The AAA Indoor Championships was an annual indoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association of England. It was the foremost indoor domestic athletics event during its lifetime.[1][2]
The event was first held in 1935, following the construction of an adequate venue in Wembley Arena in London for the 1934 British Empire Games. The first iteration of the competition lasted for five editions and featured around nine men's indoor track and field events and six for women. The onset of World War II meant the competition was not held in 1940. The second iteration of the competition began in 1962, returning to its Wembley venue. The championships had a long residency at RAF Cosford indoor arena from 1965 to 1991, then from 1992 to 2001 at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. The final few editions for held at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield.[3] The event ceased in 2006, being replaced by the UK Athletics-organised British Indoor Athletics Championships.
Though organised by the English governing body, it was open to all athletes from the United Kingdom, and also to overseas athletes. (Most of the foreign athletes who competed were Irish or UK-based.) It served as the de facto British Championships, given the absence of such a competition during its history. It was typically held over two days over a weekend in February.
It was among the earliest and most significant annual indoor track and field competitions, being preceded only by the AAU Indoor Track and Field Championships in the United States (established in 1907). The restarting of the AAA Indoor Championships in 1962 came alongside similar national developments elsewhere, including the German Indoor Championships in 1954 and Soviet Indoors in 1964.[4][5] The European Athletics Indoor Championships became the first regular indoor international championship in 1966.[6]
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1987 AAAIndoorChampionships title and went on to finish fifth in the 800m finals at the 1987 World IndoorChampionships and 1988 European Indoor Championships...
went on to win the 1993 UK Championships, the AAAChampionships three times (1993, 1994, 1996), and the AAAIndoorChampionships three times (1994, 1995...
replaced the AAAIndoorChampionships, organised by the Amateur Athletic Association of England, which had served as the de facto national championship since...
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Athletics Association (AAA) IndoorChampionships. He then won both the 100 and 200 metres at the UK Championships, and at the AAAChampionships in the same year...
the 1989 AAAIndoorChampionships 3000 metres title, she went on to win a silver medal in the 3000m at the 1989 European IndoorChampionships, and to finish...
winning at the AAAIndoorChampionships at the age of just 19. Her outdoor best of 1.89 metres was set on 11 June 1994, when winning the AAA title. Having...
the AAAIndoorChampionships of 1990. By 1992 he returned to representing Great Britain in competitions. He competed at the World Championships in 1993...
training partner Kelly Sotherton took bronze. AAAChampionships Long jump: 1996, 1998 AAAIndoorChampionships 60 m hurdles: 1997 Long jump: 1994, 1995, 1998...
four straight titles at the AAA Junior Championships and three straight AAA Junior Indoor titles. He set national indoor age bests for 16-year-olds in...
replaced the AAAIndoorChampionships run by the Amateur Athletic Association of England, which had been the de facto national indoorchampionship since 1935...
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at the AAAChampionships in 1994 and 1995, and the national indoor title at the AAAIndoorChampionships in 1995 and 1996. AAAChampionships 400 m: 1994...
European Championships. She won a total of 22 medals at AAA, UK and AAAIndoorChampionships between 1986 and 1998, including twice winning the AAAIndoor Championships...
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