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Club Affiliation for Northern Athletics Your Club is requested to formally confirm that it is affiliating to Northern Athletics by sending an e-mail to Judith Temperton: [email protected] 186 clubs have done that already and we thank you for your...

Harry Barker was one of the least successful British Olympic athletes in history. After all, you really cannot do much worse than fail to finish in a heat in which there were only two starters. Yet it would be a pity if it is that one debacle for which he is solely...

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....

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...

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 10.44 10.54 60m...

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,...

Rex Whitworth’s athletics background was unique among the Great Britain team members in Paris for the match with France on Sunday 2 September 1945 – six years, almost exactly to the day, since the fixture was supposed to have taken place but was then delayed somewhat...

An English Championships was held during the 1920s with the primary intention of bolstering the field events which were then so shamefully neglected. Unfortunately, the brave venture was ill-supported and short-lived, lasting only from 1923 to 1925, but there is an...

The early 1930s was not a vintage era for British sprinting. Harry Edward, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell, all of them great champions and Olympic medal-winners of the 1920s, were long retired. So far as Jack London and Walter Rangeley, the Olympic silver-medallists...