Surrey Track & Field Medals Galore for Herne Hill and an upcoming GB international debut for Brown
The weekend saw the Surrey county track and field championship at Kingsmeadow stadium with four seasons of weather in one day on Saturday and then bright warm sunshine throughout Sunday. Herne Hill Harriers athletes across all the age groups from under 13 to seniors amassed a total medals tally of 41. These comprised 15 gold, 13 […]
Championship and club records for Michaela Obijiaku in the USA
Herne Hill Harriers female athletes continue their excellent year both at home and abroad, as hot on the heels of the successes of the women’s road relay national silver medals and Charlotte Alexander at home and Chloe Tighe in Australia, USA collegiate club member Michaela Obijiaku has also been busy setting new standards in the […]
Snowden Leads Herne Hill to National Road Relays Silver Medals while Tighe is champion Down Under
Herne Hill Harriers club women’s teams arrived at the National Road Relays Championship at Sutton Coldfield on Saturday with new confidence as the recently crowned South of England Champions. However this was to be another step up in quality as this is an event that is one of the biggest distance racing days on the […]
Herne Hill Junior Alexander takes on the world and Masters Athlete Long beats the world
Another week and another Herne Hill Harriers young athlete is in the spotlight wearing an international vest. This time it was at a major global championship event as Charlotte Alexander took on the World Cross Country Championship in Aarhus, Denmark and raced superbly as the youngest member of the Great Britain team in the Junior […]
Brilliant runs by Jacob Taylor and Olivia Stillman at English Schools’ Cross Country Championships in Leeds
It is difficult to know what Capability Brown, who landscaped the gardens that adjoin the magnificent Tudor-Jacobean House that towered over the course at Temple Newsam in Leeds would have made of the trampling of the estate by hundreds of English Schools’ Cross Country Championship competitors. It should not have come as a shock […]
Alexander qualifies for GB Juniors World Cross team in Loughborough, National Masters team medals in Belfast and Big Half PBs in London
Charlotte Alexander made her mark among the best under 20 cross country women in the UK as the Herne Hill Harrier placed a superb sixth on Saturday at the CAU Inter Counties and GB Trials for the World Cross Country Championship. Still actually in the under 17 age group, Alexander opted to contest the older […]
Streatham Girl Kristal sparkles at the European Indoor Championship in Glasgow!
Streatham based Kristal Awuah is Herne Hill Harriers rising sprint star whose ascent could see her hit the roof if she climbs at a rate any quicker than she has done so far in 2019. Still only 19 years old, Awuah in her first senior competitions has claimed a National bronze medal at 60m […]
HHH Women miss out in valiant late charge for Surrey League title
On most weekends other than Kristal’s big one, the high level exploits of the Herne Hill women’s cross country team, fast establishing themselves as one of the best in the South of England or potentially further afield, would have made very impressive lead headlines of their own. Herne Hill got off to a slow start in […]
Track runner de Mauny wins Brighton Half Marathon
Better known as a track runner, Herne Hill Harriers middle distance star Fiona de Mauny became a longer distance star too last Sunday when winning the women’s race at the Grand Brighton Half Marathon. Track specialist de Mauny demonstrated superb road racing form as she sliced nearly five minutes from her previous official best […]
National Indoor age group champs medals for Lakeisha and Dante
While Kristal Awuah has been setting the pace indoors over 60m her club mate and training partner Lakeisha Owusu-Junior set new PBs when finishing second in the junior womens 60m at the National Indoor U20/17/15 championships in Sheffield last weekend. Lakeisha, the Southern junior 60m champion ran superbly to record 7.55 seconds – a time […]