The Club took one step closer to achieving promotion to the first division of the Southern Athletics League, with yet another win at Aldershot. on Saturday (13 August). In the sweltering heat the squad notched up a 6 point win over close rivals at the top of Division 2 West, Epsom and Ewell, and Aldershot Farnham & District.
Read MoreOn Saturday 6 August the HW 5000m Festival, complete with BBQ and music, brought the curtain down on the 2022 Summer Series of Distance Running at Wimbledon Park.
Read MoreCongratulations to Jonny Cornish, who has been called up to run for England, not once, but twice – first, on 20 August, as part of the four-man team competing in the Asics Home Nations 5K in Bute Park, Cardiff and then again, barely a week later on 28 August, he will be part of a different quartet competing in the Antrim Coast Half Marathon.
Read MoreHW will go into the fourth Southern Athletics League match of 2022 at Aldershot on Saturday 13 August having won the first three matches and topping the League with 661.5 match points over Basingstoke & Mid Hants AC on 603 points, keeping the Club on course for promotion.
Read MoreThree of the Club's vets were in action at the World Masters Tampere in Finland and all brought home gold medals.
Read MoreOn the evening of the hottest day of the year so far Jonny Cornish clocked a fantastic personal best of 29:58.53 – his first time under 30-minutes – to clinch the bronze medal in the England Athletics 10,000m Championships, which rounded off the Fast Friday event at Walthamstow on 17 June.
Read MoreThe Club enjoyed another decisive victory in Match 2 of the Southern Athletics League on Sunday, 12 June, with Team Manager Keith Scofield urging the squad to keep the momentum going into the next match in Oxford on 16 July.
Read MoreOur first Open Distance meeting of the season at Wimbledon Park duly delivered on the Club's reputation for staging fast, seeded races, with an amazing 106 athletes achieving PBs and another 47 notching up season's bests over the 12 1500m races.
Read MoreA raft of HW runners were back on the road again last Friday night (29 April) in the sixth race of the hugely successful Friday Night Under the Lights series.
Read MoreAnother piece of Club history was written over the roads around Sutton Park in the West Midlands on Saturday 9 April, when the Senior Men's team finished sixth in the National 12-Stage Road Relays in 4:17:00, the best result since the stellar team of 1973 finished fourth.
Read MoreSutton Park here we come! The Club's Senior Men head to the West Midlands on Saturday for the National 12-Stage Road Relays, having already made a little bit of Hercules history at the South of England Relays at Milton Keynes on March 27. For the first time ever HW qualified two teams for the Nationals – the only Southern Club to do so.
At last, after a hastily re-arranged fourth match in the Surrey Cross Country League (Storm Eunice saw off the intended fixture on Effingham Common), a scaled-down Senior Men’s team finally get their hands on the trophy in the icy winds and muds of Lloyd Park. The U17 Women and U13 Girls also topped their League, and the Senior Women finished an excellent sixth.. The U13 Boys finished in second, the U15 Girls in third and the combined U15 Boys and U17 Men in fourth. Full report to follow
Read MoreA fantastic day at the National Cross Country Championships on Parliament Hill for the U20 Women, especially, as Ellen Weir won a brilliant individual silver medal and the team took bronze. Notably the U13 Boys finished 7th, the U17 Women 10th, and the Senior Men equalled the 8th place they achieved in 2018, the last time the Championships were held in London, with first HW man home, Dan Cliffe, finishing 33rd.
Read MoreCongratulations to Conor Kelly who, in his first year as an Under 17, took the silver medal in the 200m at the England Athletics Age Group (U15/U17/U20) Indoor Championships in Sheffield on 12/13 February, in a PB of 22.40.
Joy is written all over Ellen Weir’s face (captured by photographer Lucien Lambotte) as she clinches her first major cross country win, representing England at the CrossCup Diest in Belgium. ‘I really enjoyed the race and it was a great experience', says Ellen. 'I was very happy to cross the line first, for the first time in a big race.’
Read MoreWell done to Ellen Weir who won the bronze medal in the U20 Women’s race at the Southern Cross Country Championships at Beckenham Place Park today. The Senior Men finished a fantastic fourth, with Dan Cliffe in 15th and Fred Slemeck in 16th leading in the team.
Read MoreCongratulations to 18-year old Ellen Weir, who finished a fantastic fifth and first England athlete home in the U17/U20 race at the Northern Ireland International Cross Country meeting this afternoon (Saturday, 22 January). The event, which brought a class field to the Billy Neill MBE Country Park, Belfast, also incorporated the World Athletics Silver Cross Country Tour and Celtic Games, as well as the fourth match in the British Athletics Cross Challenge series.
Read MoreWhile the HW Cross Country squads were racing in the cold and mud, around twenty of the Club's youngsters were competing in the more temperate climate of Lee Valley in the South of England U13-U17 Indoor Championships over the weekend of January 15/16, and collecting half a dozen medals between them.
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