Edinburgh Athletic Club

UK National Final Young Athletics League,  Sports City, Manchester, 5th September 2010

 
Our young athletes had a superb end to the 2010 season with 3^rd place in the UK final of the Young Athletes League – the best ever by a Scottish team.
The conditions were reasonable – dry and warm but rather breezy, mainly behind the sprinters.

64 medals were won – 14 Gold, 25 Silver and 25 Bronze (2009 – total of 58, 27 G, 20 S and 11 B) and there were 57 personal best performances.

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See below for EAC Results Update for Hawick 10k, Meadows 5k, Glasgow 10k and Glasgow 1/2 Marathon… (more…)

Sainsburys UK School Games, Gateshead, September 2010

Several of our athletes were selected to represent team Glasgow in the prestigious UK School Games:

100m     6th Kieran Kivlin   11.50
200m     1st Tom Holligan    22.09 
400m     3rd Jay Younger     49.01
100mH  6th Cameron Goodall 13.88

1500m     8th  Louisa Stewart     4:53.21
Javelin     4th  Paula Gass              38.51
Hammer  2nd  Kimberley Reed   50.41

Full results are here:
http://www.ukschoolgames.com/2010/results/athletics/event034h01.html

England Under 15/17 Championships – Bedford, 21 – 22 August
 
Congratulations to all our athletes who competed in the English U15/17 championships at the weekend – they all performed magnificently!
There were 2 Golds, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze (nearly half of the Scottish total) and load of personal bests.
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Scottish U15 & U17 Championships 14/15 August  -  Scotstoun, Glasgow
        
Club athletes won a total of  19 medals at the Scottish U15/17 championships – 5 Gold, 9 Silver and 5 Bronze. Top performer was Tom Holligan, winning the U17 100m and 200m; other double medalists were Ben Robbins (1st 400m and 2nd Discus U15), Kirsty McKean (2nd U15 200m and Long Jump) and Kimberley Reed (2nd Hammer and 3rd Discus U17).
(Keith Ridley)
 
Edinburgh AC  Medallists 
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Scottish Men’s League – Wishaw, 8 August 2010
 
Despite having a depleted team of only 12 athletes there were some excellent performances and the club finished 3rd on the day to consolidate 3rd position overall in the league with one match to go.
Greg Turnbull had 2 second places in the 100m and 200m – just missing out on PBs against the wind  -  and then running a 49.8 leg of the 4 x 400m relay. Our new thrower from the United States, Derek Kasselstrand, picked up useful points with second place in the Shot and Discus.
At the end of the day every point counted as we finished in 3rd place just one point ahead of Pitreavie.
(Keith Ridley)

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Celtic Games – Athlone, Ireland – 7 August 2010
 
Congratulations to all our young athletes who competed for Scotland at the Celtic Games international in Ireland.
The Scottish team finished 2nd overall against teams from Wales, Ireland and Ulster. The U16 Boys team were particularly successful, coming out on top in a close contest.
(Keith Ridley)

Our athletes who represented Scotland were:
Tom Holligan – U18 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m
Jay Younger – U18 400m, 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m
Louisa Stewart – U18 1500m
Faye Nicholson – U18 Long Jump
Paula Gass – U18 Javelin
Kieran Kivlin – U16 100m and 4 x 100m
Naomi Symonds – U16 Shot
 
Full results are available on: http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/celtic-short.pdf

Having greatly enjoyed my first hill race at North Berwick last week, I was looking forward to my first “proper” hill race at Caerketton last night. By that I mean a race entirely on a hill with not a road in sight. I was also looking forward to trying out my brand new Innov-8 mudclaws!! The Caerketton course starts at the Hillend ski slope in Edinburgh and climbs 800 feet over 0.75 miles, before a steep descent back down. So 1.5 miles in total.   (more…)

A few EAC runners headed over to Fife for the Pitreavie AC organised Forth Road Bridge 10k on Sunday 8th Aug, see below for race write-ups and  results:-

Race Report by Kirk Ollason:-

I had been wanting to do this race for a few years but it fills up really quickly and you have to be on the ball to get your entry in. Fortunately, Garry gave us all a prompt this year and a few of us managed to claim some of the final places. (more…)