{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1908 AAA Championships |Host city = London, England |Dates = 4 July 1908 |Stadium = White City Stadium |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 16 |Previous = 1907 |Next = 1909 |Games = AAA Championships }}
The '''1908 AAA Championships''' was the 1908 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held on Saturday 4 July 1908 at the White City Stadium in London, England. The attendance was 22,000 and included Prince Albert of Wales (later George VI).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19080706/047/0008 |title=Prince Albert watches Stadium Sports |work=Daily Mirror |date=6 July 1908 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000668/19080706/152/0008 |title=AAA Championships |work=Birmingham Daily Gazette |date=6 July 1908 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref>
The Championships consisted of 16 events.
{{clear}} thumb|right|150px|Canadian Robert Kerr completed a sprint double thumb|right|150px|Harold Wilson was the mile champion
== 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 | {{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Robert Kerr || 10.0 | {{flagicon|SAF|1876}} Reginald Walker || 1 yd |John Morton||inches |- |220 yards | {{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Robert Kerr ||22.4 |Lionel Reed ||5 yd |John George ||1 yd |- |440 yards | {{flagicon|SCO}} Wyndham Halswelle ||49.4 |Edwin Montague<br>Edward Ryle ||5 yd<br>5 yd |not awarded|| |- |880 yards | Theodore Just ||1:58.2 | Ivo Fairbairn-Crawford ||8-10 yd |J. W. Monument ||5 yd |- |1 mile | Harold Wilson ||4:20.2 | Joe Deakin|| 10 yd | Francis Knott||2-4 yd |- |4 miles | Emil Voigt|| 19:47.4 | Arthur Robertson|| 19:52.8 | A. Edward Wood ||19:53.6 |- |10 miles |{{flagicon|SCO}} Alexander Duncan||53:40.6 | Joe Deakin||53:41.4 | {{flagicon|SCO}} Thomas Jack ||53:42.0 |- |steeplechase | Reginald Noakes ||10:35.0 | Arthur Russell ||5-10 yd | Billy Grantham ||5-30 yd |- |120yd hurdles | {{flagicon|SAF|1876}} John Duncker ||16.2 | Oswald Groenings|| ½ yd | {{flagicon|NZL}} Henry Murray ||1 ft-2 yd |- |2 miles walk | George Larner ||13:58.4 | Ernest Webb ||14:05.6 | Ralph Harrison ||14:14.6 |- |7 miles walk | Ernest Webb ||53:02.6 | Fred Carter ||53:43.0 | William Palmer ||54:25.0 |- |high jump | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Con Leahy ||1.803 | {{flagicon|SWE}} Axel Hedenlund ||1.778 | Oswald Groenings<br>Walter Henderson|| 1.753 |- |pole jump |{{flagicon|Canada|1868}} Ed Archibald ||3.66 |{{flagicon|SWE}} Bruno Söderström ||3.60 |{{flagicon|BEL}} Alexandre de Petrofsky <br>{{flagicon|SWE}} Carl Silfverstrand||3.05<br>3.05 |- |long jump | {{flagicon|SCO}} Wilfred Bleaden ||6.79 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Murray ||6.61 | John Pattison ||6.45 |- |shot put | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan ||13.59 |{{flagicon|SCO}} Tom Kirkwood ||13.40 |{{flagicon|SWE}} Hugo Wieslander || 12.15 |- |hammer throw | {{flagicon|USA}} Simon Gillis ||50.12 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan ||40.00 | {{flagicon|SCO}} Robert Lindsay-Watson ||33.79 |}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Category:AAA Championships Athletics Outdoor Category:International sports competitions in London Category:1908 in the sport of athletics Category:Sport in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Category:July 1908 sports events in the United Kingdom