1927 AAA Championships

{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}}

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{{Infobox Athletics Championships

|Name = 1927 AAA Championships

|Host city = London, England

|Dates = 1–4 July 1927

|Stadium = Stamford Bridge

|Level = Senior

|Type = Outdoor

|Events = 23

|Previous = 1926

|Next = 1928

|Games = AAA Championships

}}

The 1927 AAA Championships was the 1927 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 1 to 4 July 1927 at Stamford Bridge in London, England.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003212/19270702/184/0010 |title=Bid for Athletics titles |work=Daily News (London) |date=2 July 1927 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 July 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003358/19270703/260/0017 |title=An Olympiad |work=Weekly Dispatch (London) |date=3 July 1927 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 July 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000264/19270705/022/0004 |title=Records go abroad|work=Western Daily Press |date=5 July 1927 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=13 July 2024}}

The Championships consisted of 23 events and covered three days of competition. The marathon was held in Fallowfield, Manchester on 30 July.

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Results

{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=13 July 2024}}

File:Douglas Lowe 1926.jpg

File:Cyril Ellis (1928).jpg

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width=100|Event

!colspan="2" width="280" style="background:gold;|Gold

!colspan="2" width="280" style="background:silver;|Silver

!colspan="2" width="280" style="background:#CD7F32;|Bronze

100 yards

| {{flagicon|GER}} Helmut Körnig

10.1

| {{flagicon|GER}} Hubert Houben

1 ft

| Harold Hodge

1½-2 yd
220 yards

| {{flagicon|GER}} Hubert Houben

21.8

|Guy Butler

inches

|{{flagicon|GER}} Jokob Schuller

2 yd
440 yards

|Douglas Lowe

48.8

|{{flagicon|ITA|1861}} Alfredo Gargiullo

5-6 yd

|Roger Leigh-Wood

inches
880 yards

| Douglas Lowe

1:54.6

|{{flagicon|WAL|1807}} Cecil Griffiths

1:56.8

|{{flagicon|FRA}} René Feger

2 yd
1 mile

| Cyril Ellis

4:17.0

| {{flagicon|GER}} Herbert Böcher

4:18.2

| {{flagicon|FRA}} Séra Martin

2 yd
4 miles

| {{flagicon|SWE}} Bror Ohrn

19:40.8

| Charles Frith

19:42.4

| Brian Oddie

60 yd
10 miles

| Ernest Harper

52:21.2

| George Constable

54:26.2

| Louis Payne

55:23.2
marathon

| {{flagicon|NIR}} Sam Ferris

2:48:46.4

| Tom Heeley

3:00:22.4

| C. E. Mitchell

3:02:13.6
steeplechase

| Jack Webster

11:06.0

| Edward Oliver

10:59.6

| H. Blades

100 yd
120y hurdles

| Frederick Gaby

14.9 NR

| {{flagicon|SAF|1912}} George Weightman-Smith

1 yd

| {{flagicon|SWE}} Sten Pettersson

440y hurdles

| Lord Burghley

54.2 WR

| {{flagicon|SCO}} Thomas Livingstone-Learmonth

55.2

| {{flagicon|ITA|1861}} Luigi Facelli

55.4
2 miles walk

| Alf Pope

14:21.6

|Albert Fletcher

8 yd

| C. C. Coulson

10 yd
7 miles walk

| Wilf Cowley

55:46.4

| L. G. Sandy

56:25.0

| Edward Presland

56:59.0
high jump

| {{flagicon|SWE}} Herbert Adolfsson

1.829

| {{flagicon|IRL}} Con O'Connor
Jack London
{{flagicon|CEY}} Thomas Tweed

1.803

| n/a

pole jump

| {{flagicon|SWE}} Henry Lindblad

3.81

| {{flagicon|DEN}} Henry Petersen

3.66

| {{flagicon|HUN}} Janos Karlovits

3.66
long jump

| {{flagicon|GER}} Rudolf Dobermann

7.31

| {{flagicon|SWE}} Eric Svensson

7.28

| {{flagicon|NED}} Willem Peters

7.28
triple jump

| {{flagicon|NED}} Willem Peters

15.47

| {{flagicon|SWE}} Eric Svensson

14.92

| {{flagicon|HUN}} Elemér Somfay

14.25
shot put

| {{flagicon|GER}} Georg Brechenmacher

14.18

|{{flagicon|HUN}} József Darányi

14.16

|{{flagicon|GER}} Ernst Söllinger

13.62
discus throw

| {{flagicon|HUN}} Kálmán Marvalits

44.40

|{{flagicon|HUN}} Kalman Egri

43.76

|{{flagicon|GER}} Hans Hoffmeister

42.30
hammer throw

|{{flagicon|SWE}} Ossian Skiöld

50.30

|Malcolm Nokes

49.31

|{{flagicon|GER}} Josef Mang

42.71
javelin throw

| {{flagicon|HUN}} Béla Szepes

64.80

|{{flagicon|NOR}} Olav Sunde

62.12

|{{flagicon|DEN}} Svend Gjorling

55.96
1 mile relay

| Achilles Club

3m 19.2-5 sec

| Surrey AC

50 yd

| Herne Hill

Tug of war

| M Division Met Police

|London Fire Brigade| n/a

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