Thanks to Esther Watson for writing this report on her experience with the Edinburgh team to Lithuania. International Childrens Games, Kaunus, Lituania. July 2017 This month, the City of Edinburgh city took 10 athletes in total, 8 for Athletics and 2 beach volleyballers to Lithuania for the International Children’s Games 2017. We were accompanied by Bill…
Well done to Alisha Rees, (second left) who was a member of the Team GB 4x400m relay team which won Bronze at the European Junior Games. Holly McArthur also contributed to relay team, getting them through to the Finals, by running in the heats of the 4x400m FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin ItEmail
Holly McArthur competing in the European Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy attained a new Scottish U20 Heptathlon Record with a points total of 5687, which also takes her above the qualifying Standard for the Commonwealth Games. Holly achieved 7 personal best performances in all seven events and she is still eligible to compete in the…
Along with the Masters, the Scottish Age group Combined events champs also took place over the two days at Grangemouth at the weekend. Medal winning performances came from: U20 men Decathlon Gold Howard Bell 6417 points (SB) SB or PB- 100m 11.63 (SB), 1500m 5:21.93 (SB), 110H 15.14 (SB), LJ 6.81m (SB), SP 11.71m (PB), JAV…
Eight Edinburgh teenagers – four boys and four girls – will travel to Lithuania next week to represent their city at the 51st International Children’s Games in Kaunas. All eight are members of Edinburgh Athletic Club, and they will be accompanied by their veteran head coach Bill Walker and Active Schools Coordinator Lee Goodfellow of…
The results from the Forth valley League Final are now available. Our Division1 team were second in the Match and finished second equal in the league and won the trophy for best Field Team. Our Div 3 team were also second placed in this match but won the league and promotion to Div 2. Please…
The 3rd match of the YDL upper age group took place in York on Sunday and it was a second place finish behind Kingdom on this occasion. There were some excellent individual performances and a number of PBs and SBs. The team now goes forward to the Regional Final on the 23rd July in Sheffield…
Photos of Edinburgh AC athletes at the Scottish Schools Championships taken by Bobby Gavin are now in our Gallery page. The full set of Bobby Gavin’s photos can be seen in the Scottish Athletics Facebook page. FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin ItEmail
The Final match timetable of Forth Valley League 2017 at Grangemouth Saturday 24th June. HERE Please be at Grangemouth 1 hour before your first event and be aware that the Royal Highland Show is on and delays can be expected. FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pin ItEmail