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 25, 2017 | News
Lewis Payne was the winner of the International Cross-Country Championship in 1927 and died in 2008 at the age of 100. Yet despite his long life he remains one of the least known of Britain’s athletics title-holders of the 20th Century. He was only 19 years old...
by Robbie | Nov 20, 2017 | News
This year, the NA 10 Mile Road Championship returned to the ever popular Brampton to Carlisle event. The 66th hosting of this event dawned with blue sky above and frost on the ground, on Sunday 19th November. With almost 600 runners, the narrow road start in Brampton...
by Robbie | Oct 24, 2017 | News
Lincoln Wellington were once again the top act as far as the senior competitions were concerned at the Northern Athletics Cross-Country Relay Championships held at a wind-swept Graves Park, Sheffield. The men’s quartet of Joe Wilkinson, Tom Straw, Shane Robinson...
by Robbie | Mar 26, 2017 | News
Of the 76 teams entered, 69 times lined up for David Brown to start stage 1 promptly at 12:00 in bright sunshine. The first leg for the men is a long leg and it was Liverpool Harriers’ Dejene Gezimu who crossed the line first, in what turned out to be the...
