1897 AAA Championships

1897 AAA Championships
1897 AAA Championships
Dates	3 July 1897
Host city	Manchester, England
Venue	Fallowfield Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	14
	← 1896 1898 → ; AAA Championships

The 1897 AAA Championships was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 3 July 1897 at the Fallowfield Stadium in Manchester, England, in front of 3,000 spectators.^[1]^[2]

The 14 events were the same number as in the previous year and all 14 event disciplines remained the same.

Alfred Tysoe won the mile and 10 miles events

Results

^[3]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 yards	J. H. Palmer	10.8	Henry Woodyatt	1 ft	Jimmy Tremeer	½ yd
440 yards	Samuel Elliott	53.2	E. Harrison Kenyon	1 ft	J. Donaldson	1½ yd
880 yards	Albert Relf	2:00.4	Cyril Dickinson	1½ yd	D. Wentworth	½ yd
1 mile	Alfred Tysoe	4:27.0	Robert Wellin	1 yd	Henry Cullum	10 yd
4 miles	Charles Bennett	20:27.4	C. E. Haydon	1½ yd	Edward Barlow
10 miles	Alfred Tysoe	55:59.6	Henry Harrison	55:59.8	Edward Barlow	4 yd
steeplechase	George Lee	12:15.4	H. Evans	60 yd	only 2 finished
120yd hurdles	Alfred Trafford	17.4	I. A. E. Mulligan	3 yd	Henry Coltart
4 miles walk	William Sturgess	28:24.8	E. J. Topple	29:40.0	M. K. Forrester	29:47.0
high jump	Claude Leggatt	1.753	Robert Perry	1.740	John MacFarlane Charles Adams	1.702 1.702
pole jump	James Poole	3.01	Edwin Newby	2.93	Denis Carey	2.89
long jump	Claude Leggatt	6.50	R. D. Barbour	6.31	Tom Donovan	5.97
shot put	Denis Horgan	13.82	Richard Sheldon	13.54	only 2 competitors
hammer throw	Tom Kiely	43.42	Denis Horgan	38.62	Richard Sheldon	31.14

References

^ "Amateur Athletic Championships". Nottingham Guardian. 5 July 1897. Retrieved 6 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Amateur Athletic Championships". London Evening Standard. 5 July 1897. Retrieved 6 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 6 July 2024.

[1] "Amateur Athletic Championships". Nottingham Guardian. 5 July 1897. Retrieved 6 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[2] "Amateur Athletic Championships". London Evening Standard. 5 July 1897. Retrieved 6 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[3] "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 6 July 2024.

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