Under 13 year old, Arthur Shaw, continues to blaze a trail. He won the England Under 15 high jump in Sports City with a leap of 1'59 and that was by no means his only personal best performance at the...
In mostly bright sunshine at Sutcliffe Park Stadium, Eltham on Saturday 19/8, in the Final Southern League NE meeting of the season in Division 2, Cambridge Harriers came out top of the league with...
Tony Richards, who turned 70 last year, is a Highgate Harrier who continues well in the sport. His recent efforts included a 4k hammer throw of 30.87 metres; and a shot put of 11.86. Those were done...
Alex Lepetre, who ran 2:15.01 for a Highgate Harriers club record this year and, then went to Loughborough and raced a 5000 on June 10th in a personal best time of 14:06.54, did his second fastest...
Rebecca Johnson of Highgate Harriers ran her fastest 5000m at Tooting Bec track on the 26th of July. Her previous best was 16:02.08 and at Tooting she ran 15:58.48. Another to run a personal best was...
Highgate Harriers combined events for 11 year old's up to and including 17', performed solidly in the Middlesex Young Athletes League at Hendon last Saturday, the 22nd of July. Shaftesbury Barnet lead...
Highgate Harrier, Dominic Ogbechie, Highgate's leading jumper, came 4th with 2'09m in the UK Championships in Sports City, Manchester on the 8th of July. One of Highgate's best distance runners...
Priestley Proud Highgate Harrier, Richard Priestley, was the Manager of the Middlesex Men's team that won the Southern Inter-Counties track and field Championships, which took place at Horspath on the...
Dominic Ogbechie was 2nd of 12 finalists in the the CAU/inter-Counties & All England Championships at Chelmsford, on the 22nd of July. In the high jump on Saturday, In the deplorable weather of rain...
Rob Wilson an M35 runner, Highgate'scross-country Captain, showed what a force he is to be reckoned with on the road with his 69.10 Paddock Wood half marathon recently and, for five years now he has...
In the Golden Stag Miles, at Finsbury Park, on the 14th of July, three Highgate Harriers were inside the good club standard of 5 minutes for running a mile. John Steenson improved on his previous...
At the BMC Regional Meeting at Eltham, on the 19th of July, Edmund Brown, an Under 20' runner with Highgate Harriers, ran a personal best 800m in Race 'C' of 2:01.29. He was 5th of the 9 that ran in...
Dave Bedford was the only British runner ever to break the 10,000m track World record with 27:30.8. It was at Crystal Palace on the 13th of July, 1973, exactly 50 years ago on the 13th of July 2023...
Remy Weinbrecht, just out of the Under 17 age group, is an under 20 Champion. He impressed by winning the ESSA Regional SE Combined events decathlon, with 5896 points, for his ten events on the 24...
Malvin Greston Whitfield, was born in Bay City, Texas, October 11th 1924 & died November 19th 2015. Perhaps, the greatest compliment he ever had in his life was, by the President of the United States...
Known as Kip Keino by most, was brought up by an aunt, as his parents died when he was young. He came from Nandi, in the Rift Valley in Kenya. He will definitely go down as the first great African...
The last British World 10,000m record holder could have gone Faster! A.A “When you were running well and broke the 10,000m World record, some athletics fans pointed out that your run at Portsmouth, in...
Highgate Harriers Dominic Ogbechie and Sean Oceng-Engena, both coached by Marius Guei, look good as high jumpers of the future. Already this year in the Southern Championships, Ogbechie jumped 2m'12...
Brian Stanford Hewson (Born Croydon 4th of April 1933-Died South Africa 13th of September 2022) My memories of going to the White City Stadium in the middle to late 1950’s was, to see a stylish two...
Highgate came 2nd, in one of the most gruelling 20 'staggered' stage road races in the UK. It was called the Welsh Castles Relay, The relay race meant each day, each runner, had a stage to do', adding...
At Loughborough in the Grand Prix meeting on the 10th of June, Alex Lepretre. ran a time of 14:06.54 for 5000m bringing his previous best of 14:27.23 in 2019 right down. In his race he was placed 4th...
Christopher Thompson was born in Barrow in- Furness-on the 17th of April 1981. He has been a superb, road runner as well as a ‘Class’ middle distance track runner and a good cross-country man too so...
Charlie Haywood ran a personal best 5000m at the BMC Grand Prix on the 27th of May at Sports City with a time of 14:47.57, coming 5th of 27 in his race. His previous best was 14:48.9 in 2021. Rebecca...
Alex Lepretre turned 30 recently and, has had an outstanding and surprising athletic career, so far. He did over 3 hours for a marathon back in 2014, as an ‘Under 23’ student. His next run over that...
On May the 20th at Parliament Hill Fields track, in the second highest graded race 6 at ‘Ben Pochee’s Highgate Harriers Night of 10,000M PB’s’, Germany’s Konstantin Wedel won Race 6, that had 33...