This is the newsletter that we never wanted to post. The one in which we are paying tribute and sharing our personal memories of Pete Mulholland, 'Mr. Hercules Wimbledon' who so sadly passed away on Wednesday (25 March).
Read MoreCompeting in one of the last major meetings to be staged before the current suspension of events due to the coronavirus outbreak, a handful of the Club's athletes were in tremendous form, returning from the British Masters Indoor Championships at Lee Valley with seven gold medals between them.
Read MoreThe Club underlined its appeal to all age groups over the last two weekends, with successes for the U11s on Epsom Downs, and a contingent of vets at Lee Valley.
Read MoreMore than 30 HW athletes were in action in testing, muddy conditions in the Saucony English National Cross Country Championships at Nottingham’s Wollaton Park on Saturday.
Read MoreFreddie Arkell, the England Indoor and Outdoor U15 Champion over 200m in 2019, took the silver medal for the 60 metres in his first major event as an U17 in the Surrey Indoor Championships at the David Weir Leisure Centre in Carshalton last weekend in a warm-up for this weekend's National Indoor Championships in Sheffield, where he goes in the U17 60m and 200m. Efe Peters will also be competing in the U17M 60m, and Missy Cooper in the U17W 60m.
Read MoreHW's young women and girls teams emphasised the strength in depth of their squad last Saturday in Richmond Park as the U17 Women clinched the title in the final match of the Surrey Cross Country League season. The U15s finished second in their league and the U13s third.
Read MoreThree HW athletes were celebrating personal bests last Sunday at the finish of the 29th Chichester 10K road race, which culminates in a lap of the iconic Goodwood motor racing circuit.
Read MoreHW's Senior Men posted their best team performance for almost half a century when they finished just outside the medals in the South of England Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields on Saturday.
Read MoreHaving won the Oxfordshire County Championship two weeks ago, Jonny Cornish posted a PB of 29:38 to finish fourth out of 183 runners in the Speedway 10km road race organised by Chepstow Harriers in Beachley, near the Welsh border, on Sunday.
Read MoreWhile HW's Senior Men put in another solid performance at Beckenham Place Park last Saturday to maintain their runners-up position in the Surrey Cross Country League, Ellen Weir followed up her victory in the County Championships at Dorking by winning the U17/U15 race in the Ladies League on Wimbledon Common.
Read MoreHW teams kicked off 2020 in style with a hat-trick of team medals in the Surrey County Championships at Denbies Vineyard, Dorking, on Sunday.
Read MoreMore than 60 Hercules Wimbledon runners took part in the club’s annual Christmas Cracker relay at Wimbledon Park on Tuesday December 10th.
Read MoreIn unfamiliar red and black, HW's Emilie Bokor-Ingram won a hat-trick of medals in the London Universities & Colleges Indoor Championships at Lee Valley, setting a new 400m record for King's College London in the process.
Read MoreHW's senior men's team continued their impressive run of performances, taking the men’s bronze medals in the London Championships on Parliament Hill last Saturday. They were also top Surrey and South London club.
Read MoreIt was a touch of deja vu for the Senior men and boys teams on Wimbledon Common on Saturday, as they raced through rain and mud reminiscent of similar conditions in last year's race.
Read MoreBen Toomer and Dominic Kiralyfi posted excellent times in the New York marathon last Sunday.
Read MoreThe Club's youngsters had to battle through gale force gusts and torrential rain in the Bruce Judd Surrey Young Athletes Cross Country Relays at Stoke Park, Guildford last Saturday.
Read MoreHW athletes enjoyed a weekend of outstanding success, winning the South of England Senior Men’s Cross Country Relay title, the individual British Masters marathon title and clinching gold medals across the age groups in the Surrey Masters Cross Country Championships.
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