1927 AAA Championships

1927 AAA Championships
1927 AAA Championships
Dates	1–4 July 1927
Host city	London, England
Venue	Stamford Bridge
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	23
	← 1926 1928 → ; AAA Championships

The 1927 AAA Championships was the 1927 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 1 to 4 July 1927 at Stamford Bridge in London, England.[1][2][3]

The Championships consisted of 23 events and covered three days of competition. The marathon was held in Fallowfield, Manchester on 30 July.

Results

[4]

Douglas Lowe won the 440 and 880 yards events

Cyril Ellis won the mile race

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 yards	Helmut Körnig	10.1	Hubert Houben	1 ft	Harold Hodge	1½-2 yd
220 yards	Hubert Houben	21.8	Guy Butler	inches	Jokob Schuller	2 yd
440 yards	Douglas Lowe	48.8	Alfredo Gargiullo	5-6 yd	Roger Leigh-Wood	inches
880 yards	Douglas Lowe	1:54.6	Cecil Griffiths	1:56.8	René Feger	2 yd
1 mile	Cyril Ellis	4:17.0	Herbert Böcher	4:18.2	Séra Martin	2 yd
4 miles	Bror Ohrn	19:40.8	Charles Frith	19:42.4	Brian Oddie	60 yd
10 miles	Ernest Harper	52:21.2	George Constable	54:26.2	Louis Payne	55:23.2
marathon	Sam Ferris	2:48:46.4	Tom Heeley	3:00:22.4	C. E. Mitchell	3:02:13.6
steeplechase	Jack Webster	11:06.0	Edward Oliver	10:59.6	H. Blades	100 yd
120y hurdles	Frederick Gaby	14.9 NR	George Weightman-Smith	1 yd	Sten Pettersson
440y hurdles	Lord Burghley	54.2 WR	Thomas Livingstone-Learmonth	55.2	Luigi Facelli	55.4
2 miles walk	Alf Pope	14:21.6	Albert Fletcher	8 yd	C. C. Coulson	10 yd
7 miles walk	Wilf Cowley	55:46.4	L. G. Sandy	56:25.0	Edward Presland	56:59.0
high jump	Herbert Adolfsson	1.829	Con O'Connor Jack London Thomas Tweed	1.803	n/a
pole jump	Henry Lindblad	3.81	Henry Petersen	3.66	Janos Karlovits	3.66
long jump	Rudolf Dobermann	7.31	Eric Svensson	7.28	Willem Peters	7.28
triple jump	Willem Peters	15.47	Eric Svensson	14.92	Elemér Somfay	14.25
shot put	Georg Brechenmacher	14.18	József Darányi	14.16	Ernst Söllinger	13.62
discus throw	Kálmán Marvalits	44.40	Kalman Egri	43.76	Hans Hoffmeister	42.30
hammer throw	Ossian Skiöld	50.30	Malcolm Nokes	49.31	Josef Mang	42.71
javelin throw	Béla Szepes	64.80	Olav Sunde	62.12	Svend Gjorling	55.96
1 mile relay	Achilles Club	3m 19.2-5 sec	Surrey AC	50 yd	Herne Hill
Tug of war	M Division Met Police		London Fire Brigade		n/a

References

^ "Bid for Athletics titles". Daily News (London). 2 July 1927. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "An Olympiad". Weekly Dispatch (London). 3 July 1927. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Records go abroad". Western Daily Press. 5 July 1927. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 13 July 2024.

[1] "Bid for Athletics titles". Daily News (London). 2 July 1927. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[2] "An Olympiad". Weekly Dispatch (London). 3 July 1927. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

[3] "Records go abroad". Western Daily Press. 5 July 1927. Retrieved 13 July 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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

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