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Northern Athletics Funding Booklet

On behalf of the Northern Athletics Board please find our *booklet prepared in support of our proposals for Northern Athletics to be funded by the athletes of the North.  The booklet hopefully explains in detail the history behind these decisions, the reasoning for...

NA Annual Open Meeting 2017

The Annual Open Meeting of Northern Athletics will be held on Saturday 11th November 2017 at ‘The Longfords’, Longford Park Athletics Stadium, Stretford, Manchester M21 9TA at 11.00am. A buffet lunch will be served at approximately 1.00pm followed by the North of...
Lincoln Wellington the top act at NA cross country relays

Lincoln Wellington the top act at NA cross country relays

Lincoln Wellington were once again the top act as far as the senior competitions were concerned at the Northern Athletics Cross-Country Relay Championships held at a wind-swept Graves Park, Sheffield. The men’s quartet of Joe Wilkinson, Tom Straw, Shane Robinson...

Margaret Watson

Recently NECAA lost one of its most popular and experienced officials. Margaret Watson in her 80th year, passed away on Wednesday October 11th after a short illness. Margaret became an UKA official in 1989, and car lifts allowing was present week in week out...

Harold Wood, Wigan miner, World-ranked marathon runner

Sam Ferris and Ernie Harper are understandably the best remembered British marathon runners of the 1920s and 1930s. Both of them were Olympic silver-medallists. Yet neither won as many marathons as did the much lesser known Harold Wood, who raced the distance on 29...