Two golds and a silver for Herne Hill athletes at England U15 Champs
A small group of Herne Hill Harriers young athletes travelled up to the England Athletics Under 15/Under 17 Championship at SportCity in Manchester over the weekend. Of the four who competed three between them brought home two gold medals and a silver against the best in the country in their age groups. Both of the Harriers gold […]
Blue plaque honours GB Olympic past as Herne Hill Olympian calls to protect future by saving local track
As the Tokyo Olympics gets fully underway on Saturday, 24th July, in a quiet suburban road in Tooting, south west London, an outstanding GB athlete of just over 100 years ago will be celebrated with a historic blue plaque on the house where he lived. Albert Hill was 31 year old railway worker who went […]
European U23 Bronze for Kristal and English Schools Gold for Keeran
Herne Hill Harriers sprinter Kristal Awuah claimed a bronze medal in the final of the women’s 100m at the European Under 23 Championship in Tallinn last Friday, while in the younger age groups six athletes from the club placed in the top five in the country in their events at the English Schools Athletics Association […]
Big breakthrough USA race win for Katie Snowden
Katie Snowden produced a storming victory in the USA at the Sound Running Track Meet in Irvine, California on Saturday May 15th. The 27-year-old Herne Hill Harrier finished strongly for her biggest win to date in the women’s 1500m race, in the process securing her target of achieving well inside the Olympic Qualifying Time as she took […]
Ore goes long again with another big leap in Texas
Balham long and triple jumper Ore Adamson continued her strong US collegiate competition season with another big leap at College Station in Texas at the prestigious Alumni Muster meet on Saturday to follow up on her recent UK ranking performances. After her 6.25m at San Antonio in mid April was aided by a following wind […]
European Junior Championship Qualifying Time for Charlotte
Wednesday 21st April saw another excellent early season Covid secure track meeting hosted by Birmingham University and the British Milers Club with some very high quality events featuring some of the faster middle distance athletes in the UK. Herne Hill’s top Under 20 Charlotte Alexander followed up her opening track and road 5000m performances with another […]
Strong Herne Hill team results in Wimbledon road race
Sunday morning saw the return of local athletics club competition with the Wimbledon Park 5km team road race that started and finished on the track in the park and was routed onto the adjacent roads and footpaths. Herne Hill Harriers fielded one men’s team of ten and two women’s teams each of six, with the […]
Alexander the Great Harrier on road and track
Wednesday 31st March saw the very first non elite athletics meeting of 2021 as local clubs Belgrave Harriers and Herne Hill Harriers combined to host an evening of 5000m track races in Battersea Park. There were some top performances from Herne Hill athletes in the eight races at the Comeback 5000, with pride of place […]
Snowden named in GB team for European Indoor Champs in Poland
European Indoor Qualifying Time for Snowden in Manchester
With the majority of grassroots sports competition being on hold so far this year as a result of the national lockdown, there was a rare opportunity for some athletes with elite exemptions to race over the weekend as one or two small Covid secure indoor events were organised to provide athletes at a certain level with […]