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 | Dec 19, 2017 | News
Venta de Banos, Spain 16th December 2017 Vento de Baños international cross, following a mammoth but on time journey to the sleepy Mid country Spanish town that is Vento de Baños the NA party arrived very late therefore bedded down for the evening. The following...
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 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 | Sep 4, 2017 | News
The Blaydon racer lost to history in dark blue shadows A brief account of a forgotten World record Brendan Foster wasn’t the first athletics World record-holder from the North East when he ran his 7:35.2 for 3000 metres at the Gateshead Stadium on 3 August 1974 – not...
