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 originally 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. 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
A number of 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.[4][5][6]
International Medalists
Olympic Games
Gold
- Joe Deakin - 3 Miles Team Race - London - 1908
- David Jacobs - 4 x 100m (3rd leg) - Stockholm - 1912
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
- Thomas Humphreys - 8,000m Team Cross Country - Stockholm - 1912
European Championship
Silver
- Jade Johnson - Long Jump - Munich - 2002
European Junior Championship
Gold
- Uvie Ugono - 4 x 100m (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 x 100m (3rd leg) - Amsterdam - 2001
European Under 20 Championships
Gold
- Olivia Hines - 4 x 400m (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
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
- ↑ http://www.hernehillharriers.org/the-club/about-us.html
- ↑ http://www.hernehillharriers.org/the-club/about-us.html
- ↑ http://www.hernehillharriers.org/the-club/about-us.html
- ↑ http://www.hernehillharriers.org/history/international-medallists.html
- ↑ http://www.hernehillharriers.org/history/olympians.html
- ↑ http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OSWCC19151221.2.7
- ↑ Into the Millennium - A history of Herne Hill Harriers - 1889 - 2001 by Kevin Kelly (2002)