in the recently-published list of the best of British senior track and field performers.

Thérin is tenth in the overall rankings for the discus – and the top Under-20 junior – for her throw of 47.25m this summer while Phelan’s high jump of 2.10m puts him third in the junior table and 11th in the senior listings alongside the legendary Dalton Grant.

Fox became only the third Jersey high-jumper ever to clear 2m in 2005 and this pushed him into sixth place in his Under-17 age group.

It also sneaked him into the top 50 of all British jumpers.

Senior athlete Irving is in the top 50 for the 400m hurdles and McGarry comes in at 28th for her 5000m time of 16 min 35.32 sec.

All-rounder Thérin is also ranked fourth in the junior javelin and sixth in the shot for the top junior Under-20 age group.

They were achievements which brought high praise from Jersey’s athletics development officer Andrew Winnie.

‘To get five in the top 50 is the best we’ve ever done,’ he said.

‘They’ve all done brilliantly.

Lauren and Simon are both under 20 so it’s a great achievement.

And for Jason to get there is superb – not many under-17s get in the top 50.

‘We’ve got some very, very good athletes coming through, especially five or six under-17 girls, and the CI Athletics Club should be winning things this season – we’ll surprise a few people.’ Remarkably there are three Jersey placings, including Fox, in the Under-17 male category.

Top throwing prospect Jamie Stevenson is fourth in the discus with a distance of 47.28m and the shot (16.43m).

And Stevenson remains in this age group for another season.

Paul Dingle, despite a series of injuries, still found the class to produce a triple jump of 13.89m at the Shetland Island Games which puts him fifth in the age group.

There was an unusual blank in the Under-15 age groups with several of the better Jersey athletes in the first year of the group.

However Kathryn Rothwell had a season to remember in the Under 13s, finishing second with her shot putt of 9.93m and third in discus with a throw of 29.57m.

Lucy Crossman snatched the Under-13 girls Jersey Spartan high jump record during the year with a leap of 1.52m which puts her eighth in her national age group.

In the same age group Sam Dawkins, despite battling against injury, clocked 14.13 sec in the 80m hurdles to grab ninth spot in the country – Jersey’s only track ranking.

Meanwhile Jersey’s masters also excelled with the perennial Carole Derrien, now in the W65 category, leading the way.

She claimed second in discus (21.93m), hammer (27.62m) and weight throw (10.41m).

Catarina Hallden placed third with 9.71m in the W35 weight and Fiona Carry achieved her reward for her dedication to pole vault with a best of 2.30m to be placed third in the W40 category.

And Sue Le Ruez’s London Marathon run of 3 hrs 18 min 51 sec placed her fourth out of all British women over-50 runners.