It was a big win for Calum Johnson on Sunday with a time of 63:44 debuting over the half marathon distance at the Chester elite half marathon. The National XC Champion and former Sport Newcastle Scholar recorded the second fastest time in the U.K. this year and is 38 seconds behind Mo Farah. This continues…
Fine Return to Competition … Despite a six month hiatus from competitive athletics due to the lack of open facilities and the health crisis, Sport Newcastle’s Scholar Joy Eze blew away the cobwebs with a fine personal best over 200m at the first of the North East Athletic Association’s Open Meetings at Morpeth on Sunday…
We would like to welcome coach Lee Morgan as the new addition to the Gateshead Harriers team. With 10 years coaching experience, Lee continues to support his U17 athletes at North Shields Poly but has relocated to Gateshead to coach U13 and U15 middle distance/endurance athletes to competition standard. In recent years Lee has…
First off were the masters women, followed by the masters men. Both female (Jane Giles, Freda Summerfield, Jackie Phillips) and male (Steven Medd, Kevin Connolly, David Dawson) teams finished 4th, out of the medals but with very credible runs across both teams. Then came the turn of the senior women. They were led off by…
World Athletics and UKA have published guidance on the footwear rules. See attached, together with advice from UKA. World Athletics Shoe Compliance List (as at 26 Feb UKA Footwear rules UKA Footwear rules
In anticipation of athletics resuming at the beginning of April the competition providers have been working hard to put together a summer of athletics competitions. See attached for the provisional list of local, regional and national competitions. 20210308 2021 Summer Fixtures
Well done all the young athletes (33 of you) who participated in the virtual mile – results are attached. The winner of the Quiz this time around was Alice Maguire – well done. Looking forward to seeing you all back in group training when we are allowed to return. GHAC YA Feb 21 Virtual Mile…
It is with deep regret that the club announce the passing of Rod Roberts (aged 76) who lost his 8 month battle against cancer on Saturday 20th February 2021. He was an extremely active serving member on the club committee for almost 10yrs in the late 1980’s and into the 1990’s, with 5 of those…
The club have been informed of the sad death of Joan Long (wife of Stan Long). Joan died on Saturday and had been suffering from dementia. The funeral is at St. Albans, Windy Nook at 1.30pm on Wednesday 24th February with cremation at 2.30pm. Joan was very supportive of Stan and his commitment to athletics…
Thank you to everyone who took part in virtual 21 LOCK-DOWN “MILE”, we had 25 athletes who took part so we decided to have 5 Teams each of 5 runners, as like the 2020 Lock-down series we put all the names/results in a hat and John’s wife drew them out and the teams are in…