Ashhurst Athletic and Harrier Club

Ashhurst Athletic and Harrier Club A Club which caters for children from 3-14 years. We offer sprints, middle distance running, long j We have a proud athletic history for a very small town.

The Club was founded in 1971 and a track marked out at the Ashhurst Race course, now the Domain where meetings were held on Saturday mornings. In 1973 the meetings shifted to the school grounds where a 300m track was marked out, an athletics shed built and meetings held on Tuesday evenings. In 1975 the meetings were switched to Lincoln Park (Lincoln Street Reserve) where there was just room for a 400m track to be marked out; the long jump pit was constructed (sand trucked from Ohakea) and the throwing circles built. Getting the Club going involved a lot of fundraising (raffles and auctions) and voluntary labour. The committee even had several years when they had to mow the grass at Lincoln Park before the Council took over the mowing! In the 70's and 80's the Club had some senior members who, apart from summer athletics, did harrier running in the winter for a few years and organised an Ashhurst Road race. It also punched above its weight - Ashhurst had 7 or 8 runners in the Rotorua Marathon in 1982, which had 3500 runners, and our Club managed to come third in the teams event, beating many large clubs from all major cities in New Zealand. At the prizegiving afterwards everyone was saying 'where is Ashhurst?' - they had never heard of it. A similar thing happened at the Children's Colgate Games at Inglewood (2013) where we also did very well. But all of these achievements are overshadowed by the effort of one of our former members, Thelma Pitt-Turner, who in 1985 ran the Hastings marathon in 7hrs 58mins. Now you may think that's not very good but Thelma was 82 years old and had her picture, wearing the Ashhurst Club singlet, in the Guinness Book of Records. We pride ourselves on developing skills in athletes aged 3-12.

01/09/2026

Get ready team!

Congratulations to Ari u20 10k 🥇, Emma u16 5k 🥈 and Mya (PB) u14 3k 🥉 at the NZ road race champs in New Plymouth!
28/08/2026

Congratulations to Ari u20 10k 🥇, Emma u16 5k 🥈 and Mya (PB) u14 3k 🥉 at the NZ road race champs in New Plymouth!

AGM minutes attached.Welcome to our new committee members.Looking forward to a great season,
20/08/2026

AGM minutes attached.
Welcome to our new committee members.
Looking forward to a great season,

Greetings all.Please see attached an event and training opportunities around the region 😊
14/08/2026

Greetings all.
Please see attached an event and training opportunities around the region 😊

Afternoon team, We really need more committee members as a number of us will be moving on after this season and we'd lik...
20/07/2026

Afternoon team,
We really need more committee members as a number of us will be moving on after this season and we'd like to have a good succession plan.
Please nominate people for the committee after discussing with them. Use this form (email [email protected] and we can send you a pdf).
There is only 1 or 2 meetings a season plus set up and pack down each club night and running/helping to run an event.
TIA!

Congratulations to Ari who received a GOLD 🥇 today in the 5km racewalk in Darwin at the Oceania games! See what you can ...
22/05/2026

Congratulations to Ari who received a GOLD 🥇 today in the 5km racewalk in Darwin at the Oceania games!
See what you can achieve! He's been at Ashhurst athletics from the age of 3!

22/04/2026
20/04/2026

Thanks everyone for coming to prizegiving. Massive thanks to Blair Alabaster Real Estate for funding the certificates that show improvement over the season!

Have a lovely winter and see you back next summer, refreshed and ready to join the committee 😉🤣
(We definitely need help with Ari now off, do please reach out if you're able to help race start or at any event)

Good luck, Ari! If you're keen to watch and are up late, check the link https://athletics.org.nz/preview-2026-world-athl...
11/04/2026

Good luck, Ari! If you're keen to watch and are up late, check the link
https://athletics.org.nz/preview-2026-world-athletics-race-walking-team-championships/?fbclid=IwdGRjcARG5FVjbGNrBEbkE2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHherq6xjK7N4HyRo4L2Xqg6cPOsd_HdGZylO5H5Jvt3d-0lG7-f8Z3JeCDcr_aem_I3RCYEk0rWeFfTSiDZ4Y4w

This year’s World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships will strut into Brasília, the capital of Brazil, this weekend, marking the first time a world

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