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Cottrill finished third behind Eddie Owen in the 1 mile event at the 1912 AAA Championships. [2] [3] [4]Shortly after the AAA Championships, he competed for Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden, in the 1,500 metres, in which he did not qualify for the final, and in the 3,000 metres team race, where he won a bronze medal with his teammates George Hutson and Cyril ...
Glover was selected to represent Great Britain in the 5,000 metres, the 10,000 metres and in cross country at the 1913 Olympic Games. [3] Glover's 16th place in the individual cross country event helped him to earn a bronze medal with teammates Frederick Hibbins and Thomas Humphreys in the team competition.
Cotterell came up with a bound, and the pair ran abreast until about twenty-five yards from the tape, when Cotterell made a great sprint, leaving Harper apparently standing still, and won a sensational race. Cotterell must have put in some wonderful running in the last two-and-a-half miles to make up the ground he did.
He also worked as a council rat catcher and in his spare time he ran for Alfreton Athletics Club, [1] Chesterfield Harriers, Hallamshire Harriers, and London Polytechnic. [2] He was the Derbyshire and Northern Counties One Mile Champion in 1953 and 1954.
Calli Hauger-Thackery (born 9 January 1993) is an English international athlete. [1] She was bronze medalist in the women's half Marathon at the 2024 European Athletics Championships, and a member of the gold medal winning team in the 2024 European Half-Marathon Cup, held at the same time.
The Hallam Chase claims to be the oldest continuously-run fell race in the world and a part of Sheffield's sporting history, being open to South Yorkshire road and fell-running clubs only. The race's origins lie in 1862, when Hallam F.C. promoted the start of their football season by organising a ten-mile steeplechase .
The English National Cross Country Championships is an annual English cross country running event which takes place in late February following the regional championships (Southern, Midlands and Northern) which all take place on the same weekend usually in late January.
The modern race was the inspiration for Dr James Dewar of Blaydon Harriers, who organised the first 24 races starting in 1981. [1] The first race attracted 212 entries, but by 2004 a record of 4,000 people took part with more than 600 other hopefuls rejected.