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 U15 Boys win team golds at South of England Cross Country Championship
Herne Hill Harriers U15 boys won team gold medals at the South of England Cross Country Championships at Beckenham Place Park on Saturday, writes Geoff Jerwood. The narrow victory was not without drama as the provisional race results showed that they placed second, one point behind Cambridge & Coleridge and the trophy and medals were […]
The Jones girl adds a smashing indoor win to her growing reputation
Photo credit James Rhodes On a relatively quiet competition weekend for Herne Hill Harriers athletes, the standout performance again came from the club’s newest international athlete, Lucy Jones. Jones produced a huge 3000m PB to win a prestigious indoor British Milers Club race in Sheffield on Sunday. This followed up the midweek announcement from England […]
Lucy celebrates England selection with big Surrey League win
Photo credits Danny Easton For the second successive Saturday the cross-country events featured an eclectic mix of frozen ground, mud, and puddles as this weekend it was the turn of the Surrey Cross-Country League at West Horsley Place near Guildford. Herne Hill Harriers’ senior women returned to winning ways to claim an on the day […]
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 […]
Another Southern Indoor Pentathlon Title for Jasmine
After celebrating a Herne Hill Harriers European Under 23 women’s cross-country champion the previous weekend in Phoebe Anderson, it was this week the turn more locally of a younger, but equally talented star in the making at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre. At 15 Jasmine Nkoso is this season one of the youngest in her […]
British Masters title for Super Mum Gaby
Battersea Park has become the venue for many recent road racing events and on a very wet Sunday morning it was the turn of the British Masters Athletics Federation 5km road race championships for the second year in a row. There were strong entries in several age groups and at the very front of all the female […]