by Robbie | Jul 13, 2018 | News
If you are an aspiring 10-year-old athlete and your elder brother is already at 18 the AAA high-hurdles champion and an Olympic competitor, the temptation must surely be to try another event entirely. Having then become Northern junior discus title-holder eight years...
by Robbie | Dec 31, 2017 | News
Amateur athletics rapidly developed in the second half of the 19th Century in the North of England as factory-workers and the emerging middle classes sought respite on their Saturday afternoons off from their jobs in the throes of the Industrial Revolution....
by Robbie | Nov 7, 2017 | News
British field-events athletes were of no great consequence in the 1920s and 1930s, with the notable exceptions of the Liverpool high jumper, Benjamin Howard Baker, and the Cambridge University hammer-thrower, Malcolm Nokes. Even so, one of their contemporaries who was...
by Robbie | Nov 18, 2014 | News
In near perfect conditions for a 10k road race, the Leeds Abbey Dash with a highly stacked elite field again proved to be the UK’s premier 10k with 52 men running under 31 minutes for first time in around 20 years. This year saw a competitive International race, which...