{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1905 AAA Championships |Host city = London, England |Dates = 1 July 1905 |Stadium = Stamford Bridge (stadium) |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 16 |Previous = 1904 |Next = 1906 |Games = AAA Championships }}
The '''1905 AAA Championships''' was the 1905 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held on Saturday 1 July 1905 at the Stamford Bridge (stadium) in London, England, in front of 7–8,000 spectators.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19050703/347/0012 |title=Amateur Athletic Championships |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=3 July 1905 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/19050703/021/0002 |title=The Amateur Championships |work=Sporting Life |date=3 July 1905 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref>
The Championships consisted of 16 events.
{{clear}} thumb|right|200px|Frenchman Gonder won the pole jump event == 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=11 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 | John Morton ||10.2 | {{flagicon|SCO}} James Stark ||2½ yd | Harold Watson|| ½ yd |- |220 yards | {{flagicon|USA}} Henry Hyman || 22.4 |Claude Jupp ||6 yd |{{flagicon|SCO}} James Stark ||2 yd |- |440 yards |{{flagicon|SCO}} Wyndham Halswelle ||50.8 |{{flagicon|FRA}} Georges Malfait ||1½-5 yd |Edwin Montague ||3 yd |- |880 yards |{{flagicon|SCO}} Bernard Blunden ||2:02.0 |Reginald Crabbe|| 2 yd |David Cowan|| 5 yd |- |1 mile | George Butterfield ||4:25.2 |{{flagicon|SCO}} John McGough ||2-6 yd | E. Gardner ||1 yd |- |4 miles | Josh Smith ||21:08.8 | {{flagicon|SCO}} Douglas McNicol ||21:34.6 | H. Hobbs ||21:43.0 |- |10 miles | Albert Aldridge ||51:49.0 | E. Gardner ||53:12.2 | Joe Deakin|| 53:44.2 |- |steeplechase | Arthur Russell ||11:11.0 | Albert Aldridge ||10 yd | only 2 finished|| |- |120yd hurdles | {{flagicon|SCO}} Robert Stronach ||16.8 | {{flagicon|WAL|1807}} Wallis Walters ||3 yd |{{flagicon|USA}} Edward Amsler || |- |2 miles walk | George Larner ||13:50.0 | Robert Wilkinson ||140 yd | W. H. Martindale ||100 yd |- |7 miles walk | George Larner ||52:34.0 | Frederick Thompson ||54:29.0 | W. H. Martindale ||54:47.0 |- |high jump | {{flagicon|Leinster}}Con Leahy || 1.784 | Edward Leader ||1.733 | only 2 competed|| |- |pole jump | {{flagicon|FRA}} Fernand Gonder ||3.10 | not awarded|| | only 1 competitor|| |- |long jump | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Peter O'Connor || 7.25 | Lionel Cornish ||7.10 | {{flagicon|SWE}} Hjalmar Mellander||6.60 |- |shot put |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan ||13.55 | {{flagicon|SCO}} Tom Nicolson ||12.43 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Michael Collins ||11.35 |- |hammer throw | {{flagicon|SCO}} Tom Nicolson ||47.51 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan || 40.24 | Alf Flaxman ||35.46 |}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Category:AAA Championships Athletics Outdoor Category:International sports competitions in London Category:1905 in the sport of athletics Category:Sport in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Category:July 1905 sports events in the United Kingdom