1899 AAA Championships

Outdoor track and field competition

International athletics championship event

1899 AAA Championships
Dates	1 July 1899
Host city	Wolverhampton, England
Venue	Molineux Grounds
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	14
← 1898 1900 → AAA Championships

The 1899 AAA Championships was the 1899 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held on Saturday 1 July 1899 at the Molineux Grounds in Wolverhampton, England, in front of 5,000 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	Reginald Wadsley	10.2	Claude Jupp	½ yd	Frederick Cooper	2 yd
440 yards	Reginald Wadsley	54.6	Herbert Pride-Jones	2 ft	Charles Sheppard	5 yd
880 yards	Alfred Tysoe	1:58.6	William Lutyens	4 ft	Joseph Binks	15 yd
1 mile	Hugh Welsh	4:25.0	Charles Bennett	1½ yd	Robert Wellin	10 yd
4 miles	Charles Bennett	20:49.6	Arthur Hutchings	20:58.6	Edward Ratcliffe	21:10.6
10 miles	Charles Bennett	54:18.4	John Rimmer	54:37.4	George Smith	55:31.6
steeplechase	Walter Stokes	11:16.8	W.S. Ingmere	120 yd	Henry Lloyd	80 yd
120yd hurdles	William Paget-Tomlinson	16.4	Alfred Trafford	1½ yd	Joseph Gould
4 miles walk	William Sturgess	29:20.6	Jack Butler	29:47.0	E. Middleton	31:07.4
high jump	Patrick Leahy IRE	1.784	Claude Leggatt	1.734	Robert Perry	1.683
pole vault	E.C. Pritchard	2.77	G. Pheysey	nh	only 2 competitors
long jump	William Newburn IRE	6.75	Hugh Barr	6.52	Claude Leggatt	6.04
shot put	Denis Horgan IRE	14.03	R. Nelson Robbie	10.72	only 2 competitors
hammer throw	Tom Kiely IRE	41.57	Denis Horgan IRE	40.14	R. Nelson Robbie	33.84

References

^ "The Amateur Athletic Association Championships". Sporting Life. 3 July 1899. Retrieved 6 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Amateur Athletic Association Championships". Morning Post. 3 July 1899. Retrieved 6 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 6 July 2024.