Successful launch of Tooting Run Club under the auspices of Herne Hill Harriers
In addition to its core activities of track & field, road and cross country training and competition, Herne Hill Harriers also boasts a proud record of community outreach. Its latest initiative is “Tooting Run Club” which was launched on Tooting Common on 28 March. Club President Glen Keegan says “Tooting Run Club is a community […]
Yasmin Marghini records huge PB in California
Yasmin Marghini produced an outstanding 5,000m performance at the Stanford Invitational track and field meet in California last weekend, writes Geoff Jerwood. She placed eighth in the second heat against a field of international standard competitors and recorded a huge PB of 16:07.23, an improvement of more than 31 seconds. Marghini moves up to ninth […]
Herne Hill dig deep at Southern Road Relays
Sunday saw the return of the South of England Road Relay Champs at Milton Keynes for the first time since 2019 due to the unprecedented circumstances of the past 2 years. The men alternated 6 long stages of around 8.7km with 6 short legs of roughly 5km, while the women ran 4 short and 2 […]
Ore Adamson long jumps best year to date mark at Texas meet
Although it isn’t quite yet time for the clocks to move forward an hour in the UK, the USA collegiate outdoor track and field season is already under way, writes Geoff Jerwood. The first of Herne Hill Harriers’ student athletes in the States to compete was long and triple jumper Ore Adamson who opened her […]
Sensational silver for Saskia at World Universities Cross Championships
Saskia Millard claimed a silver medal at the FISU World University Cross Country Championships in Aveiro, Portugal and Tokyo Olympian Katie Snowden put on her racing shoes for the first time in 2022 to reclaim the women’s course record at the Dulwich parkrun. Representing a strong Great Britain Students team, Millard (pictured above) placed second […]
Georgie Grgec makes light work of Surrey League Cross finale
Herne Hill Harriers had one individual race winner and two age group teams crowned as champions in the final Surrey Cross Country League fixture at Lloyd Park, writes Geoff Jerwood. It was a fixture rearranged at short notice after the originally scheduled event was cancelled due to Storm Eunice. With nearly all of the divisional […]
Club launches mentoring scheme
The Club has launched an innovative mentoring scheme, initially on a one year pilot basis. Nine of our senior women female distance athletes, a number of whom have been with the Club since their early teens and all have been active in sport from an early age, have volunteered to be mentors to nine of […]
Anderson and Marghini star in US College Indoor Track
On a weekend when domestic athletics was dominated by national indoor track and outdoor cross country championships, the two stand out performances from Herne Hill Harriers runners were seen in the USA on the collegiate indoor track and field circuit. On Saturday under 23 students Phoebe Anderson and Yasmin Marghini both improved on their already […]
Saskia Millard is BUCS Indoor Women’s 3,000m champion
Saskia Millard was crowned as the British Universities and Colleges Sports (BUCS) Indoor Women’s 3,000m champion on Sunday at their annual indoor track and field championship at Sheffield’s English Institute of Sport, writes Geoff Jerwood. Racing for a strong Birmingham University squad, Millard claimed a gold medal in one of the strongest events of the […]
National Indoor Bronze medal for Dante Clarke in Sheffield
A small group of Herne Hill Harriers athletes travelled to Sheffield over the weekend to compete at the England Athletics Age Group (U15/U17/U20) Indoor Championships and Dante Clarke brought home a national championship bronze medal in his event. A talented combined events athlete, Clarke focused on the Under 17 men’s long jump and produced a fine personal […]