After the second indoor league match at the Kelvin Hall on Sunday (20th Feb), the club have three teams who have qualified for the final match on Sunday 13th March.
The U15 Boys, U17 Girls and U20 Men are the teams who have made the finals.
Well done to everyone in the teams who have qualified, and also to the athletes who competed in the other teams who haven't made the finals this time. There have been some excellent performances and PBs achieved throughout all the age groups.
Guy Learmonth collected the bronze medal in the 800 metres final at the Aviva UK Indoor Athletics Championships and European trials at Sheffield at the weekend.
Guy clocked 1 min 49.34secs, taking .28 sec off his best to set his seventh Scottish Under-20 Indoor record for the distance in two seasons.
Following on from Gareth Fleming's bronze medal on Saturday, Ellen Kristoffersen also collected the bronze medal in the U17 Girls' Scottish Multi Events at the Kelvin Hall on Sunday. Like Gareth, Ellen also enjoyed a successful Schools Championships on Thursday, and also represented Scotland at the Combined Events International Championships the previous weekend.
The club's U13 Girls' team finished 3rd in their heat and 7th overall in today's Scottish 4 x 200m Relay Championships at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. The team, Rachel Hutchison, Beth Murray, Lisa Robertson and Rachel Louden clocked a time of 2:09.25, missing out on qualification for the final by half a second.
Well done to the girls for a good performance.
Lasswade athletes recorded some impressive performances at the Scottish Schools’ Championships at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, on Thursday (10 Feb). Four medals were collected and there were some excellent PB performances. The medal winners were Ellen Kristoffersen, gold in the U 16 Girls’ High Jump, and silver in the Pole Vault, Rachel Robertson, gold in the U16 Girls' Long Jump, and Katie Purves, bronze in the U16 Girls' 60m Hurdles.
The club’s athletes results are listed below. Apologies if I have missed anyone – it is difficult when the athletes are representing many different schools. If anyone has any corrections let me know and I’ll amend the report.
U16 Girls
Ellen Kristoffersen – High Jump – 1st (1.63m) PB, Pole Vault – 2nd (2.80m) PB, 60m Hurdles – Semi-final (9.87s) PB
Rachel Robertson – Long Jump – 1st (5.16m) PB, 60m – Semi-final (8.50s) PB
Katie Purves – 60m Hurdles – 3rd (9.53s)
Erin Feeley – Shot Putt – 6th (8.90m) PB, High Jump – 14th (1.40m)
Fiona Matheson – 800m – 2:36.9
Amy Frankland – 1500m – 5:23.6
O16 Girls
Sophie Elder – 300m – Semi-final (43.9s)
U16 Boys
Gareth Fleming – Pole Vault – 4th (2.60m) PB, High Jump – 9th (1.55m) PB, 60m Hurdles (10.66s)
Ross Henderson – 400m (62.0s)
O16 Boys
Jordan Charters – 200m Semi-final (24.6s), 60m (7.58s)
Michael Blackley – 200m (25.6s)
Results for Lasswade athletes from the International match at Cardiff on Sunday 30th January.
Ross Matheson – U20 Men 1500m – 1st (3:54.36)
Greg Louden – U20 Men 400m – 2nd (49.89s), Medley Relay – 3rd (3:09.32)
Guy Learmonth – Senior Men 800m – 2nd (1:49.62)
From Scottish Athletics website:
Highlight of the day came from Guy Learmonth, breaking his own Scottish Under-20 record, finishing second in the 800m in 1:49.62, behind Commonwealth athlete Joe Thomas.
Congratulations and good luck to Lasswade athletes Guy Learmonth, Greg Louden and Ross Matheson who have been selected to represent Scotland at today’s (Sunday 30 January) Celtic International at Cardiff Indoor Arena.
Results will be posted on the website later today.
CLOSING DATE REMINDER
The East District Cross Country Championships took place at Livingston on Saturday. This incorporated the final East District League Match. This season the East District League matches have been well supported by Lasswade athletes although there are a few gaps in some of the age groups where we had no runners or incomplete teams. There were twenty two Lasswade runners taking part in yesterdays event.
Most of the snow had thawed although there were some patches of ice on the course. It was raining for most of the day which helped to make the course even muddier !!
The highest placing Lasswade athlete was Ross Matheson who finished an impressive 4th overall in the mens race (second u20). Ross and Andrew Crichton were together for most of the three lap race with Andrew Crichton only managing to get away on the final lap, finishing eight seconds ahead of Ross.
Congratulations to the mens team (all age groups) who finished a creditable 4th in the League. Well done to the girls too who finished 18th team overall.
For full results click here
The fixture list for the 2011 track is now available for making notes in your diaries. Click here for the fixture list
