by Robbie | Feb 2, 2018 | News
With the splendid backdrop of Harewood House, Morpeth did the senior double, the first time ever, through Carl Avery and Mhairi MacLennan ,whilst Sale beat Leeds City for the men’s team race. However, Leeds narrowly reversed the result in the women’s race. The age...
by Robbie | Feb 1, 2018 | News
Britain’s fastest middle-distance runner for almost 40 years from the 1880s onwards was a Lancastrian. Francis John Kynaston Cross, known familiarly as “Frank”, had been born in Eccles, which was then in Lancashire and is now part of Greater Manchester, on 14 November...
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 | Oct 20, 2017 | News
Sam Ferris and Ernie Harper are understandably the best remembered British marathon runners of the 1920s and 1930s. Both of them were Olympic silver-medallists. Yet neither won as many marathons as did the much lesser known Harold Wood, who raced the distance on 29...
by Robbie | Sep 18, 2017 | News
Combined Autumn Relays at Sportcity, Saturday 16th September 2017 Women’s 4-Stage: Leg 1: Some 5 minutes after the men’s start, 83 women lined up on their first leg. Laura Hesketh, Clayton, was first home in a time of 20.26, some 26 seconds ahead of...
