Another incredibly busy weekend for Shettleston Harriers, across the length and breadth of the country. Most notably is our athletes who competed at the London Marathon, which will be featured in a standalone story.
Scottish University Championships and Track Action
Wednesday saw our student members travel to Aberdeen to compete in the Scottish University Championships. Some excellent performances from our young students.
Results attached.
Emmanuel Nyamekye
100m
Heat 11.30
SF 11.25
Final 6th 11.24
200m
Heat 23.16
SF 22.96
Final 5th 23.42
Emily Fawkes (U20 Women)
100m 12.82 (0.0) Heat
100m 12.58 (0.9) PB Semi
100m 12.65 (0.2) Final 5th
200m 25.82 (-0.7) PB Heat
200m 25.86 (1.3) Final 7th
Shannon Monaghan (Senior Women)
100m 13.82 (0.0) Heat
100m 13.60 (1.4) PB Semi 8th
Long Jump 4.31 (7th)
Shot Putt 7.87 (7th)
GAA Scottish 10,000m Championships and GAA Sprints Gala
Moving back to the Central Belt and our home track on Friday and Saturday, the GAA meetings saw over 20 of our athletes compete across the two days. Friday night saw Tom Porter tackle the Scottish 10,000m Championships, finishing 14th in a time of 34:06.45. Zoe Roberts confirmed her position as the top ranked U16 girl in Scotland over 800m, recording 2:14.51 in her first outdoor run of the season. With Glasgow seeing sunshine on Saturday, our sprinters and hurdlers took advantage of the good conditions at the Sprint Gala, recording PBs and season’s bests over various distances.
Full results attached.
Junior, Hill and Cross Country Success
Rio Biddlecombe finished off his primary education with a fantastic win at the Scottish Primary Cross Country Championships (P7) in Kirkcaldy. By all accounts it was a very close race, with Rio taking the win by 1 second. A great run by this young man, who is making excellent improvements. His club mate Dominic Boyle was also in action, finishing 10th.
Moving to Sunday, Rio continued his good run of form, finishing 2nd in the Lomond Hill Race, which is part of the Scottish Junior Hill League. Euan Grant Pantrey finished 9th in the U16 event. The good news continued when we heard that Ellie Ryan won the Scottish Disability Cross Country title for our age group.
Also over the weekend, a number of young athletes travelled to the Springburn H event, Junior Jack Road Races, with great success. Joseph Paterson (3rd), Alba White (3rd) and Naod Woldeselasie finished 2nd.
Devil of the Highlands
Scottish Internationalist Mike Deason retained his Devil o’ the Highlands 42 mile title. Mike is one of the best ultra runners in Scotland and the UK and, while some of his club mates were due to run the London Marathon the following day, he ran the 42 mile race in 5hrs 39mins 27secs.
Mike was originally from New Mexico in the USA and came to Scotland to study for a PhD and stayed. He had a great career on the track (3km steeplechase) and was part of the strong Shettleston team on the road and country in the mid 2000s before moving to ultra events.
The Devil of the Highlands is a 42 mile race held on the top half of the West Highland Way, from Tyndrum to Fort William. It includes 6,500 feet, almost 2,000 metres of climb, and has a 12 hour cut off time.
Round the Houses 10km
On Sunday, a number of our master athletes travelled to Grangemouth.
Ronald Strachan 00:35:28 (V40, 6th)
Iain Burns 00:35:53 (V45, 1st)
John Duffy 00:39:48 (V60, 4th)
John Oates 00:43:30 (V65, 3rd)
All Shettleston Harriers.
Parkrun Round-Up – Saturday April 25th 2026
Shettleston runners were spotted as far away as Sweden, where Holly Morrison bagged a 1st female position at Haga parkrun. Closer to home, Matthew Fancourt claimed top spot at Cuningar Loop, while Cameron Muir and Gerard Pelegri were both in the top 5 at Queen’s.
Tollcross
John Craig 21:35 (6th)
Trevor Baker 22:07 (9th)
David Murphy 23:12 (16th)
Lee Mitchell 24:04 (20th)
Joanne Harkins 31:06 (52nd)
Gillian McMillan 34:25 (63rd)
Cuningar Loop
Matthew Fancourt 17:05 (1st)
Jess Martin 54:56 (271st)
Queen’s
Cameron Muir 16:41 (2nd)
Gerard Pelegri 18:23 (5th)
Pollok
Cameron Maguire 24:19 (65th)
Victoria
Duncan McCauley 22:25 (55th)
Ayr
Rebecca Ryan 30:01 (44th)
Ellie Ryan 36:47 (74th)
Camperdown
Matthew Low 23:05 (32nd)
Haga
Holly Morrison 20:44 (14th), 1st female