Liverpool Harriers and Athletic Club is a British athletics club based in Liverpool, England. The club is based primarily at the Wavertree Athletics Centre on Wellington Road and train on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
History
The club was founded as a cross-country club on 27 September 1882, following a meeting at the Farnworth Hotel on Prescot Road. In 1885, the club won the English National Cross Country Championships, with the runners consisting of Paddy Shay, Edward McCabe, Tommy Duckett, George Henry Bannister, P. Giblin and McAffee.
It is believed that towards the end of the century that the club were also referred to as Liverpool Sefton Park and All Saints but on Monday 19 November 1894, the club was renamed the Liverpool Harriers & Athletic Club.
The club's first Olympian was Benjamin Howard Baker who competed in the high jump event at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.
From 1943 to 1970 the club were based at Woolton Woods, followed by Woolton Boys Club from 1970 to 1980 and Woolton Priory from 1980 until 1990. The club moved to its present site at the Wavertree Athletics Centre in 1990.
The club continue to produce international class athletes, with the latest star being double world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson.
Honours English National Cross Country Championships winners: 1885
Notable athletes Olympians AthleteEventsGamesMedals/RefBenjamin Howard Baker high jump, triple jump 1912, 1920Ken Box 100m, 4x100m 1956Tom Farrell 400m hurdles, 800m 1956, 1960Joe Speake 4x100m1968Keith Oliver XC Sking, biathlon1972, 1976, 1980Barry Williams hammer throw 1972 John Woods marathon 1988Geoff Smith 10,000m 1980Curtis Robb 800m 1992, 1996Steve Smith high jump 1992, 1996 Paul Brizzel 100m, 200m, 4x100m2000 Paul McKee4 x 400m2000 John McAdorey 4 x 100m2000Allyn Condon bobsleigh2010+Anyika Onuora 100m, 200m 4x400m 2012, 2016Katarina Johnson-Thompson heptathlon 2012, 2016, 2020 English unless stated +Trained with the club during bobsleigh career
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