Butler brings home shared Volunteer Award
Although they are from rival clubs, Angus Butler of Herne Hill Harriers and Steve Gardner of Belgrave Harriers became the joint winners of the first Athletics & Running @Home Volunteer Award for London at last week’s England Athletics Regional virtual presentation evening. The pair collaborated to pioneer a virtual racing format during the first lockdown […]
Last track hurrah at the HHH Hallowe’en Meeting in Battersea Park
Herne Hill Harriers squeezed in one final open track meeting before the new government restrictions come into force to stop grassroots sport for the time being with their Hallowe’en Endurance Meeting in Battersea Park on Saturday 31st October. More than 200 athletes competed across 24 separate track races, 10 were 800m, 7 were 1500m and […]
Cross Country Team Win for Herne Hill Boys and another for our women in Lloyd Park
With the pandemic continuing to present challenges for athletics competition providers it was last weekend the turn of cross country to return in a revised form to meet social distancing guidelines. The venue for the first England Athletics pilot cross country races was Lloyd Park in Croydon on an afternoon of strong winds and occasional horizontal rain and […]
Fast 3000m for Georgie at Bromley and PBs for Our Young Athletes
The track season continues into October as outside events in parks and on common land still present potential problems while pandemic restrictions are in force and Herne Hill Harriers athletes were in action over the weekend at the South London Harriers Middle Distance Race Fest at Coulsdon on Saturday and at the London Hurdles and Middle Distance […]
Kristal goes faster at Doha Diamond League finale
A week after racing to the top of the UK women’s 200m rankings for this year, Herne Hill Harriers record holding sprinter Kristal Awuah signed off her short, but speedy outdoor season with a superb fourth place in the women’s 100m at the final World Athletics Wanda Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday. Racing athletes […]
Kristal top of uk 200m rankings with HHH women’s record
Streatham sprinter Kristal Awuah sped to the top of the UK women’s 200m rankings for 2020 over the weekend as she broke her own Herne Hill Harriers club senior women’s record with her clocking of 23.20 seconds. Racing at the Gouden Spike meeting in Leiden in the Netherlands on Saturday against an unhelpful -1.2 metres […]
Awuah, Crowther and Snowden Top 10 in UK
Herne Hill Harriers’ Kristal Awuah and Katie Snowden followed up their medal winning performances at the British Championship as each squeezed some more races into last week taking opportunities in this truncated athletics season. British 100m silver medalist Awuah jetted off to Europe in pursuit of improving on her fastest time at this distance. Her […]
National Medals for Awuah and Snowden and a Herne Hill record for Millard
Three female athletes from Herne Hill Harriers enjoyed a successful Muller British Athletics Championship which was held in Manchester over the weekend behind closed doors as the governing body’s hard work in making the meeting happen was rewarded with some exciting competition with some BBC TV coverage. Harriers’ athletes between them won superb silver and bronze […]
Another step forward for Snowden in Sweden
For the third week in succession Katie Snowden stepped up another level and again upped her game as she this time placed third in the women’s 1500m on an international stage at the Folksam Grand Prix meeting in Gothenburg on Saturday evening. At an event featuring a number of highly ranked British athletes among others, […]
Another strong performance for Snowden as her track comeback rolls on
Balham based international athletics star Katie Snowden’s track racing return from injury continued apace at the Bromley Twilight Meeting on Friday evening in Norman Park with a very close second place in strong women’s A 800m race in a fast time of 2:02.40. Very windy conditions and athletes making their seasonal debuts at the distance led to […]