The editor of a Dublin newspaper, The Sport, sponsored a "team" of three athletes from Ireland to come to the championship, paying their travel and accommodation expenses for their stay at the Bedford Head Hotel in Tottenham Court Road, London. The first Australian athletic championship was held at Moore Park, Sydney, in May 1890. He was the first Australian competitor since Bernhard Wise won the mile in 1881. The only competitor from outside of Great Britain was Peter James from Sydney, who competed without distinction in the 100 yards. Conversions have been obtained using the International Metric Conversion Tables published by the International Amateur Athletics Federation in 1970. Field event performances are shown in feet and inches as they were originally measured, with a conversion to metric measurement in parentheses. It was customary at the time for race winners only to have their performances recorded, therefore, in the tables below other competitors are shown with the distance each man was behind the man in front. There were no heats in the field events, some of which had only two or three competitors, and the only track event in which heats were necessary was the 100 yards. In subsequent years they swapped the 880 yards and 1 mile over, to make the 1 mile as far as possible from the 4 miles. The programme was changed slightly, placing the 880 yard final first in the order of events to separate it as much as possible from the 1 mile.
The fourteen events on the programme were for men only, with heats and finals all held on the same day, with the exception of the 10 miles race, which was held on the following Monday, 5 July, at the same venue. The band of the 4th Middlesex Regiment entertained spectators between events and the prizes were presented by Mrs Montague Shearman, wife of the President of the AAAs and the 440 yards champion in 1880. The attendance was lower than on previous occasions with not more than two thousand spectators inside the ground when competition commenced at three o'clock in the afternoon. Ĭompetitions took place in magnificent, almost tropical, weather, that was, if anything, too hot for athletes in the longer events. The 1886 AAA Championships was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held on Saturday 3 July at Stamford Bridge, London, England.
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