{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1897 AAA Championships |Host city = Manchester, England |Dates = 3 July 1897 |Stadium = Fallowfield Stadium |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 14 |Previous = 1896 |Next = 1898 |Games = 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001781/18970705/008/0008 |title=Amateur Athletic Championships |work=Nottingham Guardian |date=5 July 1897 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18970705/015/0003 |title=Amateur Athletic Championships |work=London Evening Standard |date=5 July 1897 |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|Alfred Tysoe won the mile and 10 miles events == 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 | J. H. Palmer ||10.8 | Henry Woodyatt ||1 ft | Jimmy Tremeer ||½ yd |- |440 yards | Samuel Elliott|| 53.2 |E. Harrison Kenyon ||1 ft |{{flagicon|SCO}} J. Donaldson ||1½ yd |- |880 yards | Albert Relf ||2:00.4 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Cyril Dickinson ||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 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} I. A. E. Mulligan|| 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 | {{flagicon|SCO}} John MacFarlane<br>Charles Adams|| 1.702<br>1.702 |- |pole jump | James Poole ||3.01 | Edwin Newby ||2.93 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Carey|| 2.89 |- |long jump | Claude Leggatt ||6.50 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} R. D. Barbour ||6.31 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Tom Donovan ||5.97 |- |shot put | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan ||13.82 |{{flagicon|USA}} Richard Sheldon|| 13.54 |only 2 competitors|| |- |hammer throw | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Tom Kiely ||43.42 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan ||38.62 | {{flagicon|USA}} Richard Sheldon ||31.14 |}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Category:AAA Championships Athletics Outdoor Category:Sports competitions in Manchester Category:1897 in the sport of athletics Category:19th century in Manchester Category:1890s in Lancashire Category:July 1897 in the United Kingdom