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HHH Sports Welfare event, at Graveney School, Tooting, Sep 17
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The 2025 Stan Allen Mile, Tooting Bec Track, Wed Sep 3
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Muddy marvels! Surrey’s best racing for gold in Lloyd Park
Croydon tomorrow stages what promises to be one of the highest quality sports events in south London in all 2025, as the Surrey County Cross-country Championships are staged over Lloyd Park’s rolling hills and boggy valleys. More than 900 runners … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Croydon parks, Herne Hill Harriers, Lloyd Park, South London Harriers, Sport, Striders of Croydon
Tagged Aldershot Farnham and District, Belgrave Harriers, Croydon Harriers, Dave Clarke, Dominic Nolan, Gary Staines, Georgie Grgec, Gordon Pirie, Hercules Wimbledon, Herne Hill Harriers, John Gladwin, Katie Snowden, Lloyd Park, Lucy Jones, Paula Radcliffe, Phoebe Anderson, Poppy Craig-McFeely, Shireen Bailey, South London Harriers, Striders of Croydon, Surrey County Cross-country Championships, Thames Hare and Hounds, Tooting Bec Athletics Track
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Muddy marvellous! Nolan wins first London cross-country title
Croydon Harrier Dominic Nolan is London Cross-country champion. Nolan, 28, ploughed through boggy conditions to beat a field of more than 400 over six miles of one of the world’s best-known and toughest courses, around Parliament Hill Fields and across … Continue reading
The Stan Allen Mile open races, Tooting Bec track, Sep 6
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International action is getting back on track at Tooting Bec
Top track action returns to south London next month, with international distance runners potentially taking one of their last chances to chase down qualifying times for the World Championships in Budapest in August. Tooting Bec Athletics Track is staging a … Continue reading
Community running group wins national award after one year
One of the country’s leading athletics clubs has been named as winners of a prestigious national award for a community running initiative that already has 200 regular participants in less than a year. Tooting Run Club, based at Tooting Bec … Continue reading
Okoye makes history with European discus bronze medal
Croydon Harrier Lawrence Okoye made history in Munich last night when he became the first British man ever to win a discus medal at the European athletics championships. The 6ft 6in sometime NFL defensive lineman was reduced to tears after … Continue reading
Norbury Hill Cubs are for the long jump with Jade Johnson
Commonwealth Games and European athletics championships medallist Jade Johnson will be visiting Norbury Hill Cubs on Saturday morning to put them through their paces. Johnson, recently appointed club Patron at Herne Hill Harriers, will be unveiling the new scooter rack … Continue reading
Crystal Palace at risk as London squanders its Olympic legacy
Britain’s Olympic heroes and heroines had barely stepped off their homecoming flights from Tokyo than coaches and administrators were warning that the promised “sporting legacy” of greater participation and increased achievement and excellence is being squandered through neglect and lack … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Park, Herne Hill Harriers, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, Sport, Swimming
Tagged Alex Yee, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace NSC, diving, Joe Choong, John Powell, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, swimming
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Lloyd Park stages first track and race trial for England Athletics
MATTHEW KIERNAN reports on how local runners tried out the ‘new normal’ on Saturday. Photos: NIGEL BRAMLEY By this time of year usually, the country’s hardened distance runners, fun runners and joggers would be two months into their winter of … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Herne Hill Harriers, Lloyd Park, Sport, Striders of Croydon
Tagged coronavirus, Covid-19, Croydon Harriers, Lloyd Park
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Frank Harmer Memorial 10km, Brockwell Park, Mar 1
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Blue plaque for Albert Hill, Tooting’s unsung Olympic hero
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HHH Streatham Common 6M Cross-country, Sep 28
Streatham Common 6M XC Tough 6-mile cross country race, multiple undulating off-road laps of Streatham Common, organised by Herne Hill Harriers. 11.15am, Saturday September 28, 2019 Streatham Common, Covington Way, Streatham SW16
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Local runner has Sense of success after his marathon effort
Amish Patel completed his first London Marathon last Sunday, raising money for national charity Sense, having been inspired by his mother, who is registered blind. Patel, 34, from Croydon, a compliance analyst in finance, battled his way around the 26-mile … Continue reading
‘Sir’ is back in the classroom having learned a running lesson
Mr Webb was back in front of his science class of 30 or so boisterous teens at Harris Academy South Norwood yesterday morning, as if nothing had changed. But it had. Jamie Webb was now a European athletics silver medallist. … Continue reading
Emer Casey 10k road race, Brockwell Park, Nov 18
The Emer Casey Foundation and Herne Hill Harriers would be delighted to see you at the very special 10th anniversary edition of the annual Emer Casey London 10K in Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, on Sunday, November 18 at 9.30am. This … Continue reading
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Frank Harmer Memorial 10km, Brockwell Park, Mar 4
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Frank Harmer 10km road race, Brockwell Park, Mar 5
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Mirror’s Pride of Sport Awards show Faith in Coulsdon sprinter
A young sprinter from Coulsdon is among the nominees for the Daily Mirror‘s Pride of Sport Awards, with the winners due to be announced in a grand ceremony on December 7. Faith Price is only 11, but she’s already the … Continue reading
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Emer Casey charity 10K road race, Brockwell Park, Oct 30
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Streatham Common Six-mile Race, Sep 17
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Beddington NightRun offers another route to the marathon
Another week, another local weekly running event as part of the build-up to the London Marathon, or simply for fun and fitness, jogs into our mail box. Staged for the fourth time this week, Beddington Park now has a regular … Continue reading
