Tooting Bec Athletics Track – We did it!!
Now it is a done deal…. the final hurdle was cleared on Monday 6th December at the Wandsworth Council Executive meeting. All good to go…… Wandsworth Council committee approval was given for funding of the resurfacing of Tooting Bec Athletics Track on Thursday 25th November. Once this recommendation has been endorsed by the Council Executive […]
Herne Hill men 4th & women 5th in South of Thames Cross Country Races
Herne Hill Harriers had a smaller than usual turnout on the men’s side for this year’s historic South of Thames Cross Country Association Championship races, which gave the women from the club the opportunity to for the first time ever in a championship race field more female athletes in number than their male colleagues could […]
Top weekend results for Herne Hill athletes at home and abroad
Although not contesting any club team league competitions over the weekend, athletes from Herne Hill Harriers were nevertheless in evidence achieving strong performances in road races, cross country and indoor track and field events both domestically and abroad, the latter in Spain, Portugal, Northern Ireland and the USA, with personal best times recorded in the overseas […]
Phoebe Anderson lands GB slot for the European Cross Country Championships
Phoebe Anderson has been selected for the Great Britain Juniors team for the European Cross Country Championships in Dublin on December 12. Anderson secured her automatic place in the team by finishing fourth in the U20 women’s race at the British Athletics Cross Challenge and European Trials meet on Saturday at a very windy Sefton […]
National Cross Country Relays Team Silver Medals for Herne Hill Boys
After a year of no national cross country championships due to Covid restrictions, Herne Hill Harriers were able to resume their usual strong attendance and representation at the English Cross Country Relays in a very windy Berry Hill Park in Mansfield on Saturday. This event is always a festival of the highest level of club […]
Herne Hill teams prominent in cross country relays at Wormwood Scrubs and Guildford
Club team athletics competition over the weekend offered mainly cross country relays championships, with Herne Hill Harriers senior and under 20s at the South of England event at Wormwood Scrubs and the younger runners at the Surrey Championship at Stoke Park in Guildford. On the fields adjacent to the Linford Christie Athletics Stadium in West […]
Top ten National relays finishes for Herne Hill young athletes teams and Surrey Masters medals for the not so young
It was a weekend of cross country and road running highlights for the oldest and the youngest among the Herne Hill Harriers membership. Saturday saw both the English National Road Relay Championship in Sutton Coldfield and the Surrey County Masters Cross Country Championship in Nonsuch Park. Herne Hill Harriers youngsters travelled to the National road relays […]
Strong Herne Hill London Marathon turnout and a Cross Country Team Win
After a hiatus of 18 months, the Virgin Money London Marathon returned as a mass event with more than 40,000 runners taking to the streets of the city to complete the 26.2 miles between Blackheath/Greenwich and The Mall. Among these and figuring quite prominently among the field was a good number of Herne Hill Harriers, […]
Katie Snowden polishing off a Diamond season in Switzerland
Herne Hill Harriers 1,500m Olympian Katie Snowden was last Thursday back in top level racing action for the first time since her Tokyo personal best performances which saw her reach the semi finals in Japan at the start of the month. Balham local Snowden competed in the women’s 1,500m placing eighth in a world class […]
Another club U20 5000m record for Phoebe Anderson
Wednesday 18th August saw another stunning result for a Herne Hill Harriers female athlete this summer as at the Manchester International meeting at Sport City on the Etihad Campus Phoebe Anderson ran a big 5000m PB time of 16:18.75. This performance is the second fastest track 5000m run by a woman of any age in the history of the club […]