The Sheffield is a running event over 130 yards (118.872 meters). The discipline is said to have originated in the town of Sheffield in England with contestants running from one pub to another pub in the town 130 yards away.[1] The event is reported to have been first held in Sheffield in the early 1860s.[2]
References
edit- ^ Flanagan, Martin (25 May 2017). "Ricky Dunbar - 77 and still running". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ "SIMPSON'S SHEFFIELD HANDICAP". South Australian Weekly Chronicle. Vol. XXIX, no. 1, 461. South Australia. 21 August 1886. p. 15. Retrieved 16 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.