1899 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]

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 14 events were the same number as in the previous year and all 14 event disciplines remained the same.

Tom Kiely won his third consecutive hammer title

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	1.784	Claude Leggatt	1.734	Robert Perry	1.683
pole jump	E.C. Pritchard	2.77	G. Pheysey	nh	only 2 competitors
long jump	William Newburn	6.75	Hugh Barr	6.52	Claude Leggatt	6.04
shot put	Denis Horgan	14.03	R. Nelson Robbie	10.72	only 2 competitors
hammer throw	Tom Kiely	41.57	Denis Horgan	40.14	R. Nelson Robbie	33.84