Premier International athletics in itself has a certain amount of pressure put on the athlete, to perform very well in championships, but for Hassiba Boulmerka (Born 18-Jul-1968, Constantine, Algeria)...
On the 4th of September, in the evening, conditions were good with no rain and well attended. Two senior results stood out as high quality performances. Sam Jones of St Albans ran 49.51 to do the...
In the running/swimming combined event 'The Duathlon' held for the 25th time on Hampstead Heath, in good conditions this year on September1st, 'Stylish' Highgate Harrier, Yasmin Goater was 2nd woman...
Young ran 3:51. 07 for 1500, not very far off his best for the distance. It was in the World Gold Standard BMC races, at Watford, on the 21st of August. Alex Jackson, also of Highgate Harriers, was...
Alex Lepretre, Highgate's top Marathon man, whose favourite sport is cross-country running, which he achieved a silver medal for in the main Southern Senior cross Championships earlier this year, was...
Athletics continues in the clubs, despite many glued to the box in an Olympic week. On the 3rd of August, In the Hercules & Wimbledon Festival of 5k's' with 10 races in the evening, two Highgate...
After the 3rd and final match (due to the 4th fixture being cancelled due to the lack of a host club), the first three teams of seven, on the 14th of July in the Southern league T&F North London were...
Highgate Harrier Remy Weinbrecht, an Under 20 athlete, improved his decathlon best of last year, which was 5898, to increase his score to 6722 to come 2nd in the Under 20 combined event at Birmingham...
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...
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...
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...
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...