A Community Amateur Sports Club founded in 1889 and based at Tooting Bec Athletics Track

We pride ourselves on being a family club and cater for all standards. We offer coaching, training and competitions in all track and field events, road running, cross-country, indoor athletics and sports hall and welcome athletes of all ages from 11 upwards interested in track and field, road running or cross country races.

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4th June 2012: Open Track & Field Meeting

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13 May 2012

The second Herne Hill Harriers open track & field meeting of the season will take place on Monday, 4th June 2012 at Tooting Bec Athletics Track. The day will begin with the 5,000m at 12:00, finishing after the 400m at 3.50 and will include 5,000m, 3,000m, 100m, high jump and shot club championships.

The event timetable is available for download here.

Further track & field events will be held on the 21st July and the 18th August. Keep an eye on this website for details.

Over 50 medals for HHH athletes at Surrey Champs

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13 May 2012

Herne Hill Harriers enjoyed a very successful Surrey County championships at Kingsmeadow last weekend winning a total of 53 medals (21 golds, 17 silvers and 15 bronze medals) spanning all age groups.

Senior international long jumper Jade Johnson jumped 6.25m as she started her bid to compete in a third Olympic Games to win another County championship, whilst in the under 13 age group there were double wins from talented youngsters Denisha Marshall-Brown (under 13 girls 100m and shot) and Sam Cohen (under 13 boys 800m and high jump).

Katie Snowden and Aisha Naibe Wey both set championship best performances in the under 20 womens age group. Katie celebrated her selection for the Great Britain junior 4 x 400m team at this Sunday's Loughborough International meeting by defeating arch rival Georgia Peel and national indoor champion and HHH HCA member Maddy Austin in the 800m in a time of 2.08.45 and Aisha showed the benefits of an excellent winter by winning the 400m hurdles in 61.42.

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England debut for Cathy Ansell & solid league starts, while some HHH athletes test Olympic Stadium

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13 May 2012

Cathy Ansell made her international debut representing England on Saturday, 5th May and placed 3rd in the Lillebælt Half Marathon in Denmark. The team contest with Denmark and Scotland was 3 men and 3 women with 2 of each to count on cumulative times. Cathy was 2nd English woman in a time of 77 minutes 8 seconds on a course that was hilly (the England team manager estimated it to be worth up to a minute) and the weather was also very cool and windy. Cathy felt the wind slowed her more than the hills, so although just outside her PB this was a very fine run and Cathy felt stronger in this race than when she set her PB winning at Wilmslow at the end of March. Clearly there is much more to come from her at this distance after some shorter distance racing in the coming months.

In league athletics, both our Southern Men's League and National Young Athletes League teams made good starts to our seasons. Now in the top division of the SML, our men placed a close 2nd at Gillingham behind host club Medway & Maidstone and sit 5th of the 16 teams in the early season league table. Our young athletes aquitted themselves very well against strong opposition at Lee Valley and although 4th of the 6th teams, we were much closer to highly ranked Shaftesbury Barnet and Harrow than in the past and will hope to challenge them in the remaining NYAL fixtures this summer.

Also over the bank holiday weekend a small number of HHH athletes were part of the test event at a rather cold Olympic Stadium, as they competed in the British Students (BUCS) champs. However the best HHH performance at the meeting was by an athlete competing in one of the UK Athletics invitation races, as Aisha Naibe-Wey smashed her PB for 400m hurdles, running 60.33 when coming 5th in a high quality race. In the BUCS champs both Dele Onifade (men's 100m) and Hannah Edwards (women's 800m) reached the semi finals, but not finals of events which produced some of the best marks in the UK so far this season despite the less than kind weather conditions.

Geoff Jerwood.

Another big weekend for HHH young athletes

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13 May 2012

Herne Hill Harriers young athletes enjoyed another busy and highly successful weekend on 21st and 22nd April.

Fourteen travelled to Birmingham on Saturday for the Aviva National Sportshall finals where Michella Obijiaku and Kyanne Cornwall were in the winning Surrey Under 15 girls team. Both featured in the winning 4 x 2 lap relay and Michella won the shot put and was second in the all rounders competition. The Surrey bvoys team featuring five Herne hill Harriers was a narrow second beaten by only nine points with Jermaine Graham coming fourth in the all rounders competitions and winning silver in the standing triple jump. Ezkiel Onassanya won the 2 lap race and Anthony was third in the 4 lap race whilst both the relay and paarlauf teams came second.

On Sunday over 60 youngsters from the club took part in the Virgin Money Giving mini marathon and Paul Burgess won the boys 11-12 race for the second year running. Nine other Herne Hill Harriers had top twelve finishes running against the best runners in the 33 London boroughs over the final three miles of the mini marathon course. As well as Paul, Sam Cohen (6th) Sam Wattles (7th ) Shaun Houlden 11th & Tom Singholden 12th in the boys 11-12 race, Merhawi Yemane and Lascelles Hussey were 5th and 7th in the boys 13-14 race and Kate Brown was 9th in the girls 11-12 race & Francecsa Reid Lloyd 11th in the 15-17 girls race.

Steve Bosley.

