December 2003
Euro
XCountry: McColgan set for Holyrood Run posted
11 December
Following a last minute decision, scottishathletics
Chairperson and former World Cross Country Championships
medallist Liz McCOLGAN will be racing at Holyrood
Park this weekend as part of the 10th Spar European
Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh. .. | more
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New
start for Butler as funding is restored posted
10 December
KATHY Butler, who lost much of her funding last year
after suffering a long-term injury, is one of six
entrants to the Scottish Institute of Sport’s
Athletics Programme. The 30-year-old, who runs for
Britain in Sunday’s European Cross-Country Championships
in Edinburgh, rejoins the programme, while the five
new additions are Chloe Cozens, Susan Deacon (nee
Burnside), Carey Marshall, Hayley Ovens and Iain Park.
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Ovens
posts best time but lacks necessary back-up posted
09 December
SCOTTISH Commonwealth Games 1500 metres runner Hayley
Ovens led the field with the day’s fastest time
at the end of the first lap of the Scottish Cross
Country Relay Championships at Cumbernauld on Saturday,
but unfortunately she had no-one to hand over to.
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Fine
name of Harriers set to make a comeback posted
06 December
ONE of the great names in Scottish athletics club
history, Edinburgh Southern Harriers, is to be revived
after more than a decade. | more
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2006
Games team bank on support posted 04 December
SCOTLAND’s Commonwealth Games team management
are in negotiations with the Bank of Scotland to renew
a sponsorship deal, and hope to conclude an agreement
soon.
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November 2003
Butler
leads the way but Scots face an anxious wait
posted 24 November
SCOTLAND could have as many as three representatives
in the Great Britain team for the European X-Country
Championships, but only one place is guaranteed. |
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Phoenix
Racers rise from city club's ashes posted 22
November
IT has taken the members of the now disbanded running
club Racing Club Edinburgh just two weeks to decide
that they want to continue as a group and form a new
club | more
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XCountry:
Butler could be lone Scot in Holyrood posted
24 November
LIZ McColgan has decided against bidding to qualify
for next month’s European Cross-Country Championships
in Edinburgh - despite being in her best form for
years. | more
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XCountry:
Murray goes solo for British vest posted 20
November
LIZ McColgan has decided against bidding to qualify
for next month’s European Cross-Country Championships
in Edinburgh - despite being in her best form for
years. | more
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XCountry:
Butler leads strong side posted 19 November
EDINBURGH-born Kathy Butler, who was fourth in the
1999 World Championships, leads one of the strongest-ever
Scottish women’s athletics teams to Liverpool
on Saturday for the official UK trials for next month’s
European Championships in Edinburgh. | more
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McColgan:
Running in the family posted 16 November
Athletics: She is 39, has four children and a business
to look after, but there is still no stopping Liz
McColgan when it comes to competing . | more
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Scottish
Athletics : Joy leaves Scottish post posted
15 November
ONE of the strongest Scottish squads in recent memory
will compete in this weekend’s British trials
for the European Cross-Country Championships in Liverpool,
with the quality being especially noticeable in the
women’s team. Kathy Butler, Susan Partridge,
Collette Fagan and Freya Murray all have hopes of
making it into the Great Britain team for next month’s
event in Edinburgh. . | more
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XCountry:
Butler to launch European campaign posted 14
November
THE last time Kathy Butler raced in her native city,
it was on school sports day at South Morningside Primary.
The next time, all being well, will be at a somewhat
bigger event - next month’s European Cross Country
Championships in Holyrood Park. . | more
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XCountry:
McColgan strides clear of cross country championships
posted 14 November
LIZ McColgan has decided against bidding to qualify
for next month’s European Cross-Country Championships
in Edinburgh - despite being in her best form for
years.
