The Official
Records Website
This website has been compiled through many years of painstaking research to fill a yarning gap in the annals of the Liverpool Pembroke & Sefton Harriers & Athletic Club, namely the provision of a comprehensive set of Ladies and Gentlemans record performances for all age groups. The club is the result of a merger between Sefton Harriers & A.C. (founded 1889) and Liverpool Pembroke A.C. (founded 1890). With over two centuries of archives to research I doubt this will ever be complete; but it keeps me off street corners.
The majority of the entries herein have been compiled from the British Athletics Annual (currently published by Umbra Athletics Ltd). I have also leafed through over 2000 copies of Athletics Weekly & Athletics Today. Regulars to these publications will be aware that they do contain the occasional typographical error and a pathological inability to distinguish between Liverpool Pembroke and the other local club, Liverpool Harriers. Consequently there is a possibility that some of the entries listed may actually be athletes who belong to other clubs from the area. Also it is often found that, in the annual listings, first names are abbreviated just to a letter, venues are omitted or the exact date is reduced to just a year. I would be eternally grateful if anyone who notices errors or can correct dates, venues, relay squad members, first names etc., could e-mail me at bearbrown@btinternet.com and I will make the necessary alterations at the earliest opportunity.
I would also like to hear from anyone who believes they know of better performances but, please, provide some evidence to back up any claims. I regret to have to insist that school sports days, village fetes and the local tug-of-war cannot be deemed to be suitable competitions for record purposes.
Sincerest thanks go to Mr. Stan Greenberg who helped to fill in some of the more difficult gaps.
The eagle-eyed viewer may have noted that this began life is an unofficial site. The great and the good at LPS have now adopted this as their official archive, something of which I am immensely proud. The LPS club website can be found at : http://www.lps-athletics.co.uk/.
Stars Of Track & Field.
Senior Ladies--Under
20 Ladies--Under 17 Ladies--Under
15 Ladies--Under 13 Ladies
Senior Men----Under
20 Men----Under 17 Men----Under
15 Men----Under 13 Men
5-Deep Listings ---------------Veterans
(Ladies & Men)
Under
construction : Rogues Gallery----Links
On The Road Again.
I've now extended this to include some of the more
popular distances run. There may yet be more to come !
3 Miles-----4
Miles-----5 Miles-----6 Miles
10 Miles----15
Miles----20 Miles----Half-Marathon-----Marathon
"I'm
a roadrunner, baby...."--Junior Walker
& The Allstars
"Roadrunner,
roadrunner, I go a thousand miles an hour...."--Jonathon Richman
Controversial ?
Over the years former Pembrokians have been no strangers to controversy. The link below takes the viewer to a page detailing four performances by some of our best known athletes which caused a few animated exchanges between the custodians of this site and the National Union of Track Statistians.
Controversial ? ----
The Battle of Watford : 13th
September 1997.
"Old
Pembrokians still a-bed will think themselves accurs'd they were not here and hold
their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks who fought with us that day".
Shakespeare-ish.
The Story. ----
L.P.S. on T V !
It seems you just can't keep Pembroke & Sefton off the gogglebox these days so I've shamelessly converted all the clips I can find to a more Windows-friendly format and loaded them onto the website. If anyone would like a DVD with much better quality copies of all the clips shown below please drop me an e-mail and make a small donation to club funds to cover postage & packaging.
2007
European Indoors - Birmingham.
Phil Taylor wins LPS's first ever senior international medal with a gold for GB in the 4 x 400m relay at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham on 4th March 2007.
Phil's Gold Medal.----Phil & the Squad.
2007
English Schools - Birmingham.
Harry Doran finishes third in the 400m (after setting the fastest time in the heats.)
2007
Europa Cup - Munich.
Michael Rimmer sends GB off to a flying start with a second place in the 800m.
2007
AAA/UK Championships - Manchester.
Michael Rimmer defends his AAA's title with considerable style, front running from gun to tape.
2007 IAAF
Grand Prix - Stockholm.
A new club record and PB for Michael Rimmer as he wins in Sweden ahead of strong European and African opposition.
Alex
Kruger at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.
Several clips rescued from a fading video tape of some of Alex's events at the Seoul decathlon and a short interview. Oh for the days when Britain had three Olympic decathletes.
Interview.---100m.---Long Jump.---High Jump.---400m.---110m H.
A Little Bit Of Fun !
The few links that follow are not intended to form
any kind of definitive reference; they are just informal lists of all round
sprinting, throwing and jumping ability based on the best three performances in
each category I've been able to unearth over the years. If there are better
performances which are missing, you know
what to do - tell me via bearbrown@btinternet.com.
Scores were taken from the IAAF multievents scoring tables 2001 where possible;
other events were scored from tables found on the IAAF website. It would be fair to say that comparisons of events across
the two sets of tables are less than perfect, but this isn't supposed to be
scientific.
Sprinters-----Throwers-----Jumpers-----
"It's
not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."--Mark Twain
Dave Brown -
former captain and mediocre javelin thrower.
Last updated 21 July 2008.