{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name = 1929 AAA Championships |Host city = London, England |Dates = 5–6 July 1929 |Stadium = Stamford Bridge |Level = Senior |Type = Outdoor |Events = 24 |Previous = 1928 |Next = 1930 |Games = AAA Championships }}
The '''1929 AAA Championships''' was the 1929 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 5 to 6 July 1929 at Stamford Bridge in London, England.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005049/19290706/319/0010 |title=Payne sets up a record marathon time |work=London Daily Chronicle |date=6 July 1929 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001034/19290707/331/0023 |title=Foreigners held at Bay |work=Reynolds's Newspaper |date=7 July 1929 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003213/19290708/303/0014 |title=AAA Championships |work=Daily News (London) |date=8 July 1929 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 July 2024}}</ref>
The Championships consisted of 24 events and covered two days of competition. The marathon was held from Windsor to Stamford Bridge.
{{clear}} == 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=13 July 2024}}</ref> thumb|right|150px|Harry Payne retained his marathon title thumb|right|150px|David Cecil (Lord Burghley), winner of the sprint hurdles {| 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 | Jack London ||10.0 | William Simmons ||1½ yd |{{flagicon|ITA|1861}} Edgardo Toetti ||1 ft |- |220 yards | John Hanlon ||21.9 |Stanley Engelhart ||1½ yd |John Rinkel ||1 ft |- |440 yards | John Hanlon ||49.4 |{{flagicon|HUN}} László Barsi ||6 yd |Laurence Neame ||4 yd |- |880 yards | Cyril Ellis ||1:54.6 |{{flagicon|WAL|1807}} Reg Thomas||1:55.2 |Michael Gutteridge ||6 yd |- |1 mile | Cyril Ellis ||4:22.0 |Stanley Ashby ||1 yd | Stan Tomlin ||4:28.0 |- |4 miles | Walter Beavers ||19:49.4 | {{flagicon|POL}} Stanislaw Pietkiewicz ||19:54.6 | {{flagicon|SCO}} James Wood ||20:00.6 |- |10 miles | Ernest Harper ||52:15.8 | Jack Holden ||52:35.0 | {{flagicon|SCO}} John Suttie Smith ||53:45.2 |- |marathon | Harry Payne ||2:30:57.6 ER | {{flagicon|NIR}} Sam Ferris ||2:39:12.0 | Ernest Leatherland ||2:49:22.0 |- |steeplechase | Edward Oliver ||10:53.2 | Herbert Townsend ||11:01.0 | Vernon Morgan ||11:16.0 |- |120y hurdles | Lord Burghley ||15.4 | Francis Foley ||2 yd | Donald Finlay ||6 yd |- |440y hurdles | {{flagicon|ITA|1861}} Luigi Facelli ||53.4 | Lord Burghley ||55.0 | Douglas Neame ||20 yd |- |2 miles walk | Alf Pope ||13:57.6 | Bert Cooper ||14:00.2 | Cecil Hyde ||14:10.0 |- |7 miles walk | Cecil Hyde ||53:38.6 | Alf Pope ||55:17.6 | John Reddish ||55:47.4 |- |high jump | {{flagicon|HUN}} Kornél Késmárki ||1.905 | {{flagicon|NOR}} Einar Tommelstad ||1.854 | {{flagicon|IRL}} Con O'Connor <br>Alec James ||1.803<br>1.803 |- |pole jump | Howard Ford ||3.58 | Fred Housden<br>Jack Longland<br>{{flagicon|NED}} Age van der Zee ||3.50<br>3.50<br>3.50 | n/a |- |long jump | James Cohen ||6.88 | {{flagicon|NED}} Anton van Welsenses || 6.88 | {{flagicon|NED}} Willem Peters ||6.75 |- |triple jump | {{flagicon|NED}} Willem Peters ||14.22 | Harold Langley ||13.40 | Arthur Gray ||13.16 |- |shot put | {{flagicon|HUN}} József Daranyi ||14.20 |Robert Howland ||12.85 |{{flagicon|BEL}} Auguste Vos ||12.62 |- |discus throw | {{flagicon|NOR}} Harald Stenerud ||43.54 |{{flagicon|HUN}} József Daranyi ||41.16 |{{flagicon|IRL}} Tim Healy ||40.30 |- |hammer throw | {{flagicon|IRL}} Bill Britton ||47.60 |{{flagicon|IRL}} John McSweeney || 45.62 | {{flagicon|NOR}} Harald Stenerud ||43.98 |- |javelin throw | {{flagicon|HUN}} Bela Szepes ||66.70 |{{flagicon|BEL}} Jules Herremans ||56.52 |{{flagicon|SCO}} James Dalrymple ||53.46 |- |440 yards relay | Polytechnic Harriers|| | Surrey AC|| | South London Harriers|| |- |Tug of war (100 st) | London Fire Brigade || | B Division MPAC Gerald Road|| |Luton Borough Police AC<br>Royal Naval Barracks Portsmouth|| |- |Tug of war (catch weight) | London Fire Brigade || | Luton Borough Police AC|| |B Division MPAC Gerald Road<br>Monmouthshire Police|| |}
== See also == *1929 WAAA Championships
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
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