Sunday 9th August 2009 will see Northern Athletics, in conjunction with the AAA of England, re-introduce a once popular and successful format to domestic Track & Field athletics which has been updated with the inclusion of innovative modifications.
A series of races for UK athletes in the senior and U20 age groups will be presented in a format allowing equated competition – or what was previously known as ‘handicapped’ events.
A selection of photos from the Senior & Under 20 Championships held at Manchester on 20/21 June. Many thanks to our friends Algis & Annette at Armada Photography
Natalie has updated the Northern Athletics Outdoor Championship Best Performances as of July 2008. Please have a look through and see if we have missed any performances.
We have also updated the results from Manchester with the missing wind speeds now added.
On Day 1 of the Northern Senior and U20 championships at a rather dull and windy Sport City Manchester the Leeds City senior men showed that whatever their U17 men could do they could as well.
There was a 1-2-3 for Leeds City in the U17 men’s 1500m at Gateshead. The senior men replicated this achievement in the 5000m. Their trio of Alan Buckley, Adam Grice and Dave Webb were never out of the leading group and frequently exchanged the lead. At one point they were content to follow Sunderland’s Mark Hood, but over the closing stages a further injection of pace from Dave Webb split up the leading group of six. The only two who could go with him were Grice and Buckley. Webb won in a time of 14.29.14, with Grice second and Buckley third.
From Sunday 28 June to Friday 3 July a party of twenty Northern athletes are competing at the XIII Island Games in Aland, Finland representing the Isle of Man.