by Robbie | Dec 19, 2017 | News
Alice Woods was one of the pioneering spirits of organised British women’s athletics and won one of the very first sprint events to be contested after the end of World War I. Her time of 11.4sec for 80 yards was of no significance, but she was to achieve rather...
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...