With the holiday season in full swing and school holidays athletes have been taking the chance of a break or competing more!
Congratulations to three of our young athletes who have been selected for the Scottish Schools Track and Field team to compete in the Schools International in Carmarthen ,Wales on the 20th July -The first step in your international career , congratulations !
Katie Woods 1500m Steeplechase, Jonathan Hooper 200m ,Long Jump ,4x100m , Annie McLean 300m 3x300m
On Wednesday three athletes travelled to Grangemouth to compete in the Falkirk Victoria Harriers Open Graded Meeting
100m -Molly Brown U/13 14.63, Arif Chapiti Sen 12.38 PB, Clive Ke Sen 12.82 PB
Closer to home three of our masters athletes compete in the Scottish Masters Club 5km in Clydebank
results : 3rd Ally Scott 15.52 M40, 22nd Dan Lowe 17.23 M35, 49th Mark McColl 19.31 M45
To round off his working week Paul Sorrie competed in the 3km on the Green
result : 10th Paul Sorrie 9.42
Moving to the weekend David Houston travelled home to Ireland to compete in the Irish Masters Championships and came away with a Silver medal in M35 age group in a time of 4.28
The big event of the weekend was the British Olympic Trials in Manchester and it was great to see two Shettleston athletes competing in this showcase event
Aidan Quinn returned from his USA base to finish 7th in the Triple Jump (15.05) and Teddy Tchoudja was 11th in the Shot (11.92)
The 3rd Scottish National League event took place at Grangemouth on Sunday with a large turnout for the club .Thank you to our officials, John Coyle, Kevin Slaven and Elaine Mackay, who allow our athletes to compete. It was great to see such a large turnout with a few athletes competing on the track for the first time .
Results below :
100m – Godwin Imante 10.98 WS 0.8, Jonathan Hooper 11.10 WS 0.8,
Tanatorn Longjamnong 11.34 WS 2.5 PB, Emmanuel Nyamekye 11.46 WS 1.9 PB
Clive Ke 12.55 WS 1.9 PB
300m -Katie Woods 45.53
400m – Emma McKinnon 73.54 PB
800m -Sam Lesley 1.59.53, Adam Clifford 2.00.73, Matthew Fox 2.05.11, Cameron Wallace 2.09.27 PB
Katie Woods 2.25.17, Emma Leiper 2.48.34, Emma McKinnon 2.53.54 PB
1500m -Phillip Neilson 4.01.42 PB, Callum Butterworth 4. 22.86 PB
2000m Steeplechase- Tara Walker 7.59.76 PB
High Jump – Amit Kumar 1.94m
Long Jump – Tanatorn Longjamnong 6.52m WS 0.7 PB, Jonathan Hooper 6m45 WS 0.00
The Scottish hill Running Championships continues and the one of the longest races took place over the weekend, Arrochar Alps.
Results Below
CJ Macphail finished 2nd lady and helped the ladies team finish 2nd overall
With Podium places for Iain Pender (2nd M40), Joe Symonds 3rd (M40) and 1,2,3 in the M50 age group Kenny Richmond (1st M55 ), John Connaghan (1st M50) and Alastair Pringle 3rd – it was a great day for our master athletes.
The top senior was Dan Dry who helped the team to finish 4th
| 65. | 7 | Zoe Barber | Shettleston Harriers | F | 4:50:15 | ||
| 62. | 48 | Chris Grant Pantrey | Shettleston Harriers | M40 | 4:48:35 | ||
| 61. | 129 | Stephen Winter | Shettleston Harriers | M40 | 4:46:47 | ||
| 55. | 50 | Gemma Griffiths | Shettleston Harriers | F | 4:37:25 | ||
| 52. | 12 | Bill Breckenridge | Shettleston Harriers | M50 | 4:29:07 | ||
| 51. | 104 | Andrew Shields | Shettleston Harriers | M | 4:28:36 | ||
| 49. | 19 | Ross Cruickshanks | Shettleston Harriers | M | 4:25:23 | ||
| 46. | 92 | Alastair Pringle | Shettleston Harriers | M50 | 4:24:18 | ||
| 37. | 72 | Cj Macphail | Shettleston Harriers | F | 4:13:25 | ||
| 35. | 16 | John Connaghan | Shettleston Harriers | M50 | 4:10:35 | ||
| 21. | 110 | Joe Symonds | Shettleston Harriers | M40 | 3:52:15 | ||
| 20. | 98 | Kenny Richmond | Shettleston Harriers | M50 | 3:51:40 | ||
| 18. | 88 | Iain Pender | Shettleston Harriers | M40 | 3:45:24 | ||
| 16. | 23 | Fred Davies | Shettleston Harriers | M | 3:38:47 | ||
| 12. | 32 | Dan Dry | Shettleston Harriers | M | 3:28:53 | ||
| 8. | 95 | Harry Pulham | Shettleston Harriers | M | 3:21:08 |
The club would like to express its deepest sympathy to all friends at Central Athletic Club with Ally Hay’ ‘s tragic death in recent weeks which has been widely reported. He was a giant in Scottish athletics in recent years and the club had the honour with many battles with Ally and his team mates. He will be missed both by his family and all his friends in our sport – Rest In Peace
Win for Cameron at Crystal Palace Parkrun and Melanie in action in Thurso
There were good results across the park runs this weekend with club members in action across the country from Thurso to Crystal Palace
At Pollok Parkrun, Rowan Lennox finished in a time of 25.28.
Down to London at Crystal Palace, where Cameron Muir ran 17.26 for first position overall.
Back up to the top of Scotland where Melanie Haynes finished the Thurso Parkrun.
At Levengrove Parkrun, Mark McColl coming back from injury, finished 4th in a time of 19.02.
At Elder Parkrun, Callum Oates finished second in a time of 17.08 with Raymond Loughran in a time of 50.52.
Finally at Pavilion Gardens Parkrun Toby Hession finished 11th in a time of 20.10.