Namib Desert Challenge 2012

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11 May 2012

Herne Hill Harriers' long distance runners Phillip Henwood and Glen Keegan recently competed in the gruelling Namib Desert Challenge. Below is Phillip's report.

You can see photos from their adventure here

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Summer 2012 Fixture Card

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04 May 2012

The fixture card for the 2012 summer season is now available for download here.

Early season club men's shot record for Michael Wheeler

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13 May 2012

20 year old HHH athlete Michael Wheeler set a new club men's shot record of 15.77m at Rugby at an open meeting timed to celebrate 100 days to go to the start of the Olympic Games. Currently studying at Loughborough University, Michael showed his recovery from an operation which wrote off his 2010 season is going well, as he improved his own record by 12 cm in a low key competition. Such fine early season form bodes well for him this summer.

HHH women sent a small team to Exeter for our first Southern Women's League fixture of the season and although there were very few athletes available to make the long trip those who competed ensured the club were represented with 7th placed team on the day. Event winners from the club were Rebecca Zelic in the A string triple jump and Briony Phillips in the A shot and Jade Phillips in the B shot. With a full team in our remaining fixtures our women will look to climb the league table.

Elsewhere on the roads, Jonathan Stead placed a fine 30th in the Hamburg Marathon in 2.29.19, but was disappointed to be a little outside his personal best, while Eric Dol placed 2nd in the Crawley 12 hour track race, covering 76 miles in the allotted time. His comments were brief, but telling: "Unbelievable day, disgusting weather" and he was the "only person to run every step" throughout the 12 hour period. Full report separate report on this great effort now on this site.

Club women's record for Ros Kieran as first non elite woman in London Marathon

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13 May 2012

Rosalind Kieran produced a fabulous run in the London Marathon to eclipse a HHH women's marathon record set 15 years ago by former club president Clare Pauzers. Ros recorded a superb PB of 2 hours 42 minutes and 48 seconds after setting off determinedly in the first half of the race and prevailing at the finish as the first female finisher from the non elite starts. Ros' time was beaten by less than 10 elite women on the day and she will now hope her great performance will secure an international selection later this year, once she has finished her post marathon break for recuperation and exam sitting.

Accordingly Ros is the HHH club women's champion for 2012, with the men's title going to veteran second claim member Andy Weir, who is first claim for HHH for track racing and nevertheless first club member to complete the course. Andy placed 69th overall of the many thousands of finishers and his 2.31.51 was good for 7th of the over 40 men.

First man in a red and black vest was Jeff Cunningham, whose trip over from Luxembourg where he currently works was made worthwhile with a fine time of 2.34.34.

Other HHH finishers included - with due apologies to any inandvertently missed - Raj Singh 2.37.28, Mohammed Ismail 2.41.19, John Kettle 2.44.59, Jonathan Ratcliffe 2.48.44, Winston Parkinson 2.59.23, Ed Barrow 3.05.19, Katy Yarnall 105th woman 3.07.31, Nikki Sturzaker 3.10.26, Rob Jacobs 2.25.26, Samantha Whiting 3.38.12, Tim Ridley 3.29.20, Sarah Guest 4.06.09, Jilly Dolphin 4.59.57, Andy Lea-Gerrard 6.19.45.

Herne Hill’s Eric Dol amazes with first 12 hour run to cover almost 77 miles

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11 May 2012

Herne Hill’s Eric Dol went to Crawley for his first ever 12-hour race and finished second in an International field with 76.19 miles. Eric says "The toughest section was between 9 hours and 11 when the clock just felt like it was ticking away very, very slowly. My legs didn't really feel much worse than just after the 3-hour mark. The 12- hour finish point came and I put down my marker on the track so my final distance could be measured. I realised that the winner was standing still just staring at his marker. I asked him if he was all right and he told me he couldn't bend down! I put his marker down for him.

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HHH young athletes excel both indoors and out

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27 April 2012

Herne Hill Harriers young athletes enjoyed a busy and highly successful weekend. Fourteen travelled to Birmingham on Saturday for the Aviva National Sportshall finals where Michella Obijiaku and Kyanne Cornwall were in the winning Surrey Under 15 girls team. Both featured in the winning 4 x 2 lap relay and Michella won the shot put and was second in the all rounders competition. The Surrey bvoys team featuring five Herne hill Harriers was a narrow second beaten by only nine points with Jermaine Graham coming fourth in the all rounders competitions and winning silver in the standing triple jump. Ezekiel Onassanya won the 2 lap race and Anthony was third in the 4 lap race whilst both the relay and paarlauf teams came second.

On Sunday over 60 youngsters from the club took part in the Virgin Money Giving mini marathon and Paul Burgess won the boys 11-12 race for the second year running. Nine other Herne Hill Harriers had top twelve finishes running against the best runners in the 33 London boroughs over the final three miles of the mini marathon course. As well as Paul, Sam Cohen (6th) Sam Wattles (7th ) Shaun Houlden 11th & Tom Singholden 12th in the boys 11-12 race, Merhawi Yemane and Lascelles Hussey were 5th and 7th in the boys 13-14 race and Kate Brown was 9th in the girls 11-12 race & Francecsa Reid Lloyd 11th in the 15-17 girls race.

Steve Bosley.

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