1985 AAA Championships

1985 AAA Championships
Dates	13–14 July 1985
Host city	London, England
Venue	Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
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The 1985 AAA Championships sponsored by (Kodak) was the 1985 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 13 to 14 July 1985 at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London, England. ^{[1] [2]}

Summary

The Championships covered two days of competition.

The 1985 London Marathon determined the marathon AAA champion and the decathlon was held in Birmingham on 20–21 July 1985.

Willie Banks won the triple jump

Results

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m+	Ernest Obeng	10.44	Darwin Cook	10.45	Chidi Imoh	10.46
200m	Ade Mafe	20.99	Buster Watson	21.02	Mike McFarlane	21.02
400m	Darren Clark	45.45	Derek Redmond	45.52	Mark Rowe	45.78
800m	José Luiz Barbosa	1:45.48	Eugene Sanders	1:45.58	Edwin Koech	1:46.58
1,500m	Marcus O'Sullivan	3:40.27	Ray Flynn	3:40.59	Alistair Currie	3:41.09
5,000m	David Lewis	13:42.82	Paul Davies-Hale	13:42.99	John Treacy	13:44.68
10,000m	Kevin Ryan	28:50.70	Karl Harrison	28:52.46	Carl Thackery	28:54.90
marathon	Steve Jones	2:08:16	Charlie Spedding	2:08:33	Allister Hutton	2:09:16
3000m steeplechase	Brian Diemer	8:31.51	Kevin Capper	8:38.11	Brendan Quinn	8:42.05
110m hurdles	Henry Andrade	13.83	Nigel Walker	13.98	Dannie Jackson	14.02
400m hurdles	Ahmed Hamada	49.82	Max Robertson	50.16	Henry Amike	50.25
3,000m walk	Ian McCombie	11:41.73 NR	Phil Vesty	11:54.57	Martin Rush	12:04.28
10,000m walk	Murray Day	43:35.3	Roger Mills	43:48.9	Adrian James	44:58.1
high jump	Milt Ottey	2.28	Brian Stanton	2.28	Jorge Alfaro	2.28
pole vault	Kory Tarpenning	5.40	Mike Tully Tim Bright	5.30	n/a
long jump	Dannie Jackson	7.89	Derrick Brown	7.80	John Herbert	7.74
triple jump	Willie Banks	17.22	Robert Cannon	16.87	John Herbert	16.85
shot put	Billy Cole	17.88	Stuart Gyngell	17.48	Hubert Maingot	17.03
discus throw	Juan Martínez Brito	65.72	Luis Delís	65.34	Paul Mardle	58.28
hammer throw	David Smith	77.30	Declan Hegarty	76.02	Martin Girvan	73.42
javelin throw	David Ottley	88.32	Mick Hill	79.56	Masami Yoshida	79.08
decathlon	Greg Richards	7456	Tom Leeson	7385	Mark Luscombe	6999

+Mike McFarlane finished third but was disqualified for running out of his lane and Lincoln Asquith finished fifth and was the leading British athlete. ^[4]

See also

• 1985 WAAA Championships

References

1. "Sprint stars out of line" . Sunday Sun (Newcastle). 14 July 1985. Retrieved 18 July 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
2. "Second-best stars!" . Birmingham Mail. 15 July 1985. Retrieved 18 July 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
4. "Sprint stars out of line" . Sunday Sun (Newcastle). 14 July 1985. Retrieved 19 June 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.