Two of the club’s athletes Robert Ferguson and Ellen Kristoffersen travelled down to Sheffield today as part of the Scottish team for the UK School Games. Robert has been selected for the High Jump with Ellen competing in the Long Jump.
Good luck and best wishes from everyone at the 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.
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Congratulations to both Ellen Kristoffersen and Gareth Fleming who are both the 2011 National U16 Pentathlon Champions. Ellen was disappointed with her first couple of events however she eventually won with a score of 2902.
Gareth was the only U16 Boy entered for the competition and competed along side the U16 Girls as a guest with a final score of 2150. At the end of the day Gareth was rightly awarded the gold medal for his efforts.
The club also had U16 Girls and U18 Girls in action in the 3 x 800m Championships. The U16 Girls team (Katie Purves, Sophie Miller and Sally Redpath) finished 6th (8:11.24) and the U18 Girls (Amy Smith, Fiona Matheson and Amy Frankland) finished 2nd (7:32.22) but were non counters as the team was made up of one U16 and two U18s.
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
2011-2012 Cross Country Dates and venues
1 Sat 8th Oct East Relays Venue: Dundee
2 Sat 15th Oct 1st East League Meeing Venue: {Stirling Uni}
3 Sat 22nd Oct National Relay ChampsVenue: {Cumbernauld}
4 Sat 5th Nov National 4K Venue: {Bellahouston}
4A Sun 6th Nov Lasswade AC Open Cross Country Venue Gore Glen Gorebridge
5 Sun 20th Nov 2nd East League meeting Venue: { Livingston }
6 Sat 10th Dec East CC Championships Venue: {Aberdeen}
7 Sat 14th Jan 2012 3rd East League Meeting Venue: {Broxburn}
8 Sat 18th Feb 2012 National CC Championships Venue:Callander Park Falkirk
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.
Congratulations and good luck to Ellen Kristoffersen (High Jump) and Katie Purves (80mH and 4 x 100 relay) who have been selected to represent Scotland at this weekend's Celtic Games in Antrim.
