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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…]
Loughborough International
Selection for the Loughborough International will be made by a Selection Committee which will consist of an Independent Chairman, Head Coach, National Event Coaching Representative, Two representatives from Track and Field Commission (one of which must sit on the Commission) and the scottishathletics Statistician. Those with votes are the Head Coach and a representative from Track and Field, and then the Chairman has the casting vote. [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 athletes were in action both at home and abroad this weekend and recorded some outstanding performances.
Lee Matheson
Ross Matheson (Lasswade), on his GB debut at the World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain, handled the pressure well to place 53rd in the junior men’s race, coming home 2nd scorer for the GB team that finished 10th. In the senior men’s race Derek Hawkins (Kilbarchan) was in action and placed 91st, the 6th GB athlete across the line. The GB senior men placed 15th. [Read more…]
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