1898 AAA Championships

1898 AAA Championships
1898 AAA Championships
Dates	2 July 1898
Host city	London, England
Venue	Stamford Bridge (stadium)
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	14
	← 1897 1899 → ; AAA Championships

The 1898 AAA Championships was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 2 July 1898 at the Stamford Bridge (stadium) in London, England, in front of 7,000 spectators.^[1]^[2]

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

Results

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 yards	Frederick Cooper	10.0 =NR	Norman Morgan (N Ireland)	inches	Reginald Wadsley	inches
440 yards	William Fitzherbert	50.0	James Meredith	½ yd	Charles Davison	½ yd
880 yards	Albert Relf	1:56.2	William Lutyens	4 yd	Alan Hunter	10 yd
1 mile	Hugh Welsh	4:17.2	William Lutyens	16-20 yd	D. G. Harris	4:32.0
4 miles	Charles Bennett	20:14.4	Henry Munro	25 yd	Jason Tennant	100 yd
10 miles	Sidney Robinson	53:12.0	Charles Bennett	53:18.0	Edward Barlow	53:22.0
steeplechase	George Orton	11:48.4	Charles Lee	80 yd	A.E. Williamson	20 yd
120yd hurdles	Howard Parkes	16.4	Tom Kiely	3 yd	Patrick Harding
4 miles walk	William Sturgess	29:10.0	Jack Butler	30:15.8	G. Topliss	30:41.0
high jump	Patrick Leahy	1.819	Robert Perry & Henry Adair	1.753	not awarded
pole jump	James Poole	3.12	E. C. Pritchard	3.07	A. Fraser	2.66
long jump	William Newburn	7.19 NR	Gilbert Vassall	6.60	Edmund Faunce de Laune	6.45
shot put	Denis Horgan	13.71	Nigel Harrison	11.44	R. E. Bascombe	9.88
hammer throw	Tom Kiely	42.70	Denis Horgan	38.28	Walter Lawrence	33.50

References

^ "The Amateur Athletic Championships". Sporting Life. 4 July 1898. Retrieved 6 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Amateur Athletic Association Championships". London Evening Standard. 4 July 1898. Retrieved 6 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 6 July 2024.

[1] "The Amateur Athletic Championships". Sporting Life. 4 July 1898. Retrieved 6 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[2] "Amateur Athletic Association Championships". London Evening Standard. 4 July 1898. 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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