Birchfield Harriers

Information about Birchfield Harriers

Birchfield Harriers is an athletics club, founded in 1877. Its home is at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium, England.

Their previous home, at nearby Perry Barr, is now Perry Barr Greyhound Stadium. It still carries their badge, a leaping deer, rendered in this case in Art Deco style, carved in 1929 and attributed to William Bloye[1].

As well as welcoming recreational runners they cater for all levels of experience up to and including Olympic athletes whether able-bodied or wheelchair-using athletes.

The Club's motto is Fleet and Free.

Athletes at the Club

Bibliography

  • Fleet and Free — A History of Birchfield Harriers Athletic Club, Gareth Rogers with Wilfred Morgan and Tom McCook, Tempus, (2005) ISBN 0-7524-3523-X

References

1. ^ Public Sculpture of Birmingham, George T. Noszlopy, Liverpool University Press, 1998, ISBN 085323-682-8

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Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping. The name is derived from the Greek word "athlon" meaning "contest".
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City of Birmingham
Birmingham Skyline viewed from Centenary Square

Coat of Arms of the City Council
Nickname: "Brum = Scum", "Brummagem", "Second City", "Workshop of the World", "City of a Thousand Trades"
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The Alexander Stadium is the main athletics stadium located within Perry Park in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England, at grid reference SP065925 . It has staged the Amateur Athletics Association Championships, and was the venue of the 1998 Disability World Athletics Championships.
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Motto
Dieu et mon droit   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is "God Save the Queen".
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Perry Barr is an area in north Birmingham, England.

It is also a council constituency, managed by its own district committee. The constituency includes the smaller Perry Barr ward and the wards of Handsworth Wood, Lozells and East Handsworth, and Oscott.
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Cervidae
Goldfuss, 1820

Subfamilies

Capreolinae/Odocoileinae
Cervinae
Hydropotinae
Muntiacinae

A deer is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae.
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Art Deco was a popular design movement from 1920 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts, and film.
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William James Bloye (1890 - 6 June 1975) was a sculptor, active in Birmingham either side of World War II.

He studied, and later, taught at the Birmingham School of Art, where one of his pupils was Raymond Mason.
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Olympic Games (often referred to simply as The Olympics or The Games[1]) is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years (an Olympiad[2]).
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Athletics may refer to:
  • Athletics (track and field), a sport, comprising a group of athletic events or disciplines, each of which involves either running, walking, throwing or jumping

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A wheelchair is a wheeled mobility device in which the user sits. The device is propelled either manually (by pushing the wheels with the hands) or via various automated systems.
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Coat of arms elements
A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization.
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Gold 2000 Sydney Heptathlon
Bronze 1996 Atlanta Heptathlon
World Championships
Silver 1997 Athens Heptathlon
Silver 1999 Sevilla Heptathlon
Commonwealth Games
Gold 1994 Victoria Heptathlon
Gold 1998 Kuala Lumpur Heptathlon
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Gold 2004 Athens 4x100 m relay
World Championships
Bronze 2005 Helsinki 4x100 m relay
Bronze 2007 Osaka 4x100 m relay

Mark Lewis-Francis (born September 4, 1982 in Darlaston) is an English sprint athlete.
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Olympic medal record
Women’s Athletics
Bronze Sydney 2000 400m

Katharine Merry (born September 21, 1974 at Dunchurch, Rugby), is a former English female sprinter.
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Robert Weir (born February 4, 1961 in Birmingham) is a retired English discus thrower.

His personal best throw was 65.08 metres, achieved in August 2000 in Bedford. This places him fifth among English discus throwers, behind Perriss Wilkins, Richard Slaney, Glen Smith and
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Daniel Stephen Caines (born May 15, 1979 in Solihull) is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. He was educated at Solihull School. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, he has been a fairly successful relay runner.
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Ashia Hansen (born 5 December 1971 in Evansville, Indiana, U.S.) is an athlete who is considered Britain's greatest-ever female triple jumper.

Although born in the USA, Hansen was adopted at the age of 3 months by a Ghanaian father and a British mother and grew up in the UK
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Medal record

Kelly Sotherton

Women's athletics
Olympic Games
Bronze 2004 Athens Heptathlon
World Championships
Bronze 2007 Osaka Heptathlon
Commonwealth Games
Gold 2006 Melbourne Heptathlon Kelly Jade Sotherton
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