1887 AAA Championships - Misplaced Pages

Outdoor track and field competition

International athletics championship event

1887 AAA Championships
Dates	2 July 1887
Host city	Stourbridge, England
Venue	Stourbridge Cricket Ground
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	14
← 1886 1888 → AAA Championships

The 1887 AAA Championships was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 2 July 1887 at Stourbridge Cricket Ground, Stourbridge, England.

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

Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 yards	Arthur Wharton	10.1	Charles Wood	½ yd	Herbert Fletcher	10.37
440 yards	Charles Wood	51.0	Alfred Le Maitre	7 yd	Alfred Hind	5 yd
880 yards	Francis Cross	1.59.0	Alfred Le Maitre	3½ yd	only 2 finished
1 mile	Francis Cross	4.25.4	James Kibblewhite	2 yd	F. Mills	10 yd
4 miles	Edward Carter	21.10.0	F. Mills	21.33.6	only 2 finished
10 miles	Edward Carter	55.09.0	A. Houlding	57.01.0	Sidney Thomas	57.37.0
steeplechase	M.A. Harrison	12.08.4	E. Wall	120-220 yd	only 2 competed
120yd hurdles	John Le Fleming	16.2	Sherard Joyce	1¼ yd	Arthur Gould	¾ yd
7 miles walk	Christopher Clarke	56.59.8	Edward Lange	57.00.0	J.R. Lewis	57.52.5
high jump	George Rowdon & William Page	1.829	not awarded		Francis Fogg	1.753
pole vault	Tom Ray	3.38	F.G.F. Thompson	3.05	T. Stanley Green	2.89
long jump	Francis Roberts	6.81	John Purcell	6.63	only 2 competed
shot put	James Mitchel	11.92	F.G.F. Thompson	11.21	Tom Stone	11.00
hammer throw	James Mitchel	37.80	F.G.F. Thompson	23.78	only 2 competed

References

"Athletics". Freeman's Journal. 4 July 1887. Retrieved 3 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
"Gossip and Sport". Sporting Life. 2 July 1887. Retrieved 3 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
"The Amateur Athletic Championships". Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. 4 July 1887. Retrieved 3 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
"AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 3 July 2024.

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