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25th Jun, 2025, Alima Diabate

Southern Athletics League Success!

First place with 425 points Highgate achieved a thumping win at Parliament Hill with our combined team Mornington Chasers. 67 Highgate athletes competed across 18 track and 16 field events, we scored...
28th May, 2025, Simon Baker

UYDL South - Division B

The club's U17 and U20 athletes, who compete in a combined team with neighbouring club London Heathside, continue to reach new highs this season securing a comfortable 2nd place in the second UYDL...
28th May, 2025, Alastair Aitken

Tribute to Tim Johnston

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...
21st May, 2025, Alima Diabate

Southern Athletics League - Match 1

📅 Saturday, 17th May 📍 Perivale 🏆 Final Standings: 2nd place – 360.5 points I was supposed to be on the sidelines cheering—but somehow, I found myself competing in the Shot Put… and throwing a PB...
14th May, 2025, Alima Diabate

Middlesex Young Athletes League - Match 1

Match 1 – Saturday 3rd May at Perivale Equal 5th place with TVH and E&H, currently on 50 points. We had a good turnout of athletes at the first league match. From the results, some athletes competed...
14th May, 2025, Alima Diabate

Middlesex Championships 2025

Saturday 10th May 2025 & Sunday 11th May 2025 A total of 23 athletes competed last weekend, achieving multiple personal bests, five County Champions, and two Championship Records. Under 17 Women...
14th May, 2025, Martin Holland

The First London Marathon?

Richard C returns: "My memory has woken up and memories have flooded back. The most iconic yearly marathon held in this county was The Polytechnic marathon, ‘The Poly’. It ran from 1909 to 1997...
7th May, 2025, Alima Diabate

Youth Development League - Match 1

Last weekend, we competed in the first Youth Development League (Under Age Group) at Withdean Stadium, Brighton. We finished in 3rd place with 452.0 points - a fantastic result! Many athletes achieved...
9th Apr, 2025, Dave Ainsworth

Happy Birthday, Bill Sutherland

Bill Sutherland celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday April 6th. Bill was an established name from the mid-60s onwards soon coming to the attention of International Selectors, and included among...
27th Mar, 2025, Jen Lovell Hickson

Karima Harris Keeps Breaking Records

Karima is a mother of three children and still works full-time as a partner in a law firm. When her children were young, she kept fit by running to work every day, but since joining Highgate Harriers...
20th Mar, 2025, Alima Diabate

Indoor Middlesex Championships

We had 15 athletes compete over the weekend (Saturday 15th, to Sunday 16th) at the Indoors. There were many good performances. I hope you were all pleased with your results and performances. The...
13th Mar, 2025, Kate Jenrick

Young Athletes at the North-West London League (Part 2)

After highlighting all our club champions and runners up last week, here are more details about how our athletes fared in the League itself—both as individuals with their best scores over 4 taken into...
5th Mar, 2025, Kate Jenrick

North-West London Young Athletes Cross-Country League

Fixture 5 @ Brent Lodge- 1st March 2025 This was the 5th & final Juniors XC race & brought a close to the 60th season of The North West London Young Athletes Cross Country League at Brent Lodge Park...
19th Feb, 2025, Manish Agrawal

Met League Junior Report

For the un-initiated The Metropolitan Cross Country League (Met League) is one of the oldest cross-country leagues in the country. Currently formed of 23 athletic and running clubs from around London...
12th Feb, 2025, Teresa Allen

London Schools Cross-Country Championships

Teresa Allen Wormwood Scrubs was the venue; Wednesday, the 5th of February, was the date. Arjuna Pflug came in 2nd place in the Intermediate Boys race, which was fantastic considering he was coming...
1st Feb, 2025, Teresa Allen

South of England Cross-Country Championships Results

Thanks to Teresa for sending in a link to the results for the South of England Cross-Country Championships. I invited Teresa to pick out two possibly random selections from the results. "Hmm, okay,"...
29th Jan, 2025, Alima Diabate

London Indoor Games U20 & SEN (18th & 19th Jan)

We had 10 athletes competing over the weekend at Lee Valley, achieving seven personal bests (PBs). Day 1 Track Aliyah Osman (U17W) – 28.7 PB (200m) Shuowang He (SM) – 25.34 PB (200m) Nick Van Oosterom...
23rd Jan, 2025, Sharaz Badr-Eddine

A Proud Moment For Highgate

A huge congratulations to 8-year-old Sofiyah Sharaz, one of Highgate’s youngest athletes, for making her debut for the U11s in the North West Cross League at the Hampstead Heath Extension (Fixture 4)...
8th Jan, 2025, Kate Jenrick

Middlesex County Cross-Country Championships

Great start to the New Year at the Middlesex County Championships. A cold day and tough mud once the top layer of ice thawed at Trent Park. Vital Stats from our Young Athletes: 2 County Champions-...
18th Dec, 2024, Deborah Laing

Boxing Day Race 2024 - Bottamist's Cup

Note start time: 11.10am Start venue: meet next to Parliament Hill running track Hampstead Heath from 10.30am to register and collect your number. Course: involves a circuit which extends to the field...
28th Nov, 2024, Chris Rainsford

British Athletics Cross Challenge in Liverpool

Magnificent Seven Head North for Cross Challenge Seven Highgate juniors ventured to the North West last Saturday for the latest stop in the British Athletics Cross Challenge series. Lauren Russell...