Highgate Harriers' students at UCL ran Personal Best times at the Watford Graded Meeting, on the evening of the 10th of July. Emily Chong, Under 23, Highgate Harrier, ran 10:09.40 to thrash her PB of...
Highgate Harriers youngsters improved upon their 5th position in the 3rd of 4 'Young Athletes League' competitions to finish 3rd, after their good display at Parliament Hill Fields, on the 6th of July...
Mathew Bernardi ran 16:47.91 in the BMC 5000m race at New Eltham, on the 19th of June, won by l popular local man Tom Butler of Shaftesbury Barnet, who ran a swift 14:15.12. Tom was the 3rd Senior...
In the 'Highgate newsletter' it indicated that Monte Watson and his Father Mark have been busy out racing. Monte Watson ran his personal best 5000 at the Finsbury Park track with a time of14:56.2 on...
At Birmingham in the BMC Grand Prix meeting, on the 6th of July, Joseph Young ran 3:51.5 for 1500, coming 3rd of 8 in Race 'C'. He was in the National 12 stage relay team that came 3rd earlier this...
The late, Mel Watman, to my mind the ‘Greatest’ athletics writer and previous. Editor of the old Athletics Weekly, that was not a monthly, said regarding the mile as an event. “No other athletic event...
The Highgate composite team, came into the match in Southern League Division 3 North London with 277 points with Watford on Harriers on 338 points in the lead but, on Saturday the 15th of June...
Back on the 18th of May, on the famous Oxford University track, in the 149th Varsity match, Terry Fawden, the Highgate Harrier, running for Cambridge University, not only won the 3000m steeplechase...
Highgate Harriers, the Metropolitan League cross country Champions and amongst the top 3 road relay teams in the country, were out on the 8th and 9th of June, winning the Welsh Castles Race. 20...
Michael James McLeod, born 25th of January 1952, a friendly, unassuming character, who caused a ‘Great Star’ in the North East of England with his winning road races. I think of him as the ‘Elswick...
Although Highgate Harriers these days are amongst the best road & cross-country clubs in Great Britain, their Highgate Harriers/Mornington Chasers composite Track& Field team is in a more modest...
If one had to point to who were the ‘Greatest’ competitors over 1500/One mile. in history, one could not possibly leave out the Algerian Noureddine Morceli. He was unbeaten in 15/1500/Mile races in...
I thought it would be good to begin this report by talking to one of the officials Richard Priestley, who was President of the Middlesex Athletics Association in 2015/16 and has been Middlesex Team...
Certainly Ben Pochee's promotion, for the 10th year, was a great success on the 18th of May, as crowds of onlookers thronged the bank at Parliament Hill's new track. In the Men's race won by Mohammed...
(Harry Tempan was born 20/5/25 and died on the 27th of April 2024) He was not a name that was known, amongst those who were in the public eye but, someone who loved his running till he was 94 and...
Sawam Barwal from India, who works in the Indian Army and is 26 years old, was 3rd in the Asian half-marathon Championships in 1:04.30. In the ’C’ race at Parliament Hill track, he looked very smooth...
The thrilling, Women’s 10K Olympic Trial race, in the warm Summer night air, in the Highgate Harriers Night of the 10,000 PB’s, at Parliament Hill Fields track, on the 18th of May, 2024. Megan Keith...
A Gold Medal went to Under 20 runner, Joseph Hayes, who ran his first significant 400, for a personal best time of 53.40. That was in the Final 'U20' race, in the Middlesex Championships at Lee Valley...
Highgate Harriers joined Race 2 of the Assembly League on the 2nd of May in Victoria Park and, out of 285 finishers Jack Brotchie of Highgate Harriers ran into 4th place in 17.54, not far behind the...
Sub 2:40 marathons by Highgate men are now becoming common place. At the start of the month Jack McVann, ran a personal best time of 2:32.18 in the Copenhagen marathon, wiping away his previous best...
Remy Weinbrecht, an under 20 Highgate Harrier, looks like going places, as he improved his decathlon score of 5893 of last year to 6514 on the 27/28th of April at the Somerset Championships & Somerset...
I know Highgate's club record holder Alex Lepretre, ran another 2:15 min London Marathon clocking in this year's London but, spare a thought for Daniel Higgins, now 45 years old, who ran 2 hours 34...
In the London Mini Marathon, Highgate Harrier Thomas Chadwick, gained 3rd place overall, in the very well contested event. Representing Camden, he was the first London teenager to finish in the large...
Running at the Highgate Harriers Open meeting, on the evening 17th of April, at Parliament Hill track, in cool conditions, tall Highgate Harrier Chris Rainsford, who was a Loughborough Student and...
UCCL student, Harvey Weinberger, ran his fastest 1500 at Watford in the Open Meeting on the 3rd of April. His time was 3:56.19 and in the same race Felix Kent ran 4:11.74 and leading Highgate Junior...