You may have seen reports on the club website and on the scottishathletics website of EAC athletes, competing for Glasgow Jaguars. For many years female athletes in EAC enjoyed the pathway that the UK Womens Athletic League offered to our Senior and U20 women. This has now been replaced by the National Athletic League, which …
The Club Records for the Outdoor Season are updated by Xavier and can be viewed here:https://edinburghac.org.uk/rankings/ One record we failed to pick up on during the summer was the new 3 x 800m senior relay record of 5:50.09 set by, Gavin Cooney, Nathan Brown and Sam Brown at Scotstoun in June FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin ItEmail
How to forge world champions By John Lenehan, Edinburgh AC Wednesday 23rd August 2023, Budapest’s National Athletics Stadium, 9:19pm local time… Edinburgh Athletic Club star Josh Kerr kicks hard on the final bend of the 1500m World Championship final… He draws level with Norwegian superstar and heavy favourite, Jakob Ingebrigtsen… There’s a gold medal and…
European Masters Championships in Pescara Italy Congratulations to Paul Forbes on setting a new M65 World record with a time of 2:13.74 and another Gold medal in the 1500m 4:44.40 Stacey Downie won Silver in the W35 100m in a time of 12.36s, then following it up with a Silver in the 200m 25.25Sharyn Ramage…
It’s official Edinburgh AC are Track, Field and overall Division 1 champions of the Forth Valley League 2023. Well done to all athletes, coaches and families along with Yvonne Jones and her excellent team management. Absolutely fantastic achievement. The Club is back in town !!!Thanks also to Caleb McLeod from Pitreavie AAC who presented the…
Congratulations to Paul Forbes on setting new British Masters Record for M65’s in the 1 mile at the Monument Mile meeting at Stirling UniversityPaul ran 5:08.38 reducing the previous record by over 16 seconds Photo Bobby Gavin FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin ItEmail
A Bronze for Calum Roger in the High Jump with a PB of 1.70m Megan McKay was 4th in her 800m heat 2:16.68 FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin ItEmail
Well done to our athletes competing for Scotland at the U20 International in Cardiff. Omar Bajo 2nd 400m 48.11, Omar was also of the 4x400m mixed Relay with a Scottish best performance of 3:31.00 Rory Brogan (U17) a member of the Scottish Record breaking team, 1st 4x100m 40.69 and 6th 100m 11.29 (Guest) Cameron Forbes…
Congratulations to Josh Kerr World Champion in the 1500m in Budapest. In an exciting race Josh battled with Jakob Ingebrigtsen from 200m out, taking the lead in the last 50m to take the Gold Medal. Josh takes over the mantle of World Champion from fellow Edinburgh AC club member Jake Wightman. Jake was unable to…
Well done to all our Young Athletes competing in the Scottish Age group Championships Gold Medal Callum Roger 1st High Jump 1.74m Bronze Medal Ava Bell 3rd Triple Jump 9.79m Rory Brogan 3rd 100m 10.87 U13 Jess Knox 12th 100m Semi Final 14.14 Rory Logg 5th Shot Put Final 6.15m, 8th 800m Final 2:40.04, 11th…