Only two athletes have won the Olympic 110m High Hurdles title in Olympic history and, they were Lee Calhoun (USA) in 1956 & 1960 and Roger Kingdom in 1984 & 1988. However, an interesting comment was...
To my mind David Hemery, like the ‘late’ Ron Clarke, was a perfect Genteman of the track. It was an amazing breakthrough when David Hemery ran his World record 400m Hurdles of 48.1 in Mexico City, on...
Richard Dawson, a popular Highgate Harrier, died recently. Richard, who was only in his 50's, was a good 400/800 runner on the team and ran 1:52.14 for 800 in 1995 at Crystal Palace. Greg Smith, a 400...
I met Tommie Smith at Lancaster Gate, after he had beaten Commonwealth Champion Wendell Mottley of Trinidad, over 400m in 1966, at the White City Stadium. (45.3 to 45.7) Smith did not like the...
Ben Noad (Born May 6th 1976) is a supreme organiser and Athletics Consultant, plus being a good coach. He was the man behind the successful Festival track races at Wimbledon Park stadium in the Summer...
As a member of the RRC, having run 21 marathons (the first 19 in London) and interviewed thousands of athletes over many years, I felt that one deserved a strong mention in the RRC magazine— Timothy...
(Born in Glasgow 28/11/31 died on 27/7/24) Very few coaches ever could point to having a more varied career than John Anderson. Over his 92 years of life, he was the Chief Referee for the Television...
Born 22 of May 1940 & Died 25th of October 2024 In a way one could think of Alan Simpson, as a ’Nearly Man’, not having achieved a gold medal in the major outdoor Championships’ but, looking back and...
Amongst the Highgate Harriers club awards presented at the club's AGM, on the 7th of October, 2034 were - Priority Award for club senior Athlete of the year Alex Lepretre and, the Junior Jewell award...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
British Cross Challenge (World Trial) – ABBIE DONNELLY of Luke Welligton AC was The Women-s10k winner at PHF. Lead coach Rod Lewis but helped by ex-veteran Champion Bill Foster, when at Loughborough...
Under 15 Boys JOSEPH SCANES joined Blackheath & Bromley in 2020. "I really liked the course at Parliament Hill. There were hills in it but not the massive one’s the other side of the hill so, it...
On the 20th 0f January in the British Cross Challenge (Incorporating World Trials) Hugo Milner, the tall Derbyshire runner was leading the 10k but, closely followed by Tom Evans &, Mohammed Mohammed...
Highgate Harriers Officials mapped out a course on Hampstead Heath, supported by City of London Corporation, for a top-class cross-Country competition. on the 20th of January. It was the brainchild of...
Perhaps, the most sensational Olympic 800m Final ever held was in 1972 at the Munich Olympic Stadium when, I saw ‘The Head Waiter’ with the white golfing cap on, snatch victory, after being very well...
Sadly, one of the most outstanding officials to keep the Middlesex County Association going, in the last 100 years, was Roy Stratton, who died peacefully on the 23rd off November. Roy of Enfield &...
TONY SIMMONS By Alastair Aitken Tony Simmons, perhaps the most underrated ‘Middle to long distance’ runner the UK has produced in the last seventy odd years. His longevity as a ’Star’ performer is...
Looking back to the 1970’s- 80’ there were several British distance road & cross-country runners, amongst the top 30 in the World as track runners, like Dave Bedford; Tony Simmons; Brendan Foster...