After the fourth Start Fitness Metropolitan League fixture at Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday, 15 th January, Highgate Harriers men’s team are in first place in the top Division One, with 6,046 points and...
In damp muddy conditions at Greenford, Hannah Viner, who was second in the Middlesex Cross Country Championships in 2017, was in great form winning well, out of 97 competitors. Hannah, a previous Met...
James Barber, who has been as high as 27th in the Metropolitan Cross Country League this season, finished first in a Sunday League race at Stevenage on the 19th of December. 421 finished the race. His...
Thomas Chadwick, an Under 17 runner, who as an Under 15 came 11th in the recent Metropolitan CC League race at Uxbridge on 4 December and ran two personal best times on the track in the Summer with 2...
Alex Davidson, was the first ‘Over 55’ in the ‘Last Friday in the Month’ 5k road race at Hyde Park organised by Serpentine RC on 31st December. He was 21st of 176 overall in 18:00. He certainly looks...
Highgate Harriers took no prisoners, as they went further ahead in the Start Fitness Metropolitan League Cross Country on Saturday 4 December. In the Senior Men and Woman’s races, in the third fixture...
511 finished in the inclement weather at Sefton Park, Liverpool in the senior men’s British Athletics Cross Challenge on Saturday 27 November. The Highgate finishers were Seyed Taha Ghafari in 13th in...
On Saturday 27 November Highgate Harriers won the Fraternity Cup cross country race at Trent Park. In the cold wind, over a new course, the first to set off ahead of the 215 finishers were Ash Harrell...
Seyed Taha Ghafari won his first senior Championship race in 33:57 at the London Cross Country Championships on 20 November. For the first half of the London Championships he fought a battle with...
After the first two Start Fitness Metropolitan League races, the Highgate Harriers' Senior Men continue to lead in the League table. The first three are Highgate with 1,554 points; 2, Thames Valley...
The Olympian and GB distance runner Timothy Frederick Kemball Johnston died in October 2021, aged 80. Tim went to Bedales public school, where he wrote some new records on the books, and then won two...
One of our all-time ultra-distance walking greats has passed-on, aged 88. Legendary Fred of Highgate Harriers completed 19 UK sub-24 hours' 100 miles races, commencing with a 22:30.13 timing in the...
In the English Cross-Country Relay Championships on Saturday 6 November at Mansfield, Highgate recorded their best result ever by coming second in the Senior Men’s event. 147 teams completed...
All over 50-year old runners from Highgate Harriers were well up the field in the North London Cross Country Championships at Uxbridge on Saturday 30 October. Alex Davidson an 'over 55' athlete was...
On 16 October, Highgate Harriers finished their scoring first team of men in the first 35 of 372 finishers in the first Start Fitness Metropolitan League cross-country fixture at Claybury. The race...
For the first time in the London Marathon, since it started in 1981 Roger Low of Highgate Harriers, decided not to run this year. "Not bad!” said Press Secretary Alastair Aitken, who ran the first 19...
Mel Watman, the great athletics journalist, died on 17 September 2021 from cancer aged 83. To my mind, Mel was the best international athletics journalist of the last 65 years coupled with being a...
Highgate Harriers senior men were 8th of 75 clubs that finished in the National Six Stage road relay on Saturday 9 October at Sutton Park near Birmingham. Yet, they had three of their top men missing...
Highgate Harrier Gareth Creagh (M40) was the first Highgate Harrier in the 2021 London Marathon in 717th position in the mass men’s race. His time was 2:46:35 improving his personal best of 2:53:12...
Highgate Harriers’ men finished two teams in the top 10 in the most prestigious road relay in the South, when they came 4 th and 9 th out of 40 complete teams in the SOAR MK Road Relays on 26th...
At the ‘Friday Night under the Lights’ races over 5k on the road at Battersea, organised by Highgate’s Ben Noad and which actually took place on Thursday 16 September, Highgate's Taha Ghafari came in...
On Wednesday 8 September, Finlay Sleeman (U20), son of Highgate Harrier Jon Sleeman, ran 2:00.25 for 800m at the Watford open meeting, on the Woodside track. His previous best time was 2:02.3 at...
At Minet Park, on 12 September, the Middlesex road relays were held with a focus on young athletes. Highgate Harriers were third in the under 13 girls relay and Izzy Ions ran the third fastest...
In the final Southern Athletics League track and field match of the season on 11 September the scores were Thames Valley Harriers 325.4; Harrow 183.5; Ealing, Southall & Middlesex, 166.8; Highgate...
MARTIN HYMAN (born 3 rd July 1933 in Southampton, died 3 rd April 2021 in West Lothian, Scotland). In addition to his achievements as an international athlete, Martin was a successful and inspiring...