Harry Webster, champion race-walker of the 1870s. But was it “unfair going”?

Race-walking in its formative years of the 1860s and 1870s was something of a hit-or-miss affair. There were no properly formulated rules regarding the methods used by competitors, and so the times achieved – some of them quite remarkable – need to be regarded with caution. One of the most prolific “record-breakers” of that era […]

The post Harry Webster, champion race-walker of the 1870s. But was it “unfair going”? appeared first on Northern Athletics.