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BY INVITATION

The Boundary Harriers invitation walk, held on the day of the club's dinner in February, became the Boundary Harriers invitation meeting in 1983 when a run was added, the Manx Airlines meeting the following year and was organised by Manx Harriers for the first time in 1991. There is no run and no dinner this year but Manx Harriers welcome the Isle of Man Steam Packet as sponsors of the European Grand Prix Walks meeting.

Murray Lambden who first competed in 1980 and who has been involved every year since as a walker, runner, lap scorer, judge, referee, child minder, press reporter and for many years the video editor, republishes many of the results, comments and database of the event which was one of the first features on www.manxathletics.com

If there is no hyperlink from the year, it means I've still not published the result but it is on my agenda.

1970 Walks
1971 Walks
1972 Walks
1973 Walks
1974 Walks
1975 Walks
1976 Walks
1977 Walks
1978 Walks
1979 Walks
1980 Walks
1981 Walks
1982 Walks
1983 Walks	1983 Runs
1984 Walks	1984 Runs
1985 Walks	1985 Runs
1986 Walks	1986 Runs
1987 Walks	1987 Runs
1988 Walks	1988 Runs
1989 Walks	1989 Runs
1990 Walks	1990 Runs
1991 Walks	1991 Runs
1992 Walks	1992 Runs
1993 Walks	1993 Runs
1994 Walks	1994 Runs
1995 Walks	1995 Runs
1996 Walks	1996 Runs
1997 Walks	1997 Runs
1998 Walks	1998 Runs
1999 Walks	1999 Runs
2000 Walks	2000 Runs
2001 Walks	2001 Runs
2002 Walks	2002 Runs
2003 Walks
Fastest 10km	Fastest 10km
Fastest 20km men	Fastest 30km
Fastest 20km women	Fastest 50km
Fastest 30km	Fastest 40 Miles

PLEASE NOTE - NO TIMES PRIOR TO 1980 YET INCLUDED

The first of three old photos supplied by Steve Partington from the invitation meeting.

Steve Partington, Martin Rush, Darrell Stone, Jimmy McDonald and Mark Easton.

The interest centres in particular on the venue - it was the only year in the meeting's history that a different course was used. The National Sports Centre was under construction and so the event moved to St Johns in 1991.

The author and webeditor (left) with one of the stars of the meeting over many years, five times Olympic Games walker Chris Maddocks at last year's Commonwealth Games. Picture by Gladys Callow - not sure why she leaned over quite so far to take it!

STEAM PACKET WALKS MEETING - INDEX

THIS HISTORY OF THE INVITATION MEETING

RESULTS AND PICTURES

MORE PICTURES

JEFF CASSIN FEATURE