LASSWADE ATHLETIC CLUB

Following on from the East Region's success in the U16/U18 Inter Regional match on Saturday, the East Region once again collected the trophy at the U20/Senior Match at Wishaw on Sunday.

Lasswade athletes played their part in the victory with some impressive performances.  Greg Louden won the men's 400m (49.67s), and came second in the 200m (22.55s), while Ross Matheson took first place in the1500m (3:59.53).   Scott Anderson finished 4th in the 800m (2:01.86), and Niall Sheehan won the 5000m B race (15:38.14).

Greg and Scott were also part of the winning East 4 x 400m Relay team.

Several of the club’s athletes were part of the winning East Region team in the Inter Regional Match at Wishaw on Saturday.

Highlights of the day were the gold medal winning performances from Rachel Robertson – U16W Long Jump (5.29m), Katie Purves – U16W 80m Hurdles (12.08s), Sophie Elder – U18W 300m (42.15s), and Gareth Fleming – U16M Javelin (41.04m).  Gareth also collected a bronze medal in the U16M Pole Vault (2.80m) and finished 6th in the Shot Putt (10.09m), while Rachel and Katie claimed another first place when they both ran in the winning U16W 4 x 100m relay team (52.08s).

Collecting silver medals were Jordan Charters – U18M High Jump (1.75m), and Katherine Szymanski – U18W Triple Jump (9.93m).  Katherine also finished 2nd B, and 7th overall in the Javelin (20.86m).

Also competing for the team were Amy Smith – U18W 800m, Sophie Collins – U16W 1500m, Jack Learmonth – U18 Triple Jump, Frankie Benham – U18W Javelin, Shot Putt and Discus, Jamie Cousin  – U16M 400m, and Erin Feeley – U16W Hammer and Discus.

The club had two teams in the U14 Superteams competition at Grangemouth Stadium today. Both teams performed well with lots of PBs gained in the various events.

Each athlete had to do each of the three events, and run in the 4 x 100m relay. In the relay, the boys’ team finished second in their heat in a time of 59.99s, with the girls coming home fourth, clocking 59.7s.

The athletes’ results for the 200m, Long Jump and Shot Putt are below:

Ronan Clelland – 32.39s, 3.64m, 4.68m

Aidan Gallagher – 28.89s, 3.83m, 6.43m

Matthew Smith – 31.99s, 3.08m, 4.16m

Fraser Cousin – 29.99s, 3.53m, 7.44m

Rachel Louden – 31.04s, 3.37m, 4.36m

Lisa Robertson – 32.75s, 3.72m, 4.60m

Rachel Hutchison – 31.95s, 3.44m, 4.88m

Bethany Murray – 30.12s, 4.11m, 4.95m

Lasswade athletes Katie Purves and Ellen Kristoffersen were part of the victorious Scotland team at Saturday’s Celtic Games at Antrim.

Katie finished second in her U16G 80m hurdles race (12.16s), and was part of the 4 x 100m mixed relay team which also finished second (46.67s).

Ellen was fourth in the U16G High Jump (1.45m).

Well done to both athletes.

From The Evening News – Friday 12th August 2011

Scots athletes are simply wonderful in Copenhagen

In miserable conditions – continuous rain and cool temperature (14 ⁰C) – Scotland scored two excellent track wins in the Copenhagen Athletics Games in Denmark last night, Guy Learmonth (Lasswade) beating fellow Scot Stuart Ross (Glasgow) to win an 800 metres race in 1:50.15 and Edinburgh-based Jamie Bowie winning his 400m in 47.47.

Both Learmonth and his coach Henry Gray were thoroughly delighted with his performance and the 19-year-old Loughborough-based student will now bring the curtain down on his topsy-turvy outdoor season by helping his club Lasswade in the final Scottish League match which is scheduled to take place at Grangemouth on Sunday.

"I'm in good shape – there was a thunderstorm and a 45-minute delay before we ran and unlike the other race we'd no pacemaker," said Learmonth.