Outdoor track and field competition
International athletics championship event
The 1896 AAA Championships was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 4 July 1896 at the County Cricket Ground, Northampton in Northampton, England, in front of 7,000 spectators.[1][2]
The 14 events were the same number as in the previous year and all 14 event disciplines remained the same.
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John Flanagan
Results
[3]
| Event
|
Gold
|
Silver
|
Bronze
|
| 100 yards
|
 Norman Morgan |
10.4
|
Max Wittenberg |
1½ yd
|
Charles Thomas |
|
| 440 yards
|
James Meredith |
52.0
|
William Fitzherbert |
3 yd
|
H.D. Casey |
5 yd
|
| 880 yards
|
William King |
2:01.4
|
Henry Cullum |
1 ft
|
Alec Nelson |
8 yd
|
| 1 mile
|
Benson Lawford |
4:31.4
|
Robert Wellin |
10 yd
|
Montague Davie |
8 yd
|
| 4 miles
|
Henry Harrison |
20:27.4
|
Charles Pearce |
60 yd
|
James Collins |
50 yd
|
| 10 miles
|
George Crossland |
52:05.0
|
Harry Watkins |
52:10.0
|
Percy Biss |
56:10.4
|
| steeplechase
|
Sidney Robinson |
11:25.0
|
A.G. Dabbs |
50 yd
|
George Lee |
30 yd
|
| 120yd hurdles
|
Godfrey Shaw |
15.6
|
J. King |
6 yd
|
Frederic Allfrey |
4 yd
|
| 4 miles walk
|
William Sturgess |
28:57.6
|
Harry Curtis |
29:27.4
|
M.K. Forrester |
30:02.4
|
| high jump
|
Murty O'Brien |
1.803
|
Reginald Williams |
1.651
|
only 2 competitors |
|
| pole jump
|
R.E. Forshaw |
3.05
|
Edwin Newby |
2.97
|
only 2 competitors |
|
| long jump
|
Claude Leggatt |
7.03
|
R.D. Barbour |
6.92
|
J. Richardson |
6.37
|
| shot put
|
Denis Horgan |
13.24
|
John Flanagan |
12.32
|
only 2 competitors |
|
| hammer throw
|
John Flanagan |
13.24
|
Denis Horgan |
12.32
|
only 2 competitors |
|
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