Athletics
HARLOW Athletic Club’s rising star, George Watkins has just equalled a club record that has stood for close to fifty years. On Wednesday August 9th at an Open Graded Meeting in Watford, the 13-year-old St Mark’s student ran 9.02.4 for the 3,000 metres. He has…
HARLOW Running and Tri Club’s Alan Knightly excelled at the St Neots Sprint Triathlon (750m Swim, 24km Bike, 5km Run) finishing in 4th place out of 85 finishers and 1st Male Vet 50 in an excellent 1hr 15min 42sec. Meanwhile, at the Bedford Standard Triathlon…
HARLOW AC member, Bebe Jackson, has enjoyed a stellar start to her international athletics career. Classed as an T and F 44 athlete, for athletes with lower limb impairments, she represented Great Britain in both senior and age group events as a sprinter last year.…
HARLOW Running and Tri Club’s triathletes Jon Waight and Ryan Smith completed the Dorney Lake Sprint Triathlon (750m Swim, 20km Bike, 5km Run) at Windsor on Sunday morning. Jon finished in 24th place out of 205 finishers and 1st Male Vet 60 in an excellent…
HARLOW Athletic Club’s Bebe Jackson will be flying the flag for England at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Tobago this week. Sprinter and thrower Bebe has always been a proud ambassador for her sport. Bebe is now literally a standard bearer for athletics. Para athlete…
HARLOW Running and Tri Club’s prolific distance runner Laura Prime, not content with just one marathon run, completed two marathons over the weekend, both at Bury Saint Edmunds. On Saturday Laura completed the Zig Zag Running Great Barrow Challenge Marathon on the Denham Flats Route,…
WITH league competition winding down, Harlow’s junior athletes have been looking for Open competitions to participate in and extend their season. 5On Wednesday, George Watkins ventured up to Kettering to take part in a mid-week middle distance event. He went to run the 3000m and…
HARLOW Running and Tri Club were represented at the Bedford Triathlon Team Relays (lake swim 750m, bike 23k, run 5k) which also incorporated the East Region Championships. Thirty triathletes competed in ten same gender or mixed teams of three. All three members of the team…
BEBE Jackson enjoyed a hectic weekend as she competed at both The UK Senior & Para Championships, and then received a call up to the Wanda Diamond League event at The London Stadium on Sunday. In the Para Championships, she ran the ambulant 100m and…
HARLOW Athletics Club star Bebe Jackson is set to compete in the prestigious Diamond League event at the London Stadium on Sunday. GB para international Bebe will run shoulders along with the likes of Olympians Keely Hodgkinson, Zarnel Hughes and Katrina Johnson-Thompson to name just…
RIDLINS Stadium, in Stevenage was the venue as Stevenage and North Herts hosted the latest round of the Eastern Young Athletes’ League. It is a similar refrain that, once again, Harlow’s team numbers were small. However, there was plenty of quality on show and a…
HARLOW Junior parkrun celebrated their seventh birthday in style on Sunday morning. Fifty junior athletes, with their families, ran, jogged, hopped, skipped and walked their way around the 2km course in the showground field. Taking part today were four children, Taylor, Felix, Henry and Tegan…
HARLOW Running and Tri Club competed in the Scott’s Travel Midweek Road Race League Mob Match last week in a 10k race at Welwyn Garden City. This is where all three divisions compete in a race before an awards ceremony where team and individual awards…
SANDY, in Bedfordshire played host to Harlow AC’s round 3 match in the Southern Athletics League, on Sunday 9 July. The club had hoped to have a host of athletes available, following exams. However, this did not happen and so seventeen athletes fulfilled the fixture.…
HARLOW Running and Tri Club were represented at the High Easter 10k where Rob Lowe led the way in 13th place out 1829 finishers and 1st Male Vet 50 in an excellent 35min 28sec. He was followed by Martin Westley in 20th place in 37.14.…
HARLOW Running and Tri Club competed in the 4th and final race of the Scott’s Travel Midweek Road Race League, Div 2, last week over a very hilly 10k trail course at Trent Park. The team finished in 5th place out of 6 teams on…





