Emirates Action – SA Open and Superteams, Road and Cross Country Action

It was a very busy weekend for club athletes which saw a number of excellent performances over indoor track , cross country and road races .

Godwin Imante continues to shine, going 4^th in the clubs all time lists over 60m when he recorded 6.99secs at the Scottish National Open event on Saturday. He also recorded the fastest 60m of the day as a first year U/20 athlete. He followed this up with a PB over 200m 22.26. It was a day of PB performances for a number of our athletes full results below:

Michael Quilligan  Sen  60m 7.53 , Emmanuel Nyamekye Sen 60m 7.85   PB  /200m 24.37 PB

Emily Tollett U/15 60m 9.26 PB  /200m  31.99 PB, Estelle Giraud U/15 200m 30.53 PB /HJ 1.34 PB

Morgan Findlay Sen TJ 10.24, Teddy Tchoudja SP 14.19, Jonathan Hooper LJ 5.98

Sunday saw the action at the Emirates moved to our Under 12 athletes with the Indoor version of the popular Superteams. The Girls A team of Rebecca Jatto, Charlotte Reilly, Islay Reid and Zoe Roberts finished 7th, with the Girls B team of Gabrielle Narey, Amelia McGurn, Olivia Barr and Molly Brown finishing 42nd, the Boys A Team was also 7th with Edanne Gomes, Mitchell McIntosh, Thierry Giraud and Joseph Lanahan, with the Boys B Team of Naod Woldeselassie, Tristan Giraud, Conor Koliadimas with Luke Connor of Law who made up the team. Also Joseph Lanahan was first individual in the boys with Rebecca Jatto, Zoe Roberts and Edanne Gomes who were all in the top 20 individuals. Plenty of PB’s and well done everyone

See Results for Superteams

Huge Thank You to all the team managers and coaches who helped to prepare and supported the athletes on the day, without you we would not have a sport.

As the above athletes enjoyed the warmth of the Emirates a number of athletes travelled to Kilmarnock to compete in the 2^nd West District Cross Country league .Katie Woods enjoyed the return to Kilmarnock winning her U/15 age group after running well at Perth last weekend. Matthew Fox U/15 also  showed a return to form finishing 7^th in his age group. Top senior finishers was Mark Mckelvie who finished 4th

Full results below 

U/11 boys Naod Woldeselassie 23rd

U/13 boys 4th Team Matthew Cameron 13^th , Lucas Millican 16th, Sam McGowan 17th

U/15 boys Matthew Fox 7^th 

U/15 girls  Katie Woods 1st, Katie Burns 16th

U/17 boys  Joseph Reilly 9th

Sen Men  4th Team Mark McKelvie 4^th, Sam Lesley 13th, Andrew Taylor 18th, Andrew Jackson 30th Duncan McCauley 53rd, Richard Millar 105^th 

Switching to the roads on Sunday and the West District 10km Championships at the Historic Nigel Barge  (80^th Anniversary Race) saw a win for Taha Ghafari (30.47) leading the team of Fed Davis and Fergus Donnelly to take the WD team title. Taha is set to leave for Australia to compete in the World Cross Country Championships early new month as part of the Olympic World Refugee team. This was the reward for an excellent run at the European Cross country Championships just before Christmas.

Results below 326 finished 

Taha Ghafari 1^st 30.47, Fred Davis 8^th 32.18, Fergus Donnelly 24^th 34.10, Paul Sorrie 28^th (7^th M40) 34.22

Scott McKelvie 46^th 36.16, Denis Williams 97^th (6^th M50) 39.56, Kirsten Vieria Da Luz 211th(17^th F) 47.31

Andrew Shields 290^th 54.32 

There was an international feel to the weekend with Fionnula Ross selected to run for Ireland in the CrossCup de Hannut ( Belgium). Fionnula placed 13^th in an international field with the race winner Rahel Daniel ( Eritrea) out pacing the field.