{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name=1876 AAC Championships |Host city=London, England |Dates=10 April 1876 |Stadium=Lillie Bridge Grounds, London |Level= Senior |Type=Outdoor |Events= |Previous=1875 |Next= 1877 |Games= AAC Championships }}
The '''1876 AAC Championships''' was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Club (AAC). The championships were held on 10 April 1876, at the Lillie Bridge Grounds in London.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18760411/038/0006 |title=Amateur Athletic Club Championship Sports |work=London Evening Standard |date=11 April 1876 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=21 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000942/18760412/072/0003 |title=Miscellaneous |work=Hackney and Kingsland Gazette |date=12 April 1876 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=21 July 2024}}</ref>
{{clear}} == Results == <ref>{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=21 July 2024}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" |- !width=100|Event !colspan="3" width="380" style="background:gold;|1st !colspan="3" width="380" style="background:silver;|2nd !colspan="3" width="380" style="background:#CD7F32;|3rd |- |100 yards |Montague Shearman || Oxford UAC ||10.6 |Edward M. Salmon || Cambridge UAC ||¾ yd |E. Jenner Davies || late Cambridge UAC || |- |quarter-mile | Frederick T. Elborough||London AC || 52.4 |Alfred R. Lewis || Cambridge UAC ||4 yd | only 2 competitors|| || |- |half-mile | Frederick T. Elborough || London AC ||2:03.0 |Hon. Arthur L. Pelham || Cirencester Agricultural College ||1 yd |Henry Bryden ||London AC ||2 yd |- |1 mile |Walter Slade || London AC ||4:35.2 |Harold Lee-Evans ||late Cambridge UAC ||27 yd | only 2 competitors|| || |- |4 miles | Alfred Goodwin || Oxford UAC ||21:17.2 |Charles H. Mason || London AC || 3 yd |Julius C. Bendixen || South London Harriers ||120 yd |- |120yd hurdles |Alfred B. Loder || Cambridge UAC ||16.4 | John H. A. Reay || London AC ||3 yd |Francis J. W. Wood || late Harrow School ||3-4 yd |- |7 miles walk | Harry Venn || London AC ||55:11.8 |William J. Morgan || Atalanta RC ||dnf | only 1 finished|| || |- |high jump |Marshall Brooks || Oxford UAC ||1.829 | || || |only 1 competitor || || |- |pole jump |Horace W. Strachan || London AC ||3.07 | Charles W. Gaskin || Wisbech CC ||2.77 |only 2 competitors || || |- |long jump |John G. Alkin || Nuneaton AC ||6.48 | William E. Tomkin || late Eton ||6.40 |Francis J. W. Wood || late Harrow School ||6.16 |- |shot put |Tom Stone Jr. || Newton-le-Willows CC ||11.77 |William Y. Winthrop || London AC ||10.64 |only 2 competitors || || |- |hammer throw | George H. Hales || Cambridge UAC ||29.34 NR | Tom Stone Jr. || Newton-le-Willows CC ||26.11 |only 2 competitors || || |}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Athletics Outdoor Category:Sport in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Category:Athletics competitions in England AAC Category:April 1876