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 3rd – Bronze
Etan Hooper Javelin -15.76 6th
U/15
Hannah Black – Hammer 17.89 3rd, Javelin 28.77 2nd (Club U15 Record) ,Discus 20.99 2nd -Two Silver and One Bronze
Louise Clifford – Javelin 18.78 4th
Abraham Lanahan – 200m 25.37, High Jump 1.66 ,Triple Jump 11.79 – Two Golds for jumps
Lucas Millican Javelin 18.56 6th , 800m 2.37.42 11th
U/17
Annie McLean -300m 39.70 championship record -Gold -200m 3rd 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 2nd , LJ -6.25 -1st -Silver & Gold
Callum Thompson -100m -11.61 4th
Chloe Fox -Javelin -27.74 4th
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 -1st Ryad Chebbout
Senior Ladies 2nd Tilly Hamilton , 3rd Mary Wilson
U/23 Lady -1st Gemma Griffins
FV50 -Lady 3rd 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 3rd 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 3rd 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 23rd 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 -6th ) 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