If you are an aspiring 10-year-old athlete and your elder brother is already at 18 the AAA high-hurdles champion and an Olympic competitor, the temptation must surely be to try another event entirely. Having then become Northern junior discus title-holder eight years later, your destiny would seem to be decided. Yet Bob Birrell was also […]
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Northern Athletics 10 Mile Championship 2017
This year, the NA 10 Mile Road Championship returned to the ever popular Brampton to Carlisle event. The 66th hosting of this event dawned with blue sky above and frost on the ground, on Sunday 19th November. With almost 600 runners, the narrow road start in Brampton was congested enough to keep the runners warm […]
The elegant Lancashire lass whose World record paved the way for Sally Gunnell
Sandra Dyson had just set a World record and told “Athletics Weekly” that “if anyone wishes to organise another 400 metres hurdles – late in the season, of course – I would be delighted to run”. The Coca Cola international meeting at Crystal Palace in September of that year of 1971 would have provided an […]
Welsh under 20 International Report
The annual Welsh Athletics sponsored under 20 International competition took place on Wednesday 20th June at Cardiff Athletics Arena. The team representing England North came away from the meeting with a first ever victory in the event taking the title by 9 points over England South and England Midlands with Wales under 20 in fourth […]
NA Senior & Under 20 Championship Report
Jessica Ennis-Hill was the star of the show as she continued her Olympic preparations in style. She won titles in her strongest event, 100 hurdles and her two weakest, shot and javelin as well as running a quick heat in the 200. Conditions were far from ideal when she lined up for the hurdles on […]
Northern Athletics Open Meeting Report 2015
Northern Athletics held a well attended annual open meeting at Trafford on 14th November, Dr Leo Carroll of Wirral AC was invited to be the President for the next 12 months and he was presented with his chain of office by retiring President Mrs Jean Simpson MBE. Northern Athletics long standing chairman Brian Heywood who […]
