Club News
Sinead Dudgeon/Walker
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.
Susan Deacon/Burnside
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
Allison Curbishley specialised in the 400m.
AAA U17 Junior Champion 300mH, AAA U20 Champion 400m and Scottish Champion 400m.
Gillian Cooke
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
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 Weatherhead
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
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.
Moira Maguire
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
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.
Meg Ritchie/Stone
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.
Lynsey Sharp
Lynsey Sharp, double Olympian, and former European champion and Commonwealth Games medallist, has taken the decision to retire from competition and focus on “other priorities “