Robert Wilson, the Highgate Harriers men’s cross country Captain, was the only Highgate runner to compete in the 'Comeback 5000’ m races at Battersea on 31 March. He clocked a time of 15:27.69 in race...
The Night of 10,000m PB's scheduled to be held at Parliament Hill Fields athletics track on June 5th 2021 has been cancelled, and the British Olympic 10,000m Trials and European Cup will now be held...
Olympic walker Vincent Paul Nihill died aged 81 on the 15 December 2020 in a care home, but as a competitive athlete he was among the very best race walkers in the world. For much of his life he lived...
Dominic Ogbechie still, a junior Under 20 athlete on the track & field, is among the best 10 high jumpers, including seniors, in the UK, according to Athletics Weekly’s 2020 rankings. His best...
Even though classified as 'unofficial racing', Fireworks night drew out a bunch of Highgate Harriers to the evening meeting in the Finsbury Park series, on the 5th of November. In the 3000m Ross Doran...
That was Ben Pochee's description of the Highgate Harriers running in the muddy cross country race at the Merchant Taylors’ School course at Northwood on Saturday 31 October. A total of 238 finished...
The thoughts of everyone at Highgate Harriers are with the family, friends and club mates of Chris Smith of Thames Valley Harriers who has tragically died aged 43 whilst out running in the Perthshire...
On October 8th, George Gandy, the international coach, died in hospital aged 80. Anyone who is or was involved with high-level athletics will remember him as, countless Loughborough University...
Finlay Sleeman, an under 17 runner, ran a personal best 800m time on the Harrow track on 24 September in an evening that saw 12 800m and 12 1500 m races. His time was 2:03.13 in 4th place in his 800...
University College student, Henry Murdoch of Highgate Harriers, ran his fastest 3000m to date with a time of 9:01.99 in the Watford Graded meeting on Wednesday 4 September. His previous best was 9:15...
Amy Rutherford ran into second place in the race 14 of the 200m at The Lee Valley Sprint Open on the 28th of August with a time of 28.63. She has been consistent around that mark for the last two...
Highgate’s Charlie Haywood was out running well again on 21 August at Watford. Having run the respectable time of 14:51 in the Hercules 5000m Festival, organised by Ben Noad at Wimbledon recently, he...
Now Highgate Harrier, Tony Richards is 70, he is still performing very well and in the British Masters Championships at Perry Bar, Birmingham on 10th August, in his over 70 category, he won the...
Dominic Smith improved on his personal best of 15:59.71, that he achieved in the Southern League at Parliament Hill earlier in the summer, when, at Wimbledon in the Hercules 5000m Festival on...
Alastair's Favourite Games - 1968 & 1969 (August 2020) MEXICO 50 YEARS LATER (November 2018) Perhaps, the last really unusual venue and amateur Olympics was, in Mexico City in 1968. I went to Mexico...
Matt Shone and his impressive record (August 2020) Matt Shone only found his true single sport of athletics, when he was 20 and then, took it up seriously, both with his training and racing. He is an...
Flying Scotsman Bows Out (June 2020) Don Macgregor of Fife AC, was born in Edinburgh on 23rd of July 1939 and died in Scotland on the 3rd of June 2020. He was formerly married with three children. In...
Gordon the Legend for October BMC News (June 2020) GORDON PIRIE Alastair Douglas Gordon Pirie was born in Leeds on the 10th of February 1931 and died on the 7th of December 1991. I had spoken to...
Andy Green (May 2020) 25/11/42 - 18/4/2020 "I never heard a bad word said about Andy' remarked his brother in Law, Mike Tagg, the European 10k silver medalist of 1969 . He went on to say regarding...
Remarkable John Bryant (May 2020) John Bryant (25/4/44-29/4/20) John Bryant, Married to Carol with two sons Mathew & William, ran in 24 marathons. His fastest time was 2:21. That may not seem an...
Metropolitan League No 5 in February (April 2020) DYLAN EVANS won his third successive Metropolitan League race of the season, at Trent Park Alastair Aitken reports. Over a course with a few sticky...
Early days with Andy Green (April 2020) I used to talk a lot, about Andrew Green with his Uncle, who was a claims adjuster at LLoyd's, as I worked in insurance too. That was even before Andy came down...
The Last Double British Olympic Walking Medals (April 2020) To digress for a moment, the club I first joined in 1957 Highgate Harriers, had some of the top walkers in the UK and, in the War before...
Alan Corfield (March 2020) Alan Corfield, born London 20th of May 1933 died, after a lengthy illness in Devon on the 10th of February 2020. In 1949 he joined Highgate Harriers and later with his wife...
Peter Snell 17/12/1938 - 12/12/2019 When New Zealander Peter Snell died, in Dallas, on the 12th of December 2019, he was known as Sir Peter George Snell, OBE; PhD, as Director of The Human Performance...