{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1898 AAA Championships |Host city = London, England |Dates = 2 July 1898 |Stadium = Stamford Bridge (stadium) |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 14 |Previous = 1897 |Next = 1899 |Games = AAA Championships }}
The '''1898 AAA Championships''' was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 2 July 1898 at the Stamford Bridge (stadium) in London, England, in front of 7,000 spectators.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/18980704/154/0008 |title=The Amateur Athletic Championships |work=Sporting Life |date=4 July 1898 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18980704/066/0008 |title=Amateur Athletic Association Championships |work=London Evening Standard |date=4 July 1898 |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|Bennett successfully defended his 4 miles title == 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 | Frederick Cooper ||10.0 =NR |Norman Morgan (N Ireland) ||inches | Reginald Wadsley ||inches |- |440 yards | William Fitzherbert ||50.0 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} James Meredith || ½ yd |Charles Davison ||½ yd |- |880 yards | Albert Relf|| 1:56.2 |William Lutyens ||4 yd |Alan Hunter|| 10 yd |- |1 mile |{{flagicon|SCO}} Hugh Welsh ||4:17.2 | William Lutyens ||16-20 yd | D. G. Harris ||4:32.0 |- |4 miles | Charles Bennett ||20:14.4 | {{flagicon|SCO}} Henry Munro ||25 yd | Jason Tennant ||100 yd |- |10 miles | Sidney Robinson ||53:12.0 | Charles Bennett ||53:18.0 | Edward Barlow|| 53:22.0 |- |steeplechase |{{flagicon|CAN|1868}} George Orton||11:48.4 | Charles Lee ||80 yd | A.E. Williamson ||20 yd |- |120yd hurdles | Howard Parkes ||16.4 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Tom Kiely ||3 yd |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Patrick Harding || |- |4 miles walk | William Sturgess ||29:10.0 | Jack Butler ||30:15.8 | G. Topliss ||30:41.0 |- |high jump |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Patrick Leahy ||1.819 | Robert Perry & Henry Adair|| 1.753 | not awarded|| |- |pole jump | James Poole ||3.12 | E. C. Pritchard ||3.07 | A. Fraser|| 2.66 |- |long jump |{{flagicon|Leinster}} William Newburn ||7.19 NR | Gilbert Vassall ||6.60 | Edmund Faunce de Laune ||6.45 |- |shot put |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan ||13.71 |Nigel Harrison|| 11.44 |R. E. Bascombe|| 9.88 |- |hammer throw |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Tom Kiely ||42.70 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan ||38.28 | Walter Lawrence ||33.50 |}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Category:AAA Championships Athletics Outdoor Category:International sports competitions in London Category:1898 in the sport of athletics Category:Sport in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Category:July 1898 in Europe