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Race
signals the demise of Racing Club posted 08
November
JUST over a month before the European Cross-Country
Championships are due to take place in Holyrood Park,
Racing Club Edinburgh, the Capital’s and Scotland’s
most successful road running club, have decided to
disband. | more
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October 2003
Wylie
back on track in warm-up to European competition
posted 20 October
A BACK injury suffered at a midweek circuit session
prevented Glen Stewart from taking part in Saturday’s
Reebok British Challenge cross-country series opener
at Falkirk’s Callender Park. However, Scotland’s
other top cross-country runners warmed up ambitions
to run for Britain at December’s European Cross-country
Championships in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park. |
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XCountry:
Murray Aims To Make An Impact posted 16 October
Scottish golden girl Freya Murray is in regal form
as she heads for the Reebok Falkirk Cross Challenge
on Saturday - the first stage of her campaign to win
a place in the GB and Northern Ireland team at this
winter's Spar European Cross Country Championships
in her home city of Edinburgh. | more
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Mountain:
Scots trio take gold in the cold posted 02
October
TRACEY BRINDLEY, part of the ladies trio which secured
Scotland’s first-ever World Mountain Running
Trophy team gold medal in Alaska, has revealed how
Scottish-like conditions helped their glory bid. .
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Road:
Relay Race set to take new route posted 02
October
THE Edinburgh to Glasgow eight-stage road relay, affectionately
known as the "E to G", is to become the
"E to F" (Edinburgh to Falkirk). . | more
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September 2003
Road:
The Loch Ness Marathon posted 29 September
The Loch Ness Marathon is proving to be a huge boost
for tourism to the Highlands, organisers claimed last
night. | more
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Road:
Runners hit out at choice of City course posted
24 September
IF the Capital City Challenge is to attract bigger
and better fields then the views of the competitors
will have to be considered. There was much condemnation
of the decision to include the Arthur’s Seat
loop round Holyrood Park. | more
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Road:
Stewart takes 10th Capital 10K win posted 22
September
GLEN Stewart collected his seventh Scottish 10k road
race title and his 18th Scottish national title in
all yesterday, when he won the Capital City Challenge
for the second year in a row from a strong field in
Edinburgh. | more
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Edinburgh
marathon results | more
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Road:
Stewart takes 10th Capital 10K win posted 22
September
GLEN Stewart collected his seventh Scottish 10k road
race title and his 18th Scottish national title in
all yesterday, when he won the Capital City Challenge
for the second year in a row from a strong field in
Edinburgh. | more
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XCountry : Falkirk wins venue
posted 15 September
FALKIRK has been granted the first fixture in the
Reebok Cross Challenge series of cross country meetings
on October 18, replacing Edinburgh as the Scottish
venue because of the European Cross Country Championships
which take place in Holyrood Park on December 14
McColgan's
persistence will run on
LESS than a week into her new job as chairperson of
scottishathletics, Liz McColgan has already displayed
that gritty determination which made her the world
and Commonwealth 10,000 metres champion in her 20s.
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Road
: Kenyans give Glasgow crowd a finish to savour
posted 08 September
Peter Kiprotich won the two man sprint for the line,
beating fellow Kenyan Jason Mbote into second while
South Africa's Abner Chipu, who dropped with early
pace setter Jimmy Muindi with 200m to go, snatched
third. . | more
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XCountry
: Partridge targets Holyrood posted 04 September
THE most high-profile athletics event to be staged
in Edinburgh for 17 years is now just over three months
away. To be precise, tomorrow there will be only 100
days to go before the 10th Spar European Cross-Country
Challenge - which itself celebrates the 100th anniversary
of the first international cross-country meeting,
held at Hamilton racecourse on 28 March 1903. | more
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August 2003
Track
: Edinburgh pipped to second spot posted 05
August
DESPITE finishing runners up in the final match of
the UK Women’s Athletics league at Grangemouth
yesterday, Edinburgh Woollen Mill had to settle for
third place overall this season behind their Scottish
rivals City of Glasgow. | more
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Road :City of Edinburgh 10K
race posted 05 August
DAVID ROSS (RC Edinburgh) won the City of Edinburgh
AC 10k Road Race from Granton yesterday, beating his
namesake and clubmate, John, by 16 seconds in a time
of 32.40.
Road :City of Edinburgh 10K
race posted 05 August
DAVID ROSS (RC Edinburgh) won the City of Edinburgh
AC 10k Road Race from Granton yesterday, beating his
namesake and clubmate, John, by 16 seconds in a time
of 32.40.
