Edinburgh Athletic Club

Congratulations to the Edinburgh Athletes who were competing for the Scottish and the British University teams at the Loughbourgh International

Kathryn Christie 7th 100m 12.27
Kirsty Yates 3rd Shot  15.10m
Susan McKelvie 4th Hammer  62.13m (CWG 2014 Qualifying Standard)
Laura Dunn 7th 3000m 9:58.81
Tom Holligan 7th 100m 10.85
Jayne Nisbet 1st High Jump 1.84m (Guest) (CWG 2014 Qualifying Standard)
Emma Nuttall 3rd High Jump 1.78m
Emily Stewart 2nd 3000m Steeplechase 10:10.83 (BU)

Full results can be found here:   Loughborough International

On Sunday we were targetting the East District 10k championships at Gala and didn’t they do well….. We now have both male and female East District 10k Champions in Bryan Mackie and Sue Ridley (Sue was also 1st Vet), Stuart Johnston picked up senior bronze with Karen Dobbie and James Mittra also picking up prizes. Jamie Crawford was 5th overall to ensure EAC would easily pick up 1st Team.

At the North District 10k, Emma Dunnett was 1st with Oonagh Dunnett 2nd. Graeme Taylor was 4th. Also some good results at non championship events by Jenny Maclean winning the Loch Leven 1/2M and Sarah Benson 2nd in the Glasgow womens 10k.

With so many races in May, Kirk has gone for a mid month update, see below for all EAC results from the first 2 weeks of May :-           (more…)

Congratulations to all the Edinburgh AC athletes who won medals at the BUSC Championships in Bedford.

Emily Stewart won gold, as she took a second off her PB in the 2000m steeplechase with victory in 6.36.45. That’s the third-best of all-time by Emily for the 2000m steeplechase. Jake Wightman, was second in the 1500m in a time of 3.43.74. which is inside the Euro Under-20s qualifying standard.

We had three  bronze medal winners, in the 800m Emily Dudgeon, in the 200m Tom Holligan  with a time of 21.63 and Sarah Warnock in the long jump with another jump over 6:00m with 6.03m.

JSB Plumbing Forth Valley League, Grangemouth 27th April
The results from the first meeting held at Grangemouth are available to download, we were first in both Division I and Division2, thanks to all the officials and parents for helping the meeting run so well, despite lanes 1 and 2 of the track being closed.

Div I match 1
Div II match 1

The April EAC results have now been compiled. If you have been racing and your result is not included on the list, please let us know.   (more…)

Youth Development League (upper age group)  -  Liverpool  28 April 2013
This league is the replacement for the National Junior League and provides competition for U17s and U20s. Team Edinburgh (EAC, Lasswade & Corstorphine) finished clear winners, almost 100 points ahead of Sale Harriers in the Northern Premier Division 1. The conditions were not great with fairly strong wind against the sprinters and rain in latter part of the afternoon. The match result was as follows:

1.        Edinburgh        602.5
2.        Sale Harriers        509
3.        Preston                503
4.        Liverpool        480.5
5.        Glasgow        421.5
6.        Gateshead        418.5

Full results available on       http://www.ukydl.org.uk/Northern%20Prem%201.pdf

Keith Ridley

Scottish Mens League  -  Kilmarnock 20 April 2013
The senior men’s team finished 5th in the first match of Division 1 of the Scottish League. In blustery conditions there were some good performances from the athletes who turned out. We had a large number of gaps in the team otherwise we would have been challenging for  a top 3 place.
Keith Ridley
1.        Kilbarchan        330
2.        Central                320
3.        Falkirk                270
4.        Aberdeen        237
5.        Edinburgh        235
6.        VP Glasgow        200
7.        Lasswade        180
8.        Shettleston        75

Full results are available on     http://www.scottishleague.org.uk/D1M1(2013).pdf

Scottish Womens Athletics League, Meadowbank, Sunday 21st 2013
Edinburgh won the first meeting of the SWAL in a close match with Aberdeen coming second.
The results can be viewed here: Results_match1_SWAL_2013

Listed below are the times of Edinburgh Athletes Competing in the London Marathon:
Adam Rouse 2.30.58
Colin Mcgill 2.32.52
Matt Bell 2.41.42
Stuart Johnstone 2.42.10
Richard Meade 2.46.55
Cat Probert 2.58.46
Jess Young 3.03
Jim Buivk 3.09
Paul Brennan 3.22
Chris Payne 3.29
Mark Horne 3.46
Chris Creegan 3.51
Steve Waterson 4.16

Mini Marathon:
U/15 Josh Kerr 47th 16:23
U/17 Robert Bough 46th 15:36

Photos from the race can be viewed here: http://www.marathonfoto.com/site/viewphotos

Lothian Trials, Meadowbank 7th April 2013
The results from the Lothian Trials can be downloaded here: Lothian Trials 2013
 With almost 400 athletes competing, the meeting ran very smoothly, many thaks to all the officials and helpers.