Liverpool Harriers and Athletic Club
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
- English unless stated