{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1912 AAA Championships |Host city = London, England |Dates = 22 June 1912 |Stadium = Stamford Bridge (stadium) |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 16 |Previous = 1911 |Next = 1913 |Games = AAA Championships }}
The '''1912 AAA Championships''' was the 1912 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held on Saturday 22 June 1912 at the Stamford Bridge (stadium) in London, England. The attendance was between 12,000 and 15,000 spectators.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19120624/214/0014 |title=Athletic Championship |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=24 June 1912 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003329/19120624/106/0004 |title=Amateur Athletic Championship |work=Leicester Evening Mail |date=24 June 1912 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=11 July 2024}}</ref>
The Championships consisted of 16 events.
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== Results == thumb|right|150px|Willie Applegarth thumb|right|150px|Benjamin Howard Baker <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|SAF|1912}} George Patching ||9.8 | Willie Applegarth ||1½ yd | {{flagicon|AUS}} William Stewart ||½ yd |- |220 yards | Willie Applegarth ||22.0 |{{flagicon|WAL}} David Jacobs ||1¼ yd |{{flagicon|SAF|1912}} George Patching ||½ yd |- |440 yards | Cyril Seedhouse ||49.8 |{{flagicon|SAF|1912}} George Patching ||4 yd |Ernest Henley ||6-7 yd |- |880 yards |{{flagicon|GER|empire}} Hanns Braun ||1:58.2 |{{flagicon|SCO}} James Soutter ||2-4 yd |Percy Mann ||2 ft |- |1 mile | Eddie Owen ||4:21.4 | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Richard Hales || 3-5 yd | Joe Cottrill ||3-5 yd |- |4 miles | George Hutson ||20:10.8 | William Scott ||20:22.8 | Amos Martin ||20:53.2 |- |10 miles | William Scott ||52:35.0 | Thomas Humphreys ||53:55.4 | W.J. Tucker ||54:50.0 |- |steeplechase | Sydney Frost ||11:27.2 | Jack Cruise ||80-100 yd | Charles Ruffell ||25-39 yd |- |120yd hurdles | Gerard Anderson ||15.6 | George Gray ||2 yd | Kenneth Powell ||inches |- |2 miles walk | Bobby Bridge ||13:55.4 | Ernest Webb ||15-20 yd | Thomas Dumbill ||30-40 yd |- |7 miles walk | Bobby Bridge ||52:45.6 | William Yates||52:59.8 | Harold Ross ||54:20.8 |- |high jump | Benjamin Howard Baker || 1.829 | Clive Taylor ||1.727 | H. Ward ||1.715 |- |pole jump | Owen Conquest|| 2.91 | not awarded|| | only 1 competitor|| |- |long jump | {{flagicon|Leinster}} Percy Kirwan ||7.07 | Philip Kingsford ||6.86 | Henry Ashington ||6.78 |- |shot put |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Horgan ||13.66 |{{flagicon|USA}} Wesley Coe ||3.35 |{{flagicon|SCO}} Tom Nicolson ||12.53 |- |hammer throw | {{flagicon|SCO}} Tom Nicolson ||49.43 |{{flagicon|Leinster}} Denis Carey ||47.87 | {{flagicon|USA}} Benjamin Sherman ||41.36 |}
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Category:AAA Championships Athletics Outdoor Category:International sports competitions in London Category:Sport in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Category:June 1912 sports events in the United Kingdom Category:1912 in the sport of athletics