{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1895 AAA Championships |Host city = London, England |Dates = 6 July 1895 |Stadium = Stamford Bridge (stadium) |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 14 |Previous = 1894 |Next = 1896 |Games = AAA Championships }}
The '''1895 AAA Championships''' was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 6 July 1895 at the Stamford Bridge (stadium) in London, England.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000986/18950708/051/0005 |title=The Amateur Championships |work=Athletic News |date=8 July 1895 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/18950708/004/0001 |title=The Amateur Athletic Association |work=Sporting Life |date=8 July 1895 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref>
The total number of events remained unchanged from the previous year, with all fourteen disciplines retained without alteration.
Fred Bacon set a new world record in the 1 mile event.
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== 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 ||10.0 =NR | Alfred Downer ||1½ yd | Max Wittenberg ||1 yd |- |440 yards | William Fitzherbert ||49.6 |{{flagicon|Gibraltar}}Edgar Bredin||2 ft |{{flagicon|Cape Colony}}Philip Blignaut||4-6 yd |- |880 yards |{{flagicon|Gibraltar}} Edgar Bredin ||1:55.8 |Frederick Horan ||3 yd |Arthur Butler ||1:57.4 |- |1 mile | Fred Bacon ||4:17.0 WR | William Lutyens ||4:21.0 | Charles Montague ||10-12 yd |- |4 miles | Henry Munro ||19:49.4 | Charles Pearce ||20:02.0 | Sidney Thomas ||20:06.8 |- |10 miles | Fred Bacon ||52:43.8 | Harry Watkins ||52:45.4 | Charles Willers ||55:28.4 |- |steeplechase | Edwin Wilkins|| 11:24.0 | C. S. Sydenham|| 20 yd | C. W. Davies|| |- |120yd hurdles | Godfrey Shaw ||15.8 NR | William Oakley ||2½ yd | Percy Lowe ||1½ yd |- |4 miles walk | William Sturgess ||30:17.4 | M. K. Forrester ||200 yd | W. Cryer|| |- |high jump | {{flagicon|Leinster}} James Ryan ||1.816 | Reginald Williams|| 1.791 | Robert Perry ||1.765 |- |pole jump | Robert Dickinson ||3.05 | P. Hunter (South Africa) ||2.74 | only 2 competitors|| |- |long jump | William Oakley ||6.56 | {{flagicon|NZL}} Wally Mendelson|| 6.48 | Claude Leggatt ||6.31 |- |shot put |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan ||13.50 |Dudley Gradwell (South Africa)|| 13.13 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} William Barry || 13.00 |- |hammer throw | {{flagicon|Leinster}} William Barry || 40.53 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Tom Kiely ||39.69 | {{flagicon|SCO}} James MacDonald||30.56 |}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Category:AAA Championships Athletics Outdoor Category:International sports competitions in London Category:1895 in the sport of athletics Category:Sport in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Category:July 1895 in the United Kingdom