Track and Field report for July
Track and Field July
5th July: Jake Wightman on his comeback from injury improves his PB in the 1 mile at the Eugene Diamond League, with a time of 3:47.82
5th-6th July: Scottish Masters Championships: a very successful Championships for the Club with 10 entries and 13 medals (9 Golds)
5th-6th July: Scottish Combined Events: 2 competitors and 2 Bronze medals, well done to Olivia Carah (Senior Women) and Hugh Ross (U13 Boy)
6th July: National Athletics League: Glasgow Jaguars claimed a fine fourth place finish at Derby in Match Two of the Premier Division of the National Athletics League.
It was an outcome which seemed unlikely the day before when delayed travel south caused no little stress.
Even late in the programme on Saturday, every point was vital with a number of clubs contesting positions below match winners Harrow and second placed Thames Valley Harriers.
13th July: Omar Bajo competed in the Stratford Speed event. Omar came away with 2 PB's in the 200m with a time of 22.21, this places Omer 7th Overall in the Scottish U20 All time Rankings and another PB in the 400m with 48.56
18th July: Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman compete in the 1500m in the Diamond Athletics league in London Josh finishes 2nd with Jake 4th, also competing in a Scottish 4 x 100m Relay Team was Allan Hamilton.
Bradley Francis lined up in the National 400m Hurdles and took sixth place with a run of 51.55 seconds
19th July: Scottish Athletics Throws GP, some notable performances were,
Testimony Sotannde (U13) threw 22.80m in the Javelin and his sister Adora (U18) had a throw of 20.99m in the Hammer.
Jacob McKinlay (U20) 41.88m Discus and 13.06m Shot Put
In the Seniors, Alice Baxendale threw 40.53m in the Discus and Lucy Davison threw 11.09m in the Shot Put, Lucy also competed in the Triple Jump with a jump of 11.11m,
Also competing in the Triple Jump was Matilda Brockley (U20)who jumped 12.11m
26th-27th July: English AA Championships Gold for,
Bera Ajala (Triple Jump)
Matilda Brockley (U20 Triple Jump)
Callum Newby (Decathlon)
also competing, Izzy McHattie (Javelin) and Jessica Taylor (U20 5000m)
27th July Scottish National Athletics League, the 4th and final match in the League, Edinburgh were placed 3rd with a final Leage position of 3rd