Competing in the SOAR Milton Keynes 5000 PB special on 17 July Rebecca Johnson ran a new PB of 16:48.37 in the Elite Women’s race. The previous month (30 June) Rebecca ran a new PB on the road for 5k...
In Barnet & District AC’s Stag Mile event at Finsbury Park on 3 July the fastest mile runner of the day was Highgate Harrier Taha Ghafari who won race 14 in 4:19.13. In race 9 Ellen Donald (under 20)...
At the Track Academy Schools Invitational on the 8th of July at Willesden, a number of Highgate runners performed well in the under 15 800m. Izzy Ions, an under 13, won in 2:34.27 with Highgate's Mia...
Ron Hill, who died on 23 May 2021, will go down in athletics history as one of the ‘Greatest’ all-round distance competitors, not just as a ‘Big’ Championship marathon winner but as one of the truly...
On Saturday 26 June in warm weather at Parliament Hill Fields track Highgate young athletes did well in partly lockdown conditions. In the well contested Middlesex Young Athletes League event...
British Milers Club, on realising Hannah Viner had won three BMC races, on separate days at separate venues, recently remarked on their web site: " We don't think that has been done before and it...
In the first Southern League North West London Division fixture on 20 June, Highgate Harriers were fifth and two of the clubs they competed against were not so long ago Premier League clubs. The...
Dominic Ogbechie, was 7th in the Olympic high jump trials out of 13 finalists and, equalled his season's best of 2.13, which he had previously done when he qualified for the European Junior...
Dominic Ogbechie of Highgate Harriers improved his season's best of 2.11 to do 2.13 at Bedford on 21 June and he will compete in the Olympic Trials. He will be also be competing in the 'Under 20'...
In the London Schools Championships at Battersea on 12 June. several Highgate Harriers did personal best performances in under 17 events. In third place was Tyrah Joseph with a 9.87 shot put; Camille...
Ross Doran, an Under 20 runner, came second out of 11 in his London Inter Club Challenge race at Lee Valley over the weekend of 12-13 June.. Running in Race 2 of the 1500m he was second in 4:27.38, a...
On Sunday 13 June some Highgate Harriers found some useful competition in the Newham & Essex Beagles Open Sprint event at Stratford. Amy Rutherford (W35) was fifth in race 4 of the women’s 200m in 29...
Ash Harrell of Highgate Harriers was second in the City of Norwich Half Marathon on Sunday 13th of June. The winner was Norman Shreeve of Cambridge & Coleridge AC in 68:30 and Harrell did 69:34...
Hannah Viner, won the Women’s 1500m 'C' race at the Watford British Milers Grand Prix on Saturday 12 June. The Highgate Harrier, who runs so well over the country for the club, did a time of 4:24.89...
Dominic Ogbechie started his summer high jumping coming second in the Loughborough Open Meeting on 2 June. He jumped 2.10m. In third place was another Highgate man Sean Oceng-Engena. He jumped 1.90m...
With the Tokyo Olympics approaching, Alastair Aitken looks back on Ann Packer, who won gold and silver at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and her husband Robbie Brightwell, who took a relay silver at the...
Highgate Harriers were the top club in the Middlesex Young Athletes League in the last season that they competed in before the virus took a hold of events. After the first fixture of 2021 held over...
On 19 May in the Wimbledon Distance Night on the track in Wimbledon Park Hannah Viner ran a season's best time of 16:49.75. for 5000m and was followed home by Yasmin Goater, who ran a personal best of...
Nina Griffith was the seventh woman home in the Cheshire Elite Marathon at Pulford on 25 April. Her time was a new PB of 2:36.45. Griffith will be remembered for her racing in 2020, when she came...
In the Harrow 3000m Open on 22 April Matthew Buckley (U20) was second in race 6 in 9:51:68. Ross Doran (U20) ran 9:29.34 and Mathew Kaminer (U20) 9:35.27 in race 8. It was in race 3 that Lauren...
Catherine Airey and Kani Hinshelwood were the first two in Race 2 of the Covid-19 one lap Challenge at Finsbury Park, on the 4th of April. Both runners ran for Highgate on the track over 3000m last...
Many of Highgate’s 'Star' middle distance runners had a good team victory at the high quality Wimbledon 5k road race on the 11th of April. Even with a tough hill to negotiate in it the 'Gate' runners...
When I was 8 years old, I was taken, with my brother Ian, to my first ever big athletics meeting, which was the AAA Championships at the White City Stadium. My father, Colonel David Aitken, was a...
It was very sad news to hear that on the morning of the 10 th of April 2021 Highgate Harrier John Wild died. He was born on 28 th of February 1927. He joined Highgate Harriers on the 31 st of May 1954...
Robert Wilson, the Highgate Harriers men’s cross country Captain, was the only Highgate runner to compete in the 'Comeback 5000’ m races at Battersea on 31 March. He clocked a time of 15:27.69 in race...