by Matthew Wood | Sep 26, 2018 | News
Men The roar wasn’t quite as deafening as when Manchester City knock in another goal but when it came over the tannoy could a Lincoln Wellington representative come forward and collect the medals for the first B team home in the Northern Athletics senior...
by Robbie | Feb 21, 2018 | News
“Everything was right about him, as if he was running on air” When I went to interview one of the sons of Walter Rangeley some 16 years or so ago in the course of research for a biography which I was preparing of the 1936 Olympic 4 x 400 metres gold-medallist, Bill...
by Robbie | Nov 3, 2017 | News
Why is there no biography of the most eminent British athlete among his contemporaries of the 1920s – Douglas Lowe ? And why is so little known about what were long believed to be his Mancunian origins ? Lowe, born on 7 August 1902, won the Olympic 800 metres in 1924...
by Robbie | Aug 17, 2015 | News
The impressive new Middlesbrough Sports Village hosted the largest athletics competition the town has seen in the last 30 years at the weekend. The last time the Northern championships were held in Middlesbrough was 1984 when the senior men’s competition was held with...
