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North of England Road Relay & 5K Results
Final Results for the Northern 12 and 6 Stage Relays and Young Athletes 5K Road Championships are now available. If you have any queries please contact us. A race report will be published asap. Event photographs will be posted on our Facebook page. Men's 12 Stage...
read more12/6 & 5K Competitor Information & Maps
Entries for the North of England Men's 12 Stage, Women's 6 Stage and U17 & U15 5K Road races close on Friday 15th March. To enter please go to www.race-results.co.uk Information for competitors can be found on the links below Competitor information...
read moreNational XC Report – Harewood House Leeds
Last weekend’s National Cross Country at the superb setting of Harewood House (Leeds) provided entertainment, drama and even the opportunity for some athletes and spectators to get an early season suntan. The challenging course with the backdrop of the beautiful...
read moreCharlie Harper, “Champion Sprinter of England” and an FA Cup winning trainer
Bob Philips has submitted this interesting historical article about Charlie Harper, a professional sprinter from the turn of the century Harper final text
read moreAffiliated Clubs – latest update
The March update of clubs affiliated to Northern Athletics. Affiliated Clubs 1st March 2019 Numbers are still increasing with more clubs coming on board in the run up to the 12 & 6 Stage Road Relays at the end of March. Any clubs requiring further info on...
read moreGreat Day for Leeds City & the North
Leeds City took the major team honours in both the Senior Men's and Women's events at the ECCA National Cross Country Championships at Harewood House over the weekend. An absolutely wonderful day of racing was concluded by the Leeds City men taking the final team...
read moreNA joins NECAA for 10K Track Championship
NORTH EAST COUNTIES TO HOST NA 10,000m CHAMPIONSHIPS Northern Athletics are pleased to announce a collaboration with the North East Counties which will re-instate the Northern 10K track championship within the North East Counties event on the 24th April. After it’s...
read moreNorthern Athletics Indoor T&F Championship Best Performances – Feb. 2019
Indoor CBP - Feb 2019 Updated Championship Best Performance lists following the 2019 Indoor Track & Field Championships
read moreNA Outdoor T&F Officials’ appointments
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read moreNorthern Cross Country team travels to Belgium Cross Cup
On 09/02/19 The Northern Cross Country team travelled to Rotselaar for the Belgium Cross Cup. The women were proudly represented by Lori Marshall, Nicola Devine, Jemima Elgood and Natasha Hatswell. The men fielded a strong team of Dejene Gezemu, James Douglas, Daniel...
read moreRoad Relay event page
https://www.northernathletics.co.uk/events/na-12-6-stage-road-relay-championships-u17-15k-road-race/Prospectus and online entry now available
read moreNorthern U15/U13 Indoor Championships Report
Increased entry numbers this year meant that the stands at EIS were filling up early for the 2019 U15/U13 Indoor Championships and the atmosphere was buzzing with excited young athletes gearing up for a day of great competition. For many this was their first visit to...
read moreGreat day of cross country running at Pontefract
In horse racing terms the going at Pontefract Racecourse would have been described as 'good' which certainly proved an advantage to the 10 newly-crowned Northern Athletics cross-country champions. After an absence of seven years, the Start Fitness-supported...
read moreAffiliation Update
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...
read moreNine CPB at Indoor Championships
An exciting weekend of competition saw new Championship Best Performances figures in an amazing nine events heralding it an overwhelming success for the first track & field competition since the launch of the Northern Athletics affiliation scheme. The fantastic...
read moreGreat Stirling XC – Saturday 12th Jan 2019 – Race Report
Another great race weekend for the North of England. Taking 12 athletes to compete as guests of Scottish Athletics in their inter district XC. With stern competition from the North, East, and West of Scotland and Scottish Universities the North of England faired well...
read moreRemembering a neglected Salford Olympian: Harry Barker’s story
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...
read moreThe parson and the policemen: Northern pioneers of 19th Century hammer-throwing
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....
read moreMark 10.3 for the Flying Officer, taking off along the super-fast people’s runway
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...
read moreTIMETABLE: North of England Senior/U20/U17 Indoor T&F Championships
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...
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