Another scintillating night of Mile racing at Wimbledon Park on 22 July saw winner Jack Kavanagh of Holland Sports, and second -placed athlete, Charlie Brisley (Newham & Essex Beagles) both dip under 4-minutes in the final race of the evening, the Dave Clarke Mile, sponsored by the Lauriston Runners Club.

In the 99th running of the Comrades Marathon, billed as 'The Ultimate Human Race’, on on 14 June Alex Milne finished a phenomenal fourth (neatly in his fourth appearance at the event). completing this year's 'Up" run of 85.77km from Durban to Pietermaritzburg (the race switches direction each year) in a PB of 5:22:29.

At the Southern (SEAA) Championships in Bedford (6/7 June) Benjy Street (U20), home from university in the US, took the gold medal in the SM 3000m Steeplechase, in 9:34.38. Seventeen-year old Maia Heward-Mills, also stepping up an age group, bagged the bronze medal in the U20W 100m in 12.00. Similarly, there was a bronze for U20 Mabel-Rose Scales in the Senior Women's High Jump, with a clearance of 1.65m.

It was another big night under the lights in Battersea for Andrew Penney on 22 May, this time on the track at the Millennium Arena, rather than the circuit around the park on which he consolidated his place at the top of the HW all time 5K road rankings with a PB of 13:49 in February.  

Club teams posted impressive wins in the inaugural matches in the Southern Athletics League (SAL) and Southern Vets League, with several athletes competing in both matches in the space of two days.

Over the weekend of 9/10 May Club athletes amassed an impressive 19 medals in an encouraging cross-section of events on track and field at the main County Championships in Kingston (part 2 of the now customary Surrey game of three-halves).

On a historic day in London in which Sabastian Sawe of Kenya and runner-up and marathon-debutant Yomif Kejelcha of Ethiopia both broke 2 hours for the first time under race conditions, the Club fielded 35 finishers, three of whom lined up in the Elite start, with six finishing in under 2:30.

Congratulations to the Senior Men’s team who brought home the bronze medals at the Southern 12-Stage Relays at Milton Keynes yesterday. The B team were 29th, while in the 6-stage event the Senior Women were 20th. Full report to follow.

Freddie Arkell (above left) won gold in 6.79 in the Senior Men's 60m at the Surrey Indoors Championships over the weekend of 14/15 March in an event which saw a handful of club medals as the new junior age groups were introduced.

Barely a month after setting a new Club record of 2:11:41 in the Seville marathon, Alex Milne (above centre) won the World 50km Championships in New Delhi today (14 March), leading the Novuna Great Britain and Northern Ireland team to victory, and setting a new European record of 2:46:09 (subject to ratification) in the process in the warm ((21°C)) and humid conditions.

Meanwhile, on the same day, Lisa Thomas was part of a W60 4 × 400m team which set a new World Indoor Masters record at Lee Valley.

U15 Theo Creed (left) won a second Inter-County cross country title at Wollaton Park, Nottingham, on 7 March, the same venue at which he took the U13 title in 2024. In doing so he led the Surrey team, which included HW club-mate James Fraser in 27th, to the silver medals.

At the British Masters Indoor Championships at Lee Valley over the weekend of 21/22 February Anna Garnier, W70 ,won triple golds in the 800m (in 2:59.61); 1500m (6:07.78) and 400m (1:19.08) to add to the 3000m title she took in Cardiff in January.

Peter Giles, M80, completed the double, winning the 800m in 3:07.24 and the 1500m in 6:13.78 (both were new British indoor records). Lisa Thomas, W60, took the silver in both the 800m in 2:37.77; and the 400m in 1:06.61.

Congratulations to U15 Theo Creed on becoming National Cross Country Champion and leading teammates James Fraser (22nd), Anas Briki (27th) and Dylan Gilbert (47th) to team gold in Sedgefield, County Durham today. Theo was impressive from the start, moving directly to the front of the 300+ field, then gradually winding it up and stretching out his lead to take the win comfortably.

Alex Milne shattered Club Chairman Dave Clarke’s 37 year old Marathon Club record today in Seville over the fast flat course through the beautiful city, clocking 2:11:41 to finish in 30th in a race won in 2:03:59 by Ethiopian Tola Shura Kitata in a dramatic photofinish.

The Club’s young athletes won four medals at the England U15-U20 Indoor Championships in Sheffield over the weekend of 7/8 February.

At the Southern (SEAA) U20 and Senior Championships at Lee Valley on 31 January/1 February there were gold medals for Maia Heward-Mills in the 60m (in a PB of 7.47) and Adam Ofeimun in the 200m in 21.90.

This is the picture we have waited 56 years to see! Having finished in the silver medal position for the last two years the Club’s Senior Men were finally crowned Southern Cross Country Champions yesterday in Beckenham Place Park - the first win since the legends team of 1970 clinched the title. It was a day that started and ended with medals, as the U15 Boys kicked off proceedings with a silver team medal and an individual silver for Theo Creed. Full report to follow.

At the Southern (SEAA) U13-U17 Indoor Championships at Lee Valley over the weekend (10/11 January) Thomas Whorton won the gold medal in the U17M 800m to add to his 1500m gold at the SEAA Indoor Middle Distance Championships on 13 December.