Club History – Athletic Successes over 100 years –

Club History – Athletic Successes over 100 years –

1908       Jack Price London Olympic Marathon

                (The Dorando marathon)

       Competing as Birchfield Harriers 1922-1942

International Cross Country Championships

 (now World  Cross Country Championships)

1924/25/26/28    J (Eddie) Webster        Winner in 1925

1930       Stan Smith

1934       A Robinson

1937       J Biggs

1948       Albert Shorrocks  (Competing as Halesowen)

1924       Olympics (Paris)   Eddie Webster

1930       British Empire Games (Hamilton,Ontario)                             ( Now Commonwealth Games)        Stan Smith

AAA Championships

1926               4 miles           Eddie Webster

1925/28        10 Miles         Eddie Webster

1925/26/27/28    2 mile steeplechase    Eddie Webster

1930       Polytechnic Marathon        Stan Smith

 Individual winner and first team with H Smith &

H Johnson

1948       Midland 7 mile XC       Winner J Kendall & First      Team

1978       Annual visits by a French Athletic Club.

1989       World Masters Championship (Oregon)

Joanne Smallwood      W45 High Jump Champion   with a World  Record 1.55m.

2008       Commonwealth Youth Games (Puna,India)

                Nick Cruchley, Pole Vault

2010       Midland 7 mile XC               Team Winners

2017       Home Countries Cross Country Championships

                (Belfast)

                Paul Allen (Wales) & John Hill (England)

                English fell Running Team (Italy)      Lily Higgins

                Home Nation T & F Championship(Cardiff)

                Katrina Simpson, Molly Jenks, Josie Oliarnyk & Charles Hilliard

                Manchester International          Josie Oliarnyk

2018       England Senior Team (Bratislava)

Josie Oliarnyk       Long Jump 3rd place

2019       Josie Oliarnyk

England Senior Team  (Reykjavik & Bratislava)

                England U 20 team      (Cardiff)         Winner

                England U20 team       (Mannheim)  Second

                European U20  Championship (Boras,Sweden)

                Midland 7 mile XC       Team Winners

2021/22        British Indoor pole Vault Champion

                        Sophie Cook 

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