{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1894 AAA Championships |Host city = Huddersfield, England |Dates = 7 July 1894 |Stadium = Fartown Ground |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 14 |Previous = 1893 |Next = 1895 |Games = AAA Championships }}
The '''1894 AAA Championships''' was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 7 July 1894 at the Fartown Ground in Huddersfield, England, in front of 6,200 spectators.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002876/18940709/045/0003 |title=The English Amateur Athletic Championships |work=Huddersfield Daily Chronicle |date=9 July 1894 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/18940709/002/0001 |title=The Amateur Athletic Association Championship meeting |work=Sporting Life |date=9 July 1894 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref>
The 14 events were the same number as in the previous year, although the 7 miles walk was reduced to a new distance of 4 miles.
{{clear}} thumb|right|150px|Fred Bacon == 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=6 July 2024}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" |- !width=100|Event !colspan="2" width="280" style="background:gold;|Gold !colspan="2" width="280" style="background:silver;|Silver !colspan="2" width="280" style="background:#CD7F32;|Bronze |- |100 yards | Charles Bradley ||10.2 | Max Wittenberg ||3½ yd | Charles Thomas ||1½ yd |- |440 yards | {{flagicon|Gibraltar}} Edgar Bredin ||50.0 |Arthur Ovenden ||51.6 |H.S. Johnson ||2 yd |- |880 yards | {{flagicon|Gibraltar}} Edgar Bredin ||1:56.8 |Frederick Horan ||1:58.4 |Anthony Millett ||2:01.8 |- |1 mile | Fred Bacon ||4:25.8 | William Fowler ||4:29.6 | William Lutyens ||8 yd |- |4 miles | Fred Bacon ||19:48.8 | George Crossland ||19:49.2 | Sidney Thomas ||20:09.4 |- |10 miles | Sidney Thomas ||51:37.0 | Harry Watkins|| 51:40.0 | H.J.W. Roberts ||54:40.8 |- |steeplechase | Alfred George|| 11:21.0 | George Martin|| 11:51.4 | only 2 competitors|| |- |120yd hurdles | Godfrey Shaw ||16.6 | Percy Lowe ||3 yd | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Tom Donovan ||4 yd |- |4 miles walk | Harry Curtis ||30:05.8 | David Fenton ||30:26.2 | William Sturgess ||30:38.8 |- |high jump | Reginald Williams ||1.759 | Eric Swanwick ||1.734 | only 2 competitors|| |- |pole jump | Robert Dickinson|| 3.32 | E. Wilson ||2.59 | only 2 competitors|| |- |long jump | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Tom Donovan|| 6.30 | Arthur Badger ||6.20 | B.C. Green ||6.01 |- |shot put | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan|| 12.90 |{{flagicon|SCO}} James D. McIntosh|| 12.33 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} William Barry|| 12.11 |- |hammer throw | {{flagicon|Leinster}} William Barry ||38.62 |{{flagicon|SCO}} R. Nelson Robbie ||34.68 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Carey ||32.22 |}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Category:AAA Championships Athletics Outdoor Category:Sports competitions in Yorkshire Category:1894 in the sport of athletics Category:19th century in Yorkshire Category:Sport in Huddersfield Category:July 1894 in the United Kingdom