West District action on track and hills, Babcock 10k, news from USA and open graded

This week saw Shettleston Harriers on the Track, Road and the Hills. With the West District Championships both on the Track and Hills as well as the Babcock Shettleston 10km it saw the resources and helpers working very hard over the weekend. It also saw a lot of success and the club would like to thank everyone who made such an efforts to allow our athletes to compete.

The week started on Tuesday evening when a number of young athletes made the trip to Linwood to compete in the Kilbarchan Open Graded Meeting. In an almost a  perfect night lots of PB performances were achieved.

100m – Rio Biddlecombe U/11 17.78, Louis Millican U/11 15.90, Miley Caldwell U/13 17.63

              Arianna Obiora U/13 14.31, Molly Brown U/13 14.67 (all legal wind speeds)

1500m – Lucas Millican  U/15 5.36.27, Kate Monaghan U/17 5.59.54, Miley Caldwell U/13 6.44.76

Zoe Roberts U/13 5.13.59 , Daisy Gildea U/15 5.24.57

Over Saturday and Sunday the West District Scottish Championships and Scottish Open events took place at Kilmarnock and Grangemouth Stadiums. It was one of the most successful medal haul for a number of years. 

Highlights include three wins for Zoe Roberts U13, double wins for Jonathan Hooper, double wins for Abraham Lanahan, wins for Katie Woods and Annie McLean, three medals for Hannah Black and a medal for Molly Brown and a host of pb performances- yes a great weekend for the club  members.

U/13 

Zoe Roberts 200m -27.68 , 800m 2.26.57 ,Long Jump 4.30m -Three Golds 

Molly Brown 200m -29.03 3^rd – Bronze

Etan Hooper Javelin -15.76 6^th 

U/15 

Hannah Black – Hammer 17.89 3^rd, Javelin 28.77 2^nd (Club U15 Record) ,Discus 20.99 2^nd -Two Silver and One Bronze

Louise Clifford – Javelin 18.78 4^th 

Abraham Lanahan – 200m 25.37, High Jump  1.66 ,Triple Jump 11.79 – Two Golds for jumps

Lucas Millican Javelin 18.56  6^th , 800m 2.37.42 11^th 

U/17 

Annie McLean -300m 39.70 championship record  -Gold -200m 3^rd 25.15 -Bronze 

Avia Millican -300m 41.78 – Bronze

Katie Woods -1500m S/C -5.23.55 Championship record and improved her club record – Gold 

Jonathan Hooper -100m 11.05 2^nd , LJ -6.25 -1^st -Silver & Gold

Callum Thompson -100m -11.61 4^th 

Chloe Fox -Javelin -27.74 4^th 

Matthew Fox -1500m – 4.20.91 4th

U/20 

Godwin Imante -200m 22.19 -Fastest 

Ben Lomond Hill Race -West District Championships 

The heat wave over the weekend may have suited the Track & Field athletes both it had a major impact on our Hill Runners as they competed in the West District Championships at the Ben Lomond Hill Race. Again the club picked up a whole string of medals over different age groups -Full results of the race can be found at Protay timing. https://protay.co.uk/

Championships Medals -WD

Senior Men -1^st Ryad Chebbout 

Senior Ladies 2^nd Tilly Hamilton , 3^rd Mary Wilson 

U/23 Lady  -1^st Gemma Griffins

FV50 -Lady 3^rd Susan Breckenridge 

Babcock Shettleston 10km at Glasgow Green

Moving to Sunday the club hosted the first Babcock 10km race of the series -The series  has been run for 41 years and over 10000 athletes have taken part. The club is very grateful to Babcock, Start Fitness, The Community Advertiser, Morrisons ,Tesco, Arnold Clark , Free Wheel North, St Andrews First Aid ,Raynet and Protay timing for their support. Our partners in the series Dumbarton AAC and Helensburgh help is essential to allow the series to run. It is a major effort for the club to put on this event and we want to thank all club members and club friends who helped to allow this to happen. The hot weather again was not kind to the athletes and no records were run over the flat and fast Glasgow Green course. Natasha Phillips (Dundee) led home Olympic athlete Sonia Samuels (Sale) with our own athlete Fionnuala Ross in 3^rd place – Our ladies team of Fionnuala ,Victoria Riddell and Suzi Blake took the team prize. The men’s race was a lot closer with Lewis McAlpine  (Stornoway) just hold off our Taha Ghafari by 2 seconds, Stuart Donnachie took 3^rd place -The men’s team of Taha, Paul Sorrie and Michael Paxton were 3rd. Again a host of other Shettleston athletes took part and full results can be found on https://protay.co.uk/.The next leg of the series moves to Dumbarton on the 23^rd May – Not entered you still have time 

Jamie Burns finished off his American experience over the weekend at the Summit League Outdoor T&F Championships in St Paul’s Minnesota. You do what your university asks in the USA and Jamie was tasked to run the 10000m (30.27 -6^th ) and then a 5000m(14.57.66 -3rd) in a busy weekend. Jamie  is due home in the next few weeks and he will be a great addition to the club again