Friday, 20 July 2018

My definitive list of athletics events I've attended

Here's my list of athletics events I've attended from 1984 to 2002.
I'm also including some events at the end of this list which I considered attending but for various reasons unable to go.
No programmes were obtained for the events attended in 1984 and 1985; subsequently, for every event I attended, I bought a programme, except for some unknown reason, the Southern Counties AAA Championships, 16-17 June 1989.

1984
9 June: Hampshire Schools Championships, Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth

1985
5 May: Hampshire County AAA Young Athletes' League, Mountbatten Centre
18-19 May: Hampshire County Championships, Mountbatten Centre [only attended Sunday 19 May]

1986
8 March: Kodak Classic, England v USA, Cosford, Shropshire
10 May: GRE/British Athletics League, Division 1, Alexander Stadium, Birmingham
6-7 June: Southern Counties AAA Championships, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, London [only attended Saturday 7 June]
15 June: GRE/British Athletics League, Division 1, Copthall Stadium, Barnet, London
20-21 June: AAA Championships, Crystal Palace [only attended Saturday 21 June]

1987
20 June: Dairy Crest International, England v Czechoslovakia v Italy (men), England v Czechoslovakia v Bulgaria (women), Mountbatten Centre
21 August: Whitbread Wessex Grand Prix, final meeting, Mountbatten Centre

1988
22-23 January: Pearl Assurance National Indoor Championships, Cosford [only attended Saturday 23 January]
12 March: Kodak Classic, England v USA, Cosford
19 June: Pearl Assurance International, GB & NI v France v USSR, Mountbatten Centre
8 July: Peugeot Games, Crystal Palace
31 July: GRE Gold Cup Final/GRE Jubilee Cup semi-finals, Mountbatten Centre
5-7 August: Kodak AAA Championships & TSB WAAA Championships, incorporating the Olympic Trials, Alexander Stadium [only attended Saturday 6 August]
20 August: GRE/British Athletics League Gold Cup Final, New River Stadium, Wood Green, London
10 September: International Athletics: Hampshire v Army v Basse Normandie v British Fire Brigades, Mountbatten Centre

1989
28 January: Dairy Crest Games, GB & NI v Federal Republic of Germany, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow
13 May: GRE/British Athletics League, Division 1, Alexander Stadium
11 June: Pearl Assurance International, GB v Hungary v International Select, Mountbatten Centre
16-17 June: Southern Counties AAA Championships, Crystal Palace [only attended Saturday 17 June]
5 August: GRE/British Athletics League, Division 1, Queen Elizabeth Stadium, Enfield, London
11-13 August: Kodak AAA 100th Championships & WAAA Championships incorporating the Commonwealth Games Trials, Alexander Stadium [only attended Sunday 13 August]

1990
12 May: GRE/British Athletics League, Division 1, Copthall Stadium

1991
19 June: Dairy Crest International, GB v Germany, Crystal Palace
12 July: Parcelforce Games, Crystal Palace
26-27 July: Panasonic AAA/WAAA Championships, incorporating the World Championships Trials, Alexander Stadium [only attended Saturday 27 July]

1992
5 June: Pearl International, incorporating the European relays and a jumps and throws match, GB v Italy v Hungary, Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield
6-7 June: Pearl UK Championships, Don Valley Stadium [only attended Sunday 7 June]

1993
16-17 July: Panasonic AAA Championships/1993 World Championship Trials, Alexander Stadium [only attended Saturday 17 July]
30 July: Vauxhall Invitation, Gateshead International Stadium
10 September: IAAF Mobil Grand Prix Final, Crystal Palace

1994
29 January: Pearl International Games, GB v Russia, Kelvin Hall
11-12 June: KP National Championships (AAA National Championships, Commonwealth & European Championships Trials), Don Valley Stadium [attended both days]

1999
23-25 July: CGU World Trials and AAA's Championships, Alexander Stadium [only attended Saturday 24 July]

2000
11-13 August: Norwich Union Olympic Trials & AAA Championships, Alexander Stadium [only attended Sunday 13 August]
15 September-1 October: XXVII Olympic Games, Sydney [only attended Friday 22 September, Monday 25 September, Saturday 30 September]

2002
25 July-4 August: XVII Commonwealth Games, Manchester [only attended Thursday 25 July - opening ceremony, Monday 29 July, Tuesday 30 July]

Other events that I seriously considered but unable to attend:

1986
14 June: Loughborough Students v AAA U23s, Loughborough University
[I was keen on attending this for novelty, variety and the possibility of combining this with a steam train ride on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough, on Saturday. This was in addition to my confirmed plans to attend the GRE British Athletics League Division 1 fixture at Copthall, London, on Sunday 15 June. I was still living in London at the time, however after seeing former schoolmate Ashton Keiditsch who was studying photography in Salisbury that week, I had to pull the plug on going to Loughborough because as a student on limited means, had to conserve expenditure for a day trip to France on 20 June, the AAA Championships at Crystal Palace the following day and my 21st birthday party on 26 June. In the end I only went to Copthall on 15 June because it was a "home banker" at Shaftesbury Harriers]
1987
13 March: Kodak Classic, England v USA, Cosford
[I was keen to go that year, because I enjoyed going to the same event the year before. Our year group had a compulsory management studies seminar on Friday afternoon which finished around 4.30, meaning I would have been unable to get to London Euston in time to board a train with a decent connection at Wolverhampton for Cosford. The return journey would have arrived at 2.32am, London Euston, Saturday morning]
1988
12 June: GRE British Athletics League, Division 1, New River Stadium
[I got the event date wrong, arrived there on Saturday 11 June and found it closed. My mum arrived on 12 June to collect my belongings at the end of the academic year to bring me back home, I felt unable to change the arrangement, so never attended]

[21 July 2018 - added full names and locations for venues when first mentioned on the list, also other minor typo corrections]
[30 August 2018 - added 1984, 1985 events and 1986 event considered for attendance]
[1 September 2018 - corrected first 1985 event date due to slip-up]

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