Herne Hill Harriers
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| Founded | 1889 |
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| Ground | Tooting Bec Athletics Track |
| Location | Tooting Bec Rd, London SW17 8AR, England |
| Coordinates | 51°25′47″N 0°08′49″W / 51.42972°N 0.14694°W |
| Website | official website |
The Herne Hill Harriers is an amateur athletics sports club based at Tooting Bec Athletics Track in Tooting Bec, London. The club caters to all levels and ages of track, field, road running and cross-country running and 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.[1]
The club was founded in the Herne Hill district of London in 1889[2] and completed their first handicap event in 1890.[3]
Joe Deakin won the club's first Olympic Gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.[4]
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 [5]
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