Herne Hill Harriers Explained

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

Bronze

European Championship

Silver

European Junior Championship

Gold

Silver

European Under 23 Championships

Gold

European Under 20 Championships

Gold

European Cross Country Championships

Silver

Bronze

Empire/Commonwealth Games

Silver

Bronze

European Masters Athletics Championship

Gold

Silver

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Herne Hill Harriers . 2011-04-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110725165949/http://www.hernehillharriers.org/the-club/about-us.html . 2011-07-25 . dead .
  2. Web site: About Herne Hill Harriers . 2011-04-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110725165949/http://www.hernehillharriers.org/the-club/about-us.html . 2011-07-25 . dead .
  3. Web site: About Herne Hill Harriers . 2011-04-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110725165949/http://www.hernehillharriers.org/the-club/about-us.html . 2011-07-25 . dead .
  4. Web site: Papers Past THE SPORTING WORLD (Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, 1915-12-21). Zealand. National Library of New. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. en. 2017-05-29.
  5. Web site: Athlete Profile. www.thepowerof10.info. 2020-02-18.
  6. Web site: Herne Hill Harriers Thurgood wins silver at the European Masters Championship. en-GB. 2020-02-18.
  7. Into the Millennium - A history of Herne Hill Harriers - 1889 - 2001 by Kevin Kelly (2002)

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