Northern Athletics

In horse racing terms the going at Pontefract Racecourse would have been described as ‘good’ which certainly proved an advantage to the 10 newly-crowned Northern Athletics cross-country champions. After an absence of seven years, the Start Fitness-supported championships returned to the Yorkshire venue under the guidance of event manager Steve Gaines whose meticulous understanding to […]

Grahame Brummitt, a Life Vice President of Humberside AA, joined East Hull Harriers in October 1954 initially as a cross country runner. One of his early races as an 18 year old was the East Hull 20 held on a very hot day. He succumbed to the heat a couple of miles from the finish […]

Club Affiliation for Northern Athletics Your Club is requested to formally confirm that it is affiliating to Northern Athletics by sending an e-mail to Judith Temperton: judith@northernathletics.org.uk 186 clubs have done that already and we thank you for your support. List below Confirmation can be submitted up to the 1st October 2018. A list is […]

An exciting weekend of competition saw new Championship Best Performances figures in an amazing nine events heralding it an overwhelming success for the first track & field competition since the launch of the Northern Athletics affiliation scheme. The fantastic performances got underway early as Scunthorpe athlete Archie Yeo smashed the 25 year old record in […]

Another great race weekend for the North of England. Taking 12 athletes to compete as guests of Scottish Athletics in their inter district XC. With stern competition from the North, East, and West of Scotland and Scottish Universities the North of England faired well both in the individual race and in the team event. Fielding […]

Harry Barker was one of the least successful British Olympic athletes in history. After all, you really cannot do much worse than fail to finish in a heat in which there were only two starters. Yet it would be a pity if it is that one debacle for which he is solely remembered, and. it […]

The Reverend Edmund Baddeley, Vicar in the village of Starkholmes, in the Derbyshire Dales, would seem to be an unlikely champion of English hammer-throwing in the 19th Century, but on Saturday 1 July 1882 he won the Amateur Athletic Association title in that event. Having surely been inspired by divine guidance, he might then have […]

News reaches us that Grahame Brummitt was found dead on 11th January 2019. Grahame had been housebound for a number of years having suffered a number of small strokes and was then hospitalised for some time when he was suffered an accident at home. More news will be published when we have it

Mark 10.3 for the Flying Officer, taking off along the super-fast people’s runway Roy Sandstrom’s memories of a British 100 metres record of 1956 Through to the 1950s British sprinters had made a habit over the years of finding unexpected yards of extra speed when they got the rare chance to run overseas. So it […]

Why did the British selectors of the 1930s persistently ignore the No.1 high jumper and No.2 pole vaulter, John Dodd? Introduction: Various theories have been put forward for the origins of the pole vault, and Ian Tempest, the eminent York-based athletics historian, sums them up neatly in his 2008 handbook about the event in the […]