{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1896 AAA Championships |Host city = Northampton, England |Dates = 4 July 1896 |Stadium = County Cricket Ground, Northampton |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 14 |Previous = 1895 |Next = 1897 |Games = AAA Championships }}
The '''1896 AAA Championships''' was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 4 July 1896 at the County Cricket Ground, Northampton in Northampton, England, in front of 7,000 spectators.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000986/18950708/051/0005 |title=Athletics |work=London Evening Standard |date=6 July 1896 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/18960706/150/0008 |title=The Amateur Athletic Association |work=Sporting Life |date=6 July 1896 |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 and all 14 event disciplines remained the same.
{{clear}} thumb|right|200px|John Flanagan == 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 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Norman Morgan ||10.4 | Max Wittenberg ||1½ yd | Charles Thomas|| |- |440 yards |{{flagicon|Leinster}} James Meredith || 52.0 |William Fitzherbert|| 3 yd |H.D. Casey||5 yd |- |880 yards | William King ||2:01.4 |Henry Cullum ||1 ft |Alec Nelson ||8 yd |- |1 mile | Benson Lawford ||4:31.4 | Robert Wellin|| 10 yd | Montague Davie ||8 yd |- |4 miles | Henry Harrison ||20:27.4 | Charles Pearce||60 yd | James Collins|| 50 yd |- |10 miles | George Crossland|| 52:05.0 | Harry Watkins|| 52:10.0 | Percy Biss ||56:10.4 |- |steeplechase | Sidney Robinson ||11:25.0 | A.G. Dabbs ||50 yd | George Lee ||30 yd |- |120yd hurdles | Godfrey Shaw ||15.6 | J. King ||6 yd | Frederic Allfrey|| 4 yd |- |4 miles walk | William Sturgess ||28:57.6 | Harry Curtis|| 29:27.4 | M.K. Forrester ||30:02.4 |- |high jump | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Murty O'Brien || 1.803 | Reginald Williams|| 1.651 | only 2 competitors|| |- |pole jump | R.E. Forshaw|| 3.05 | Edwin Newby ||2.97 | only 2 competitors|| |- |long jump | Claude Leggatt ||7.03 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} R.D. Barbour|| 6.92 | J. Richardson ||6.37 |- |shot put |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan|| 13.24 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} John Flanagan|| 12.32 |only 2 competitors|| |- |hammer throw |{{flagicon|Leinster}} John Flanagan|| 13.24 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan|| 12.32 | only 2 competitors|| |}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Category:AAA Championships Athletics Outdoor Category:Sport in Northampton Category:1896 in the sport of athletics Category:19th century in Northamptonshire Category:July 1896 in the United Kingdom