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Joy Ogunleye and Rebecca Jeggo flew the flag for Colchester Harriers at this year’s senior British Indoor Championships at Birmingham Arena over the weekend of 9th / 10th February. Broadcast live through the BBC red button and British Athletics website supporters were able to enjoy watching these two talented athletes from their armchairs. Making her debut appearance at the Championships, Ogunleye, 18,  was drawn in lane two of the first of four heats for the women’s 60m. Even with a great start which put her ahead out of the blocks, she was unable to match the might of world... read more

A history of the Club in the 80s and a number of Club minute books have been uploaded to the site. Some of the written pages are fine but with the right contract legible. Hopefully will be of interest to site visitors. Some famous and "notorious" names among the many pages. Please click on the link... read more

Ramadam Osman had a terrific run at the Great Bentley Half marathon which was run in near perfect conditions.  Osman clocked a superb 1hr 08m 53s to win the race, eighty seconds clear of the second place runner. New signing Mark McKeown was 16th in an excellent 1hr 16m 35s, Jason Gunn strode home in 18th spot in 1hr 16m 45s. Paul Rodgers won the over 45 prize clocking a personal best 1hr 18m 40s. Second over 45 was Paul Preston in 1hr 18m 57s. Gavin Scanlon clocked 1hr 20m 02s, then came Wayne Cook 1hr 21m 59s, Colin Ridley 1hr 23m 31s (1st over 55 ), Keith Marley 1hr 24m 41s, Craig... read more

Saturday 2nd February and day one of the Essex and Eastern Counties Indoor Championships at Lee Valley belonged to experienced sprinter Joy Ogunleye. After a blistering start in her U20W 60m heat, she closed off the gas with ten metres to the line to qualify through to the final.  Hours later and she was back to challenge for the gold medal.  Looking strong and confident in warm up, she committed from the gun and delivered a fine performance to cross the line with air between her and second place in a new Championship Best Performance, PB and Club Record of 7.64s. U13... read more

Here are details of a local 5k multi terrain race taking place at the University of Essex on Saturday 2nd March starting at 11am. Peter Chillingworth, Mayor of Colchester invites you to take part in a 5 km run at the Essex University Colchester campus at 11.00 am on Saturday 2nd March. All proceeds will go to the six Mayor’s charities shown above. The Mayor would like to thank the University and staff for their cooperation in organising the event. He is also very grateful for their support to Birkett Long, solicitors, Nicolas Percival estate agents and Colchester Trophies for... read more

The toughest Cross Country in Britain is probably the senior men’s Southern Cross Country Championship held over 15,000m of Parliament Hills.  The iconic course with the famous hill is a real test and the best of the south's runners are always here. Colchester Harriers had targeted the   Essex Cup for the first Essex county team to get twelve runners home. With injuries to three of the team during the build up to the race, it was a tough call but the Harriers shone through with true grit from a couple of team members finishing although ill or injured to bring the trophy home for the... read more

The South of England AA Indoor age group Championships, held at Lee Valley over the weekends of 12/13th January and 19/ 20 January, saw a number of Harriers T & F athletes open their 2019 track season. Kicking off was Maya Rattray in the U17w 60m on Saturday 12 January. Using the experience as a chance to test how her training is going and also to lay down a new PB , she ran well to finish 5th in her heat in 8.26s and ending the day in the top half of the field of over 40 athletes. For Joy Ogunleye and Rebecca Jeggo, the championships on 19/20th were accomplished in good style,... read more

A number of Colchester Harriers young athletics competed for North East Essex in the Essex Schools Cross Country Championships at the Apex Playing Fields, Hockley on Saturday. The best placed Harrier was Milly Presland who finished sixth in the Inter Girls race to qualify for the English Schools Cross Country Championships at Leeds in a few weeks time. Madeleine Claydon finished in a fine 27th place. In the Inter boys race Chris Smith finished 37th. Five Harriers were part of the North East Essex team that finished second in the Senior Boys race. Danny Millward continued his fine... read more

Colchester Harriers Richard Flutter reached a landmark 250 Park runs at the weekend running in the Treviso Park run in Italy. Flutter finished 2nd in 19m 58s with team mate Debbie Cattermole 3rd and first lady in 21m 55s, both Harriers set new age group records. The Benfleet 15 is a very tough muddy off road race, always run in very cold conditions, it is a real test for runners, but James Wright had an excellent run leading the green vests home in 13th spot in an impressive 1h 39m 54s. Gavin Scanlon 1h 43m 01s had a good battle with Paul Rodgers 1h 43m 41s. They finished in 21st and... read more

The club inflicted a rare home defeat on rivals Ipswich JAFFA in the fourth round of the North Essex and South Suffolk Cross Country league. With two races to go the Harriers lead by five points, meaning just finishing third in each of the remaining fixtures will bring the title back to Colchester for the first time in many years. The Orwell Bridge Suffolk Food Hall course saw some great performances by the senior athletes from the men and ladies who both won and both girls and boys junior teams who also won; it was a whitewash by the Harriers. Ramadam Osman who had the day previous... read more