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Herne Hill Athletes Help with Surrey Super Saturday

The weekend saw the 2025 edition of the UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championship at Wollaton Hall Park in Nottingham, with the Surrey team enjoying their version of Super Saturday as they brought home an impressive array of medals. Their county squad – selected from several clubs – were gold medal winners in six of […]

Strong Road 10km debut for Phoebe Anderson in Spain 

Herne Hill Harriers’ Phoebe Anderson travelled to Valencia to run her first race since being crowned as European under 23 women’s cross-country champion in December and produced an impressive performance in her road 10km debut on Sunday. The 22-year-old Putney resident finished an excellent 18th in a world class women’s field at the Castellon 10km, […]

Last Gasp Surrey Cross League Title for Herne Hill Boys

The final fixture of the Surrey Cross-Country League was held on a gloomy Saturday afternoon on the Epsom Downs racecourse. The six races through the age groups featured strong performances from Herne Hill Harriers, with the highlight being a dramatic last day win for the under 13 boys’ team to claim the league title.  The boys went […]

Southern indoor gold for Lily-Rose Brown

Lily-Rose Brown took centre stage by winning a South of England indoor gold medal at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre on Sunday 2nd February. Brown, 16, who now competes in the U20 women’s category rounded off a busy day with heat, semi-final and final in the best way by taking the 200m win in 25.15 […]

Herne Hill Boys Strike Surrey Gold in Lloyd Park

On Saturday 4th January in Croydon, the 2025 edition of the Surrey County Cross-Country Championship was hosted over Lloyd Park’s rolling hills and boggy valleys, including some frozen ground on sections of the challenging lap. Over 900 athletes were entered across ten races of between two and seven-and-a-half miles, kicking off with under-13s, and culminating in the senior […]

Two P’s in a Pod – Poppy & Phoebe in GB Team for Euro Cross

Herne Hill Harriers are celebrating their latest female distance-running internationals after Poppy Craig-McFeely and Phoebe Anderson were both selected for the Great Britain team for the European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey on Sunday, December 8. Like most of the country, Liverpool’s Sefton Park saw very inclement weather due to Storm Bert over the […]

London Gold and Silver for Lucy and Sophie as Herne Hill claim 2nd team award 

A relatively mild Saturday saw the 2024 LondonCross Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields, over the same iconic undulating terrain which will be the scene of this season’s English National Cross-Country Championships in February 2025.  For the second successive Saturday the Herne Hill Harriers women’s A team were second, and men’s A team placed fifth in […]

Lucy leads the Herne Hill Surrey League charge in Beckenham

Despite grey skies, the autumn leaves provided a stunning backdrop as Herne Hill Harriers showed up in force with 17 women and 36 men finishers in the second Surrey Cross Country League fixture of the season in Beckenham Place Park on Saturday afternoon.  This strong numerical turnout was backed up by excellent individual and team results. The […]

HHH women are Southern Cross Relay champions!

Following on from the epic team win that made club history with their first National Road Relay Championships success a fortnight ago, the senior women from Herne Hill Harriers went to Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday determined to add the title of South of England Cross Country Relay champions to their early season portfolio. The main […]

Georgie Leeds the way at Abbey Dash

Photo: Graham Smith For the second successive weekend Herne Hill Harriers World Cross Country Championships athlete Georgie Grgec produced a road racing performance of the highest quality as her reputation as one of the best competitors on the domestic scene continues to grow. Grgec took the win in the elite women’s race at the Leeds […]