Edinburgh Athletic Club

Musselburgh 10K – a buffet worth finishing for

By Richard Meade

The lure of winning wine from Garry has not inspired me to write this race report, besides I think I am a day early!! No Garry sent me intimidating emails and threatened to kidnap my dog if I didn’t! So here is a race report from last week’s Musselburgh 10k. (more…)

I’ve noticed that since I’ve twanged my hamstring, there have been far fewer race reports appearing on the site. Now, I know there may be a debate about whether a tree falling in a forest makes a noise when no one is there, BUT I’m pretty sure that if I’m not at a race, the race still happens……

Come on everyone, the only way we can all keep up to date with results, team prizes and get updates to find out how everyone is getting on, is for you ALL to contribute race reports. It doesn’t need to be anything elaborate, a brief paragraph with EAC results would be great, if you want to expand on it and mention how the race was for you and add any other comments you may have, then fantastic.  We need some fresh views and reports, everyone seems to like reading them and they bring everyone together that bit more.

To try and encourage you all to send in a race report or two, I am going to put up a prize for the best race report submitted during August. The prize will be a bottle of the finest red/white (winner can choose) or I could even substitute the wine for a few bottles of beer if you don’t want wine. Can I be fairer than that! (more…)

Aviva London Grand Prix on Saturday 25th July.

Freya Murray raced to a lifetime best performance and Commonwealth Games qualifying time of 15:32.39 when finishing sixth in a high class 5000m field at the Aviva London Grand Prix on Saturday (25th July).
 Freya who has also recorded PB’s over 3000m and 10k in 2009 – was delighted to have secured the Commonwealth Games standard in a quality race won by Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba (14:33.65) and will be hoping for an opportunity to better that at the Aviva British Grand Prix in Gateshead on Bank Holiday Monday 31st August.
(Scottish Athletics)

26 July 2009  -   National Junior League, Gateshead

3rd place in the final match meant that Team Edinburgh are runners up in the Northern Premier division  of the National Junior League and qualify for a place in the UK final in September. Gregor Maclean was awarded male athlete of the match for his 4.65m pb in the pole vault and Sarah Warnock won the female athlete of the match award for her 5.81m pb in the long jump. Our top points scorer was Hannah Evenden with 3 ‘A’ string wins (Hammer, shot and discus) and 1 ‘B’ string win (Javelin).
(Keith Ridley)
Edinburgh Athletes results are here:
NJL 26-07-09
Full results available on:
www.nationaljuniorathleticleague.co.uk

Celtic Games – Camarthen, 1 August 2009
Congratulations to the following athletes who have been picked to represent Scotland at the Celtic Games in Camarthen:
 
U18 Boys
Allan Hamilton: Long Jump and 4 x 100m
U18 Girls
Hope Robertson:  100m, 200m and 4 x 100m
Laurie McKenna: Long Jump and Triple Jump
Nicky McMurtrie :Discus
Amy Rogers:  4 x 100m
Fiona Cleat:  4 x 300m
Emily Dudgeon: 4 x 300m
U16 Boys
Tom Holligan:  100m and 4 x 100m

Aviva World Trials and UK Championships – 10 -12 July, Birmingham
 
Congratulations to Freya Murray on winning the 5000m at the UK Championships in a time of 15m 45.07s, less than a second outside her best. In the Long Jump Lisa Ferguson set a PB of 6.11m, finishing in 6th place.
Full results on:
http://www.uka.org.uk/results/20090710_Birmingham/

European U23 Championships -  Lithuania
 
Steve Lisgo finished 5th in the 3000m Steeplechase in a time of 8m 45.77 and Pat Swan ran in the heats of the  4 x 400m relay, qualifying for the final.
Full results on:
http://www.sportresult.com/sports/la/framework/eaa2.asp?module=timetable_date&event_id=10000300000007&lang=en

Scottish Combined Events Championships – 19 July, Grangemouth
 
Congratulations to our 3 Gold Medallists at the Scottish Combined Events championships.
Emma Lowry won the U20 Heptathlon with 3201 points.
Katie Robertson won the U13 pentathlon with 2110 points.
Natalie Robbins won the U11 Triathlon with 720 points.
Full results available on:
http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/index.php?p=80&itemType=fixtures&itemId=9957

Scottish Junior 3000m Championships – 19 July, GrangemouthChris O’Hare convincingly won the Scottish U20 3000m championship in a new personal best of 8m 29.80s, almost 8 seconds ahead of the next athlete. Andrew Crichton was 7th in 9m 02.16s.
In the U17 age group Jake Wightman was 5th in 9m 48.28s and Edward Dudgeon 6th in 9m 56.53s.
Full results on:
http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/index.php?p=80&itemType=fixtures&itemId=9962

  Scottish Men’s League, Meadowbank, 12 July 2008 
   
 Third place with a team weakened by holidays and illness was a very good result; and due to the positions of the other teams in the match we have increased our lead in the league to 4 points with just one match to go. It was the Under 17s who came to the rescue of the senior men on the track – with personal bests for Calvin Girvan (100m and 200m), Peter Loudon (800m) and Edward Dudgeon (1500m). We picked up good points in the field with a double first for Willie Falconer (Shot and Discus) and wins for Garry McKay (Long Jump) and Simon Herron (High Jump). In the relays there was a good win for the 4 x 100 team (with 2 U17s) and a third place for the 4 x 400 (with 3 U17s).
The last match is on 30 August at Grangemouth  -  with a good team we should have a great chance of winning the 2009 Scottish League.

 Provisional results for our athletes are here:
Scottish Mens League match3
and full results should soon be available on:
www.scottishleague.org.uk