1897 AAA Championships

The 1897 AAA Championships was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 3 July 1897 at the Fallowfield Stadium in Manchester, England, in front of 3,000 spectators.^[1]^[2]

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

Results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 yards	J.H. Palmer	10.8	Henry Woodyatt	1 ft	Leonard Tremeer	½ yd
440 yards	Samuel Elliott	53.2	E. Harrison Kenyon	1 ft	J. Donaldson	1½ yd
880 yards	Albert Relf	2:00.4	Cyril Dickinson IRE	1½ yd	D. Wentworth	½ yd
1 mile	Alfred Tysoe	4:27.0	Robert Wellin	1 yd	Henry Cullum	10 yd
4 miles	Charles Bennett	20:27.4	C.E. Haydon	1½ yd	Edward Barlow
10 miles	Alfred Tysoe	55:59.6	Henry Harrison	55:59.8	Edward Barlow	4 yd
steeplechase	George Lee	12:15.4	H. Evans	60 yd	only 2 finished
120yd hurdles	Alfred Trafford	17.4	I.A.E. Mulligan IRE	3 yd	Henry Coltart
4 miles walk	William Sturgess	28:24.8	E.J. Topple	29:40.0	M.K. Forrester	29:47.0
high jump	Claude Leggatt	1.753	Robert Perry	1.740	John MacFarlane & Charles Adams	1.702
pole vault	James Poole	3.01	Edwin Newby	2.93	Denis Carey IRE	2.89
long jump	Claude Leggatt	6.50	R.D. Barbour IRE	6.31	Tom Donovan IRE	5.97
shot put	Denis Horgan IRE	13.82	Richard Sheldon USA	13.54	only 2 competitors
hammer throw	Denis Horgan IRE	13.82	Richard Sheldon USA	13.54	only 2 competitors