by Matthew Wood | Jan 31, 2019 | News
The Reverend Edmund Baddeley, Vicar in the village of Starkholmes, in the Derbyshire Dales, would seem to be an unlikely champion of English hammer-throwing in the 19th Century, but on Saturday 1 July 1882 he won the Amateur Athletic Association title in that event....
by Matthew Wood | Jan 31, 2019 | News
Mark 10.3 for the Flying Officer, taking off along the super-fast people’s runway Roy Sandstrom’s memories of a British 100 metres record of 1956 Through to the 1950s British sprinters had made a habit over the years of finding unexpected yards of extra speed when...
by Matthew Wood | Jan 7, 2019 | News
Downloadable versions SATURDAY – DAY ONE CLICK HERE SUNDAY – DAY TWO CLICK HERE Saturday 12th January 2019 Event No. Call Room Start Time Event Age Group and Gender Stage T1 10.20 10.30 60m Hurdles U17 Women Heats T2 10.26 10.46 60m Hurdles SW Heats T3...
by Matthew Wood | Jan 2, 2019 | News
Why did the British selectors of the 1930s persistently ignore the No.1 high jumper and No.2 pole vaulter, John Dodd? Introduction: Various theories have been put forward for the origins of the pole vault, and Ian Tempest, the eminent York-based athletics historian,...
by northernath | Jan 2, 2019 | News
Daley Thompson is, of course, the first and only Briton to have won an Olympic decathlon gold medal, but he is not the first male member of a British club to claim a title at the Games in an all-round event. The long forgotten latter honour was achieved in 1906, and...