1908 AAA Championships

1908 AAA Championships
1908 AAA Championships
Dates	4 July 1908
Host city	London, England
Venue	White City Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	16
	← 1907 1909 → ; AAA Championships

The 1908 AAA Championships was the 1908 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held on Saturday 4 July 1908 at the White City Stadium in London, England. The attendance was 22,000 and included Prince Albert of Wales (later George VI).^[1]^[2]

The Championships consisted of 16 events.

Canadian Robert Kerr completed a sprint double

Results

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 yards	Robert Kerr	10.0	Reginald Walker	1 yd	John Morton	inches
220 yards	Robert Kerr	22.4	Lionel Reed	5 yd	John George	1 yd
440 yards	Wyndham Halswelle	49.4	Edwin Montague Edward Ryle	5 yd 5 yd	not awarded
880 yards	Theodore Just	1:58.2	Ivo Fairbairn-Crawford	8-10 yd	J. W. Monument	5 yd
1 mile	Harold Wilson	4:20.2	Joe Deakin	10 yd	Francis Knott	2-4 yd
4 miles	Emil Voigt	19:47.4	Archie Robertson	19:52.8	A. Edward Wood	19:53.6
10 miles	Alexander Duncan	53:40.6	Joe Deakin	53:41.4	Thomas Jack	53:42.0
steeplechase	Reginald Noakes	10:35.0	Arthur Russell	5-10 yd	William Grantham	5-30 yd
120yd hurdles	John Duncker	16.2	Oswald Groenings	½ yd	Henry Murray	1 ft-2 yd
2 miles walk	George Larner	13:58.4	Ernest Webb	14:05.6	Richard Harrison	14:14.6
7 miles walk	Ernest Webb	53:02.6	Frank Carter	53:43.0	William Palmer	54:25.0
high jump	Con Leahy	1.803	Axel Hedenlund	1.778	Oswald Groenings Walter Henderson	1.753
pole jump	Ed Archibald	3.66	Bruno Söderström	3.60	Alexandre de Petrofsky Carl Silfverstrand	3.05 3.05
long jump	Wilfred Bleaden	6.79	Denis Murray	6.61	John Pattison	6.45
shot put	Denis Horgan	13.59	Tom Kirkwood	13.40	Hugo Wieslander	12.15
hammer throw	Simon Gillis	50.12	Denis Horgan	40.00	Robert Lindsay-Watson	33.79

References

^ "Prince Albert watches Stadium Sports". Daily Mirror. 6 July 1908. Retrieved 11 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA Championships". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 6 July 1908. Retrieved 11 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 11 July 2024.

[1] "Prince Albert watches Stadium Sports". Daily Mirror. 6 July 1908. Retrieved 11 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[2] "AAA Championships". Birmingham Daily Gazette. 6 July 1908. Retrieved 11 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[3] "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 11 July 2024.

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