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 […]
HHH Under 15 Boys Win Ebbisham League Match
As well as Keeran Sriskandarajar winning the joint Junior Boys 800m English Schools Championship last Sunday afternoon in Manchester with a time of 2:01.17, other Harriers young athletes from the James McDonald middle distance training group were in action to help the club win their fixture in the Ebbisham League. At Woodcote School, Coulsdon, the […]
Herne Hill Veterans So Near, Yet So Far at Perivale T & F Meeting.
Wednesday 07/07/2021. Both Herne Hill Veterans track & field teams were ‘on show’ again at Perivale track, West London. It was the evening of England’s football semi-final, Wednesday 7th July, which might have perturbed a few from attending participative sport, but those that wanted still competed and enjoyed all but the first half of England’s […]
Anderson gets GB call-up for European U20 Championships
Phoebe Anderson has been selected for the Great Britain Juniors team for the European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia this month. Anderson’s Herne Hill middle distance club-mate Katie Snowden is preparing to compete at the Tokyo Olympics at the beginning of August while U23 sprinter Kristal Awuah headed to Tallinn on Tuesday. The U23 […]
Tooting Bec Track Update
Update statement on Tooting Bec Track Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition-please do so if you have not: https://democracy.wandsworth.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=169&RPID=10973470&HPID=10973470 There have been various messages on social media over recent days, and I thought it would be helpful to copy a message we have sent to the Wandsworth Council Cabinet member with responsibility for […]
Herne Hill Veterans Teams kick-off the 2021 Track & Field Season.
For the first time for some years, for this fixture at Hillingdon Athletics Stadium it was not ‘cold, wet and windy up North’. Monday 7th June, contradicted the almost expected weather pattern as veteran athletes heralded the restart of our mid-London division Vets track and field competitions after a 20 month break with benign settled […]
President’s Reflections – June 2021
There are two important issues I wanted to flag to begin with. First, thank you to the >1200 members and supporters who have signed our petition calling for Tooting track to be resurfaced-please do so if you have not already signed and do also share with your friends: http://www.hernehillharriers.org/wandsworth-council-confirm-track-is-not-at-risk/ Included at the above is some further […]
PBs galore at Battersea Park 5km
The second edition within the month of May of the new popular Friday Night Under the Lights 5km road races in Battersea Park saw another clutch of PB runs from Herne Hill athletes. Lewis Laylee was the fastest of the runners in red and black with 14:48, a PB by eight seconds, closely followed by […]
Katie Snowden third at Diamond League meeting
Katie Snowden finished third in the women’s 1,500m race at the Muller Grand Prix Diamond League meeting in Gateshead on Sunday. The Herne Hill Harriers athlete had posted two impressive wins in California going into the event. Snowden placed a clear third behind top Brit Laura Muir and Morocco’s Rababe Arafi to clock 4:08.92, leaving […]
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 […]