The AAA Championships was an annual track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association of England.

440 yards - Challenge Cup presented by Kenelm Thomas Digby, Esq., MP, 45 guineas, an Irish politician.

Educated at Harrow, an Oxford graduate, he won the AAC 880 yards in 1866, was the first Secretary of the Inter-University sports, inspired the boat race near Ghent in 1911 between 8 Jesus college oarsmen and a Belgian crew.

Was Honorary Secretary Middlesex County Cricket Club for many years, an MP for the Clapham division of Battersea from 1892 to 1910.

Married his cousin Florence Emily Sykes and wrote a book on Foreign Secretaries of the Nineteenth Century.

10 miles - Challenge Cup presented by Walter Moresby Chinnery of the London Athletic Club, 50 guineas.

Chinnery was the first amateur to run 1 mile in less than four and a half minutes, which he did at Cambridge on 10 March 1868, and on 30 May that year he repeated the feat at Beaufort House.

[11] High jump - Challenge Cup presented by Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, 3rd Baronet, 35 guineas.

7 miles walk - Challenge Cup presented by John Chambers, founder and secretary of the AAC, 35 guineas.