Herne Hill Harriers

The Herne Hill Harriers is an amateur athletics sports club based at Tooting Bec Athletics Track in Tooting Bec, London. The club was founded in the Herne Hill district of London in 1889.[1] The club caters to all levels and ages of track, field, road running and cross-country running. The club begins training athletes at age 11 and offers “Star Track” an opportunity for younger children to get involved at the end of July each year.[2]

Leagues

Herne Hill Harriers athletes are involved in a number of different leagues and competitions. The men's track and field team competes in the second and third division of the Southern men's league as well as the Rosenheim league involving other local clubs. The women's track and field team competes in the UK women's athletics league while younger athletes compete as a part of the National young athletes league as well as the Ebbisham and Lily B Leagues.

The club's cross-country athletes compete in the Surrey and East Surrey Cross Country Leagues each season as well as the South of Thames, Surrey, South of England and National Cross Country championships Road Runners at Herne Hill Harriers compete annually in the Surrey, South of England and National 6-stage Road relays in the autumn and in the longer 12-stage road relays in the spring as well as participating in the Surrey Road League over the summer months [3]

Notable athletes

Former Olympians and European champions in athletics have run for the club including Olympic medalists Joe Deakin, David Jacobs, Herbert Johnston, Ernest Webb and Thomas Humphreys, as well as Harry Green, another Olympian who held a world best in the marathon, as well as Michael Maynard, part of the historic England Team that took gold at the 1957 International Cross Country Championships in San Sebastián, Spain.[4]

International medalists

Olympic Games

Gold

Silver

  • Ernest Webb - 3,500m Walk and 10 Miles Walk - London -1908
  • Ernest Webb - 10,000m Walk - Stockholm - 1912
  • Herbert Johnston - 3,000m Team Race - Paris - 1924

Bronze

European Championship

Silver

European Junior Championship

Gold

  • Uvie Ugono - 4 × 100 m (1st leg) - Ljublijana - 1997

Silver

  • John Boggis* - 3,000m - Paris - 1970

European Under 23 Championships

Gold

  • Jade Johnson - Long Jump - Amsterdam - 2001
  • Sabrina Scott - 4 × 100 m (3rd leg) - Amsterdam - 2001

European Under 20 Championships

Gold

  • Olivia Hines - 4 × 400 m (1st leg) - Grosseto - 2001

European Cross Country Championships

Silver

  • Benedict Whitby* - 10,000m Team Race - Dublin - 2009

Bronze

  • David Taylor* - 9,000m Team Race - Alnwick, Northumberland - 1995

Empire/Commonwealth Games

Silver

  • Terence Higgins - 4 x 440y (1st leg) - Auckland - 1950
  • Robert Setti - 4 x 440y (2nd leg) - Perth - 1962
  • Jade Johnson - Long Jump - Manchester - 2002

Bronze

  • Ernest Haley - 200m - London - 1911
  • Ian Boyd - 880y - Vancouver - 1954
  • Laurence Tait - 120y Hurdles - Perth - 1962
  • Sheikh Faye (Gambia) - High Jump - Edinburgh - 1970

Gold
  • Stuart Thurgood - Weight Throw - Ismir, Turkey - 2014[5]

Silver
  • Stuart Thurgood - M40 Hammer Throw - Aarhus, Denmark - 2017[6]

All medals won for Great Britain/England unless stated otherwise. [7]

Kit

The club vest consists of a crop top or vest with red and black horizontal stripes, with black shorts.

References
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  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-04-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-04-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Zealand, National Library of New. "Papers Past | THE SPORTING WORLD (Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, 1915-12-21)". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  5. "Athlete Profile". www.thepowerof10.info. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  6. "Herne Hill Harriers | Thurgood wins silver at the European Masters Championship". Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  7. Into the Millennium - A history of Herne Hill Harriers - 1889 - 2001 by Kevin Kelly (2002)

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