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Eilish McColgan
As Mother’s Day approaches, we caught up with Scottish 3000m steeplechaser record holder, Eilish McColgan, daughter of former World 10,000m Champion Liz McColgan, to find out what it was like growing up with one of GB’s greatest distance runners. [Read more…]
Kris Gauson
Kris Gauson has ambitions to feature at the World Indoor Championships in Turkey in March – and he kept those hopes firmly on track over the weekend.
The 23-year-old delivered one of the best runs over 3000 metres indoors by a Scot in a number of years at the Gladstein Invitational in Indiana. [Read more…]
Claire Gibson for Glasgow
Scottish middle distance athlete Claire Gibson will commence her 2012 campaign in style when she makes her Aviva GB & NI Team debut in Glasgow this weekend.
Twenty-nine-year-old Gibson will don the prestigious Aviva GB & NI vest for the first time in her career when she lines up to contest the 800m in front of a sell-out crowd at the Aviva International Match on Saturday 28 January. [Read more…]
Freya Murray
Four Scottish endurance athletes head for Kenya after this weekend with London 2012 looming on the horizon.
Specialised altitude training in Africa will be perfect for the likes of Olympic hopeful Steph Twell, while Freya Murray will use this opportunity as preparation for her first marathon in London this spring. [Read more…]
Mo Farah for Kelvin Hall
World and European 5000m champion Mo Farah will count on the backing of the Glasgow faithful when he launches his 2012 track campaign before a packed crowd at Kelvin Hall next month. [Read more…]
Murray returns to Cross
A large number of Scottish athletes travelled to Liverpool for the second race in this winter’s McCain Cross Country Challenge, with the race taking place at the city’s Sefton Park on Saturday 26 November. The Under 20 and Senior events also served as GB selection races for European Cross Country in Slovenia in two weeks time, as well as selection for the UK representatives for the European Clubs Cross Country in February. [Read more…]
Over 40 Scots had entered the first of this year’s BMC Grand Prix meetings in Manchester’s Sports City on Saturday night. Despite the cold and breezy weather there were more than 16 Personal Bests by the Scottish contingent as well as several individual race victories and two performances inside the European U23 Qualifying guidelines. [Read more…]
Scottish Athletics Hammer development Group
Scottish Hammer Development Group
The exploits of Kimberley Reed and Myra Perkins have already been reported upon. However, to recapitulate:
• Sixteen year old Kimberley Reed (Edinburgh AC) qualified for the World Youth Championships with a throw of 53.63 metres. This mark also exceeds the Scottish U17 female age group record. Her series:- 51.42m: 52.88m: 52.04m: 53.63m: 50.38m: 51.36. The World Youth Championships are to be held in Lille, France in July.
• Nineteen year old Myra Perkins (Falkirk) qualified for the European Junior Championships to be held in Tallin, Estonia, in July with a throw of 57.87 metres. [Read more…]
Scottish National Cross Country Championship winners, Derek Hawkins (Kilbarachan AC) and Ross Matheson (Lasswade) have been selected for senior and U20 categories respectively in a 24-strong Aviva GB&NI team for the 39th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria , Spain on Sunday 20 March 2011.
Hawkins selected for GB&NI Team
21 year old Hawkins who was credible 6th in the trial race at the Birmingham Inter Counties Championships at the weekend will be looking to build on this break-through season which started with him representing UK at the European U23 Championships in December and has continued with impressive runs in Edinburgh ; Antrim and Dublin since the turn of the year. [Read more…]
Lee McConnell (Shaftesbury) took silver as part of the GB 4x400m team at the European Indoor Championships in Paris.
Lee McConnell
The team of Kelly Sotherton, Marilyn Okoro, Lee McConnell and Jenny Meadows recorded a time of 3.31.36 to take silver behind Russia with France taking the bronze.
Having won European indoor bronze in both 2005 and 2007, going one better in Paris adds to McConnell’s already impressive medal tally both indoors and out. It was a successful championships for the GB team, placing 4th in the medal table behind Russia, France and Germany.
Great Britain won 8 medals accross the three days of competition; silver for both men’s and women’s 4x400m teams, Dwain Chambers in the 60m, Jenny Meadows in the 800m and Tiffany Ofili in the 60m hurdles; bronze for Richard Buck in the 400m and fantastic golds for Mo Farah and Helen Clitheroe in the 3000m. The French team rose to the occassion of being host nation and it’s to be hoped the same effect will be evident at both London 2012 and Glasgow 2014.
Congratulations to all GB athletes who competed in Paris! source SAF
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