1937 AAA Championships

1937 AAA Championships
1937 AAA Championships
Dates	16–17 July 1937
Host city	London, England
Venue	White City Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	25
	← 1936 1938 → ; AAA Championships

The 1937 AAA Championships was the 1937 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 16 to 17 July 1937 at White City Stadium in London, England.^[1]^[2]

The Championships consisted of 25 events and covered two days of competition. The decathlon was held at Loughborough on 21–22 August.

Results

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 yards	Cyril Holmes	9.9	Arthur Sweeney	1 yd	Ernest Page	2 ft
220 yards	Arthur Sweeney	21.9	Cyril Holmes	½ yd	Gyula Gyenes HUN	1 yd
440 yards	Bill Roberts	48.2	Ronald Wylde RSA	49.2	John Horsfall AUS	49.3
880 yards	Arthur Collyer	1:53.3	Frank Handley	1:53.5	Jim Alford	1:54.3
1 mile	Sydney Wooderson	4:12.2	Denis Pell	4:15.4	Robert Graham	4:15.9
3 miles	Peter Ward	14:19.8	János Kelen HUN	14:21.6	Jack Parker	14:32.0
6 miles	János Kelen HUN	30:07.8	Alex Burns	30:10.5	Lawrence Weatherill	30:38.2
10 miles	Reginald Walker	52:33.8	Alex Burns	52:37.0	Lawrence Weatherill	52:54.0
marathon	Donald Robertson	2:37:19.2	Stelios Kyriakides GRE	2:40:10.0	Albert Norris	2:41:41.0
steeplechase	William Wylie	10:27.0	Robert Sutherland	10:28.1	Henry Clark	10:33.0
120y hurdles	Don Finlay	14.5	John Thornton	2 yd	Jan Brasser NED	3 yd
440y hurdles	Jules Bosmans BEL	55.0	Christos Mantikas GRE	55.6	Robert Wallace IRL	2 yd
2 miles walk	Bert Cooper	13:58.2	Eddie Staker	14:24.4	Don Brown	14:33.4
7 miles walk	John Mikaelsson SWE	50:19.2	Harry Churcher	51:13.0	Fred Redman	51:55.0
high jump	John Newman	1.880	Charles Walker	1.880	Arthur Gold Richard O'Rafferty IRL	1.778
pole vault	John Dodd	3.68	Alfred Kinally	3.58	Alexander Gibson	3.58
long jump	Luz Long GER	7.48	Sam Beattie	7.19	William Breach	7.02
triple jump	Willem Peters NED	14.32	Bert Shillington	14.26	Jack Higginson jnr	13.90
shot put	Hans Wöllke GER	15.39	Robert Howland	13.89	A. Rosser	12.66
discus throw	Nicolaos Syllas GRE	49.18	Willi Schröder GER	47.39	Jeno Kulitzy HUN	44.12
hammer throw	Karl Hein GER	55.86	Erwin Blask GER	54.64	Otto Lutz GER	49.36
javelin throw	Stanley Wilson	59.18 NR	Ralph Blakeway RSA	57.80	Robert Turner	53.98
decathlon	Jim Miggins	4647	James Nesbitt	4506	N.A. Hewson	4361
440 yards relay	Blackheath Harriers	42.0sec	Magyar Athletikai Club Budapest	½ yd	Vuictoria Park Harriers	7 yd
Tug of war	Royal Army Service Corps		Cranleigh & District British Legion

References

^ "The Athletic Championships". Liverpool Daily Post. 17 July 1937. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Six records go by the board at White City". Evening Despatch. 19 July 1937. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 13 July 2024.

[1] "The Athletic Championships". Liverpool Daily Post. 17 July 1937. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[2] "Six records go by the board at White City". Evening Despatch. 19 July 1937. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[3] "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 13 July 2024.

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