by Robbie | Nov 16, 2017 | News
Memories of Steve Backley, Mick Hill, Fatima Whitbread and Tessa Sanderson over the last 30 years or so cloud the fact that javelin-throwing in Britain was very much one of the poor relations of the sport in earlier times, and even more so than most of the field...
by Robbie | Nov 12, 2017 | News
The Annual Open meeting at Longford Park in Manchester yesterday the 11th November 2017 was yet again a very well attended meeting with the main part of the agenda being the issue of funding for Northern Athletics following the failure of England Athletics to commit...
by Robbie | Nov 10, 2017 | News
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...
by Robbie | Nov 7, 2017 | News
British field-events athletes were of no great consequence in the 1920s and 1930s, with the notable exceptions of the Liverpool high jumper, Benjamin Howard Baker, and the Cambridge University hammer-thrower, Malcolm Nokes. Even so, one of their contemporaries who was...
by Robbie | Nov 6, 2017 | News
On a chilly autumnal Sunday morning in perfect racing condition we saw an amazing performance from Eilish McColgan kick starting her season defending her Age UK Leeds Abbey Dash title with a a new course of 32.05, eclipsing Jill Boltz (nee Hunter) 1990 record of...
