Last Sunday (28th April) saw the 3rd event in a row at our home track of Crownpoint .The investment the club made along with our three partner clubs in photofinish equipment is paying off with Crownpoint being a choice as a venue. The GAA Sprint Gala saw a host of personal bests performances from the club – We believe 18!
100m – U/11 Johnson Kabete 17.54 PB.
U/13 Joseph Lanahan 12.85 PB, Zoe Roberts 14.40 PB, Molly Brown 14.55, Amelia Ross McGurn 16.26 PB, Ava Prentice 16.47 PB, Amirah Sajjad 19.80 PB
U/15 Abraham Lanahan 12.74 PB, Esme Guinea 15.23 SB, Natasha Nlumbile 16.29PB
Senior Men Arif Chapti12.59
150m – U/13 Joseph Lanahan 19.49 PB, Ava Prentice 25.58PB
U/15 Abraham Lanahan 19.07 PB
U/17 Jonathan Hooper 17.10PB, Annie McLean19.31 PB
U/20 Godwin Imante PB 16.58
Senior Men Arif Chapti 18.74 PB
70m Hurdles – U/13 Molly Brown 14.71 PB
80m Hurdles – U/17 Estelle Giraud 17.65 PB
The Wangie Wizz is a traditional Mid week Hill race near Dryman – A large group of Shettleston athletes were on the Hills on Wednesday evening
Results
Ladies Tilly Hamilton 2nd , Anna Steen 13th
Men Cameron Muir 6th , Stewart Houston 11th, Ross Cruickshanks 17th, Donnie Buglass 18th,
Angus Rodney 20th, Jamie Sutherland 38th
Male 40 Luis Eisen 2nd , Paul Mason 4th , Gavin Finbow 18th
Male 50 John Connaghan 1st
Friday night saw the action switch to Edinburgh for the Scottish 5km Road Championships with over 700 entries .With Lynn McKenna missing and the ladies team short of a few regaining the team title was always out of reach .It was great to see Peter Avent back in action the men’s race after being out injured for nearly a year
Ladies Team 9th – Aoife Carr 16th 17.42, Victoria Riddell 52nd 18.46, Holly Morrison 53rd 18.52
Tara Walker 58th 1901
Men – Fred Davies 30th 15.06, Peter Avent 40th 15.13, Gerry Pelegri 198th 17.09, Adam Lee 247th 17.45
William Bradley 319th 18.32
Male 40 – Alastair Scott 5th 15.51 Iain Burns 23rd 16.52
Male U/17 – Matthew Fox 15th 16.43
John Duffy turned the clock back when winning the Male 60 prize in the classic Edinburgh to North Berwick 20mile Race .He previously won the race back in 2002 when it was a 22mile race and also pick up the M50 prize in the last few years.
The action moved to Grangemouth for the 2nd National League Match on Sunday 5th May
Congratulations to Ava Millican for recording yet another PB over 300m in a time of 42.77 nearly 2secs off her PB from last year
PB performances were also obtained by
Tanatorn Longjamnong 100m 11.41 W +1/7 and Maynard Conteh 200m 23.22 W +2.0
Teddy Tchoudja continued her winning ways with a win the Shot with a season best outdoors of 13.00m and he club mate Chloe Fox just missed her PB in the Javelin with a throw of 24.38
Other results below
Katie Woods 1500m 5.01.30, Tammy Adelabu Triple Jump 8.24m, Alicja Taborek 100m 14.55
Clive Ke 100m 12.85/ 200m 26.52
Congratulations to Charlotte Narducci who has been training with us all winter during her University course and is a 2nd claim member smashing her PB over 1500m with a time of 4.51.82 when running for Aberdeen AAC
The final event of the weekend was the Springburn Harriers Road Races for Young Athletes – Four athletes made the trip to Kirkintilloch with Joseph Paterson making the podium supported by his club mates, Rio Biddlecombe ,Tristan Giraud and Thierry Giraud
Busy week with 54 Shettleston athletes in action over the last 7 days – thank you to all the officials ,parents and coaches who made this possible.