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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...