On Sunday the club hosted the Scottish 10km Championships in Glasgow Green within the Babcock Shettleston 10km. This involves a major effort from the club with over 50 members helping on the day and months of planning before the event. The event was of the highest standard with Callum Johnson -Gateshead H 29.45 and Natasha Phillips -Dundee HH 32.57 both breaking the course records. Our ladies have been in sparkling form and again they did not disappoint taking the Scottish 10km team title to add to their National Cross, National Road Relays, WD Cross Country Relays and representing GB at the European Clubs Cross Country Championships. The team was Eilidh Bell, Victoria Riddell and Carly Monaghan. Again, we added to the number of ladies who have achieved success with National medals this year. The total now 12! Victoria and Carly claiming their first every medal at National level. The smiles on their faces said everything. Full results of the Shettleston athletes who competed can be found below
The event also featured a fun run for the first time with local schools and club members taking part. The winner of the Scottish Wheelchair Championships was Kyle Brotherton, Red Star AC -Results for all the events can be found at Babcock Shettleston 10k 2023 Results (protay.co.uk)
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The club were delighted to welcome Ron Morrison (President Scottish Athletics), Colin Hutcheson (Chief Executive Scottish Athletics), Alison Thewliss(MP) and Tony McCory (Business Improvement Director Babcock) to the event. Excellent coverage of the event can be found on the Scottish athletics website- A real showcase for the event and the club.
The club would like to thank the sponsors of the event Babcock and Start Fitness who support the series of 3 races. On a local level –Tunnocks, Arnold Clark, Morrisons and Tesco (Gabi, their Community Champion). The Babcock Races are a joint effort with our friends at Dumbarton AAC and Helensburgh AAC. Pro- timing provided excellent support around our event -Thank you Sharon and Jamie.
The weekend also featured the first Track and Field Championships of the year with events taking place at Kilmarnock and Grangemouth. These were West District for younger athletes and National Open for senior athletes. Full results of all the club athletes can be found on the Scottish athletics website but it is important to highlight some great performances and improvements. A number of tweets and photos can be found on the club’s twitter pages. There was a great middle -distance double with Katie Woods and Adam Clifford claiming medals. Katie running the Steeplechase for the first time, breaking the Club Record by 41 seconds, and Adam running one of the fastest times over 800m at U/17 level in the club for a number of years. Joseph Lanahan in his 3 events won 3 medals! We were also delighted to see a number of field events athletes competing and this is thanks to the excellent work of Tracey Fox and John Scott.
Congratulations to our
Gold medallists
Kaitie Woods -1500m S/C U/17, Joseph Lanahan -100m U/13
Silver medallists
Adam Clifford 800m U/17 , Louise Clifford Javelin U/13, Joseph Lanahan High Jump U/13 ,
Joseph Lanahan Long Jump U/13 , Annie Mclean 300m U/17 , Zoe Roberts 800m U/13
Annie McLean 200m U/17, Jonathan Hooper 100m U/17
With so many athletes competing we may have missed a few, so please let us know!
Also, congratulations to all the athletes who achieved PB performances. Competing in the open competition Amit Kumar jumped an excellent 1.93m in the High Jump just missing his PB of 1.95m
It was another busy week for the club:
Ross Gollan claiming the North District 10km title on Saturday at Forres.
Aidan Quinn claimed two 2nds- TJ 15.65 and LJ 7.07 at the Mountain West Championships (Clavis ,CA,USA).
At Linwood on Tuesday evening Katie Woods warmed up for her Steeple Chase with a PB performance over 1500m 4.49.16.
Lidya Woldeselassie is making her mark in disability sport. Her classification is T/35 and F/35 (Track and Field) categories. At Grangemouth & Kilmarnock she recorded Pbs in 100, Long Jump and discus. This followed on from her excellent results at Coventry Games.
We missed an improvement from Godwin Imante last week at the Pitreavie Open Graded where he improved his 100m PB to 10.88.
Parkruns action
At Falkirk parkrun, Gerard Pelegri ran well for 4th place and a time of 18.07.
At Tollcross there was some good performances with John Craig 2nd in 18.47, David Murphy 12th in 22.14 and Bob Porteous 31st in 26.39.
At Drumpelier Parkrun, Gerry Mason finished in a time of 26.28.
At Queens Parkrun, Fred Davies ran 23.37 and Andew Shields in 32.40.
Over to Levengrove Parkrun where Stuart Carruthers finished in 40.21.
At Elder Parkrun, Evelyn Struthers was 3rd woman in a time of 22.13.
Finally at Palacerigg Country Parkrun, John Duffy finished in 8th place in a time of 20.50.
Please let us know if we have missed a performance.
Nex weekend again sees a very busy time with the club hosting the Scottish Hill Running Championships at the Goatfell Hill Race on Saturday -Thank you to Peter Mackie who is the Race Director of this event, which sold out within a week! On Saturday the second CSSSL league match is taking place at Grangemouth with Elaine Mackay, Club President looking for athletes to compete- Elaine is currently chairperson of this league. Finally on Sunday some of our young athletes travel to Greenock to take part in their Scottish Superteams heat.
Everyone in the club should be immensely proud of the huge contribution we make to our sport and our local community.
Thank you to Bobby Gavin for the photo
Thank you to John Mackay and Mark McColl for writing the reports