James Barber, who has been as high as 27th in the Metropolitan Cross Country League this season, finished first in a Sunday League race at Stevenage on the 19th of December. 421 finished the race. His...
Highgate Harriers took no prisoners, as they went further ahead in the Start Fitness Metropolitan League Cross Country on Saturday 4 December. In the Senior Men and Woman’s races, in the third fixture...
On Saturday 27 November Highgate Harriers won the Fraternity Cup cross country race at Trent Park. In the cold wind, over a new course, the first to set off ahead of the 215 finishers were Ash Harrell...
511 finished in the inclement weather at Sefton Park, Liverpool in the senior men’s British Athletics Cross Challenge on Saturday 27 November. The Highgate finishers were Seyed Taha Ghafari in 13th in...
Seyed Taha Ghafari won his first senior Championship race in 33:57 at the London Cross Country Championships on 20 November. For the first half of the London Championships he fought a battle with...
After the first two Start Fitness Metropolitan League races, the Highgate Harriers' Senior Men continue to lead in the League table. The first three are Highgate with 1,554 points; 2, Thames Valley...
The Olympian and GB distance runner Timothy Frederick Kemball Johnston died in October 2021, aged 80. Tim went to Bedales public school, where he wrote some new records on the books, and then won two...
In the English Cross-Country Relay Championships on Saturday 6 November at Mansfield, Highgate recorded their best result ever by coming second in the Senior Men’s event. 147 teams completed...
One of our all-time ultra-distance walking greats has passed-on, aged 88. Legendary Fred of Highgate Harriers completed 19 UK sub-24 hours' 100 miles races, commencing with a 22:30.13 timing in the...
All over 50-year old runners from Highgate Harriers were well up the field in the North London Cross Country Championships at Uxbridge on Saturday 30 October. Alex Davidson an 'over 55' athlete was...
On 16 October, Highgate Harriers finished their scoring first team of men in the first 35 of 372 finishers in the first Start Fitness Metropolitan League cross-country fixture at Claybury. The race...
Highgate Harriers senior men were 8th of 75 clubs that finished in the National Six Stage road relay on Saturday 9 October at Sutton Park near Birmingham. Yet, they had three of their top men missing...
Highgate Harrier Gareth Creagh (M40) was the first Highgate Harrier in the 2021 London Marathon in 717th position in the mass men’s race. His time was 2:46:35 improving his personal best of 2:53:12...
For the first time in the London Marathon, since it started in 1981 Roger Low of Highgate Harriers, decided not to run this year. "Not bad!” said Press Secretary Alastair Aitken, who ran the first 19...
Mel Watman, the great athletics journalist, died on 17 September 2021 from cancer aged 83. To my mind, Mel was the best international athletics journalist of the last 65 years coupled with being a...
Highgate Harriers’ men finished two teams in the top 10 in the most prestigious road relay in the South, when they came 4 th and 9 th out of 40 complete teams in the SOAR MK Road Relays on 26th...
At the ‘Friday Night under the Lights’ races over 5k on the road at Battersea, organised by Highgate’s Ben Noad and which actually took place on Thursday 16 September, Highgate's Taha Ghafari came in...
At Minet Park, on 12 September, the Middlesex road relays were held with a focus on young athletes. Highgate Harriers were third in the under 13 girls relay and Izzy Ions ran the third fastest...
In the final Southern Athletics League track and field match of the season on 11 September the scores were Thames Valley Harriers 325.4; Harrow 183.5; Ealing, Southall & Middlesex, 166.8; Highgate...
On Wednesday 8 September, Finlay Sleeman (U20), son of Highgate Harrier Jon Sleeman, ran 2:00.25 for 800m at the Watford open meeting, on the Woodside track. His previous best time was 2:02.3 at...
MARTIN HYMAN (born 3 rd July 1933 in Southampton, died 3 rd April 2021 in West Lothian, Scotland). In addition to his achievements as an international athlete, Martin was a successful and inspiring...
David Bruce, now a Doctor running for Bristol West, who was a popular middle distance and long distance runner for Highgate Harriers fifteen or so years ago, won the Bushy Parkrun on the 4th of...
On the 21st of August at the London Inter Club track and field event at Hendon Finlay Sleeman, an under 20 Highgate Harrier, won the Race 1 800m in 2:04.41. Mariam Elgabry was second in Race 1 of the...
I n the Middlesex Senior Championships at Lee Valley on August Bank Holiday Monday, Sam Amdor was in a close battle for a bronze medal in the final of the Under 17 Men’s 800m,. running 2:01.95, not...
On the evening of the 1st of September at the Highgate Harriers Open meeting at Parliament Hill Fields over 70 athlete Tom Richards was in good form, winning the shot with 12.29m and showing his many...