Ken Ballantyne was a very talented and elegant runner who had a remarkable track career as well as being a top quality road and cross-country man. 

Woodrow, a 34-year old psychology researcher and qualified athletics coach, originally from Fife, long-time resident of Edinburgh, and now based in the Borders, was making her debut at the 100km distance, and representing Scotland for the first time.

Peter R.W. Hoffman was one of the country’s fastest ever 400m/800m runners who had a very short career at the top of the sport in Scotland.

Scotland’s Allister Hutton was a nearly man until he came through thick mist and rain like a Highland warrior from a damp Scottish moor, to win the 10th London marathon. Leading from 14 miles, the 35 year old pushed his body to the limit, to win the world’s greatest city marathon.

Ian Horsburgh was Scottish 200 metres Champion in 2005 having come through the age-groups with an under 17 400m title in 1994 and Indoor titles at U17 400m in the same year and U20 200m in 1996.

By any standards Tom Hanlon was a phenomenal athlete, starting with the Euro Junior Championships in 1985, he became a Scottish and British Internationalist, Olympic athlete, European Championships athlete, World Championship athlete twice, twice a Commonwealth Games representative plus World cross-country runner as a Junior and a GB road runner.

Paul Forbes is a name not well known among the young athletes and their coaches of the twenty first century – but it really should be. Look at the Scottish all-time rankings for his best distance, the 800m:

Kathryn Evans was a 6-times Scottish champion and represented Scotland at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She was also a winner of the 2009 Gladiators series.

Carey Easton/Pegrum was a 6-time Scottish senior champion at 400 metres between 1997 and 2007 and represented Scotland in the 400 metres at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Sinead Dudgeon/Walker was a star of Scottish athletics, competing at World, Olympics and European Championships and representing Scotland at the 2002 Commonwealths, finishing 6th in the 400m hurdles and 4th in the 4x400m relay.

Winner of 5 100m Scottish titles, 2 at 200m and 4 indoor 60m titles and 3 indoor 200 titles, Susan was the outstanding Scottish sprinter at the beginning of this century.

Allison Curbishley specialised in the 400m.
AAA U17 Junior Champion 300mH, AAA U20 Champion 400m and Scottish Champion 400m.

Gillian Cooke has had an astonishing sports career, from athletics to bobsleigh. In athletics, she represented Scotland at two Commonwealth Games, at pole vault then long jump.

Sara Whigham/ Jarrett was a 3 times Scottish champion, winning the indoor 60 metres and 200 metres in 2004, the 100m in 2005, and she medalled on 9 other occasions.

Adrian, a member of Octavians AC, Edinburgh AC and Polytechnic Harriers, was a top-class runner and sub-4 miler. Best remembered on the track as a 1500 metres runner, he won the Scottish indoor title in 1973 and 1976 before becoming National Outdoor Champion in 1979.

Allan Wells was born on the 3rd May 1953. He lived at Fernieside Crescent on the south side of Edinburgh, a few doors along from long term friend Chris Black, who went on to win 9 Scottish Hammer titles and represent Great Britain at two Olympics.

As a schoolgirl at Bearsden Academy, the 15-year-old Moira Walls set a Scottish national high jump record of 5 foot 4 inches (1.63 metres) in 1967. 18 years later, she retired with a Scottish record of 1.87 metres after a career that saw her lift 9 Scottish titles at high jump, hurdles, long jump and pentathlon, gain 19 British internationals and a Commonwealth bronze medal.

David Stevenson CBE DL competed for Great Britain in the Pole Vault at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where he cleared three heights with no fails but could not achieve the qualifying mark for the final.

Margaret “Meg” Elizabeth Stone, née Ritchie, born 6 July 1952 in Kirkaldy. A Discus and Shot Putter, she reached the Olympic finals at discus in Moscow 1980 (9th) and Los Angeles 1984 (5th). She also won the 1982 Commonwealth Games Title.