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Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets Athletics Club (VPH & TH AC) is an athletics club in London in Tower Hamlets, East London, United Kingdom.
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Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets Athletics Club (VPH & TH AC) is an athletics club in London in Tower Hamlets, East London, United Kingdom.
For competitions, [1] in Track and Field, VPH competes in Division 2 of the Southern Athletics League. In Cross Country, VPH competes in the London Met League. The track used by Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets is the Mile End Stadium in Mile End while the club's headquarters is in Victoria Park.
Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets Athletics Club was founded in 2001, as a merger of Victoria Park Harriers which was founded in 1926, and Tower Hamlets Athletics Clubs, which was founded in 1976. [2] with Victoria Park Harriers mainly being a cross country club and Tower Hamlets Athletics Club mainly being a track and field club. The track used by Victoria Park Harriers and Tower Hamlets, Mile End stadium, was the closest athletics club track to the Olympic Stadium during 2012, [3] and it was used by the US Olympic Athletics team for training during the Olympics. [4]
The club's kit is a white vest or crop top with a green and blue diagonal line.
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