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’ 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...
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...
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...
David Bruce, now a Doctor running for Bristol West, who was a popular middle distance and long distance runner for Highgate Harriers fifteen or so years ago, won the Bushy Parkrun on the 4th of...
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...
I n the Middlesex Senior Championships at Lee Valley on August Bank Holiday Monday, Sam Amdor was in a close battle for a bronze medal in the final of the Under 17 Men’s 800m,. running 2:01.95, not...
On the evening of the 1st of September at the Highgate Harriers Open meeting at Parliament Hill Fields over 70 athlete Tom Richards was in good form, winning the shot with 12.29m and showing his many...
Monte Watson, in his first year as an under 20 athlete, ran his first 5000m at Perivale in the third Southern League North West London meet on the 15th of August and was not only second in the race...
On the 21st of August at the London Inter Club track and field event at Hendon Finlay Sleeman, an under 20 Highgate Harrier, won the Race 1 800m in 2:04.41. Mariam Elgabry was second in Race 1 of the...
In a British Milers Club race over 800m at Gillingham on 7 August, Sam Amdor, an Under 17 athlete, won the Mens 800m B race in a personal best time of 1:59.98, which bettered considerably his outdoor...
Eric Nash, who was a great supporter of athletics at Parliament Hill Fields, sadly passed away on 16 June. He held numerous athletics posts including President of the English Cross Country Union and...
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)...
In the Middlesex Young Athletes League at Sonex on the 18 July, Highgate Harriers, were fourth of eight clubs with 32 points, behind league leaders Shaftesbury Barnet, who had 60 points on the day. In...
The Highgate Harriers & Mornington Chasers composite team were sixth with a small team in their Southern League fixture at Hillingdon on 11 July. However, Alima Diabate, a good sprinter with the club...
In the Middlesex Under 15 and Under 13 Championships at Lee Valley on the 24 July, one person who stood out for Highgate Harriers was Arthur Shaw, an under 13 athlete. Highgate official and coach Kate...
Dominic Ogbechie equalled his best jump of the season, to come 9th in the European Under 20 Championships in Tallinn Estonia on 17 July. He jumped 2.13 behind the winner Jonathan Kapitolnik of Israel...
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...
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...
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...