by Robbie | Nov 12, 2017 | News
The Annual Open meeting at Longford Park in Manchester yesterday the 11th November 2017 was yet again a very well attended meeting with the main part of the agenda being the issue of funding for Northern Athletics following the failure of England Athletics to commit...
by Robbie | Oct 31, 2017 | News
On behalf of the Northern Athletics Board please find our *booklet prepared in support of our proposals for Northern Athletics to be funded by the athletes of the North. The booklet hopefully explains in detail the history behind these decisions, the reasoning for...
by Robbie | Oct 30, 2017 | News
The Annual Open Meeting of Northern Athletics will be held on Saturday 11th November 2017 at ‘The Longfords’, Longford Park Athletics Stadium, Stretford, Manchester M21 9TA at 11.00am. A buffet lunch will be served at approximately 1.00pm followed by the North of...
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 | Oct 10, 2017 | News
The most famous Olympic marathon of all is that of 1908 in London, in which the Italian, Dorando Pietri, was disqualified after passing the finishing-line and victory went instead to Johnny Hayes, of the USA. Another feature of this race was the failure of the large...
