Liverpool Harriers and Athletic Club is a British athletics club based in
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...
, 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
The English National Cross Country Championships is an annual English cross country running event which takes place in late February following the regional championships (Southern, Midlands and Northern) which all take place on the same weekend ...
, 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
Benjamin Howard Baker (13 February 1892 – 10 September 1987) was an English athlete who excelled in a wide range of sports, mostly in association football and high jump.high jump event at the
1912 Summer Olympics
The 1912 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad () and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 6 July and 22 July 1912. The opening ceremony was he ...
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
Katarina Mary Johnson-Thompson, (born 9 January 1993) is an English athlete. A multi-eventer, she is primarily known as both a heptathlete and an indoor pentathlete. In heptathlon she is a double world champion, double Commonwealth Games c ...
.
Honours
*
English National Cross Country Championships
The English National Cross Country Championships is an annual English cross country running event which takes place in late February following the regional championships (Southern, Midlands and Northern) which all take place on the same weekend ...
winners: 1885
Notable athletes
Olympians
*English unless stated
+Trained with the club during bobsleigh career