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Best of British #19 (Katarina Johnson-Thompson)
Katarina Johnson-Thompson is the current British heptathlon record holder (amassing 6891 points) as well as World Champion after winning gold at Doha, Qatar where the record was broken. KJT had lived in the shadows of Jessica Ennis-Hill for a number of years as her team mate won European, World and Olympic titles while some individual
Best of British #18 (Tessa Sanderson)
Today’s best of British was another Javelin thrower, Tessa Sanderson who competed in six Olympic games, (yes six) winning gold in Los Angeles in 1984. This was Great Britain’s first gold medal in the discipline since the introduction of the games in 1896. Here’s Tessa in action
Best of British #17 (Greg Rutherford)
Greg Rutherford was a double European Champion as well as World and Olympic Champion in the long jump discipline and was one of the three gold medal winners in that mad 45 minute period when London 2012 went crazy (Jess Ennis and Mo Farah being the other two). Greg’s life could have been so different
Best of British #16 (Jonathan Edwards)
Todays Best of British is… Jonathan Edwards A London born triple jumper who lives here in the North East of England….why would you want to live anywhere else? Olympic and Double World Champion Jonathan, is still World record holder with a leap of 18.29 (he actually beat this when he leaped to 18.43 but wind
Best of British #15 (Daley Thompson)
Anyone born in the 1970’s will remember Daley Thompson for several reasons. Winning the Olympic Gold Medal in decathlon Whistling ‘God save the Queen’ on the podium, causing uproar amongst some of the British Press The Lucozade advert Daley Thompson’s Decathlon on either the Commodore 64 or ZX Spectrum.
Best of British #14 (Jessica Ennis-Hill)
Sheffield born Jessica Ennis-Hill is a former World number one Heptathlete who achieved European, World (x3), and Olympic Gold medals. She was also Gold medallist in the Indoor World Championships in Doha in 2010. Jess Ennis took some time out of the sport to have a baby and on her return achieved World Champion status
Lee and Jen Race to the Stones! (virtually)
Last week we had two athletes complete the Virtual Race to the Stones. Under normal circumstances, Race to the Stones is a 100km ultra marathon along one of the oldest trails in Britain – The Ridgeway, which crosses North Wessex Downs and the Chilterns. However, due to the current situation the event was understandably cancelled
Best of British #13 (Fatima Whitbread)
Next up in our series covering our favourite British athletics stars, it is… Fatima Whitbread Britain’s first throws record holder, she has undoubtedly been our best female javelin thrower of all time. Whilst Olympic gold may have eluded her, she medalled twice, whilst winning the World and European championships, as well as being the world
Virtual Race Fundraising
Huge thank you to all our members who have taken part in the recent #DHACVirtual fundraising events – we have raised a total of £126 for The County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust We’ve had a total of 63 different athletes competing, covering a total of 169.66 miles across the four events. In addition to
John’s Ride in the Clouds
As many of our members will already know, John Russell is not only one of our top U17 runners but a triathlete as well. So it will come as no surprise that he has been clocking up the miles on his bike, up to 200 miles a week recently (yes that’s 200 miles a WEEK!).
Best of British #12 (Zola Budd)
Next up in our series covering our favourite British athletics stars, it is… Zola Budd Best remembered for her bare foot running and that ‘Mary Decker incident’. Zola was born in South Africa and competed for both Great Britain and South Africa at the Olympic Games, but shot to fame at the tender age of
Best of British #11 (Roger Black)
Next up in our series covering our favourite British athletics stars, it is… Roger Black Roger Black was a double European Champion over 400m, as well as achieving silver over the same distance at the Atlanta Olympics where he was beaten by the legendary Michael Johnson. Johnson at the time was World record holder and
Best of British #10 (Paula Radcliffe)
Next up in our series covering our favourite British athletics stars, it is… Paula Radcliffe Paula was the former Women’s marathon world record holder which she held for 16 years after running 2.15.25; an incredible time by any standards. Paula could be identified quite easily by an unusual head bobbing style when she ran but
Best of British #9 (Sally Gunnell)
Next up in our series covering our favourite British athletics stars, it is… Sally Gunnell Sally, awarded the MBE, and then OBE, is a former Olympic and World Champion and was the first 400m hurdler in history to hold both titles and break the World Record in the process. She is still Britain’s record holder
Best of British #8 (Steve Cram)
Next up in our series covering our favourite British athletics stars, it is… Steve Cram Sunderland fan (thought we’d get that one in for Cookie) Steve, nicknamed the Jarrow Arrow, won World Gold in the 1500m and broke the world record in both this event and the 2000m. Steve also won a silver medal at
Best Of British #7 (Dina Asher-Smith)
Next up in our series covering our favourite athletics moments from British athletes… Dina Asher-Smith If you’ve even been near athletics the last few years, you can’t fail to have noticed the rise in the sprinting ranks for Asher-Smith After taking silver at the Doha World Championships in 2019, she duly followed up with this
Best of British #6 (Steve Ovett)
Next up in our series covering our favourite athletics moments from British athletes… Steve Ovett Another great middle distance runner who had some fantastic battles with, amongst others, Seb Coe over 800m and 1500m. Double Olympic Gold medallist and former World Record Holder over three distances says it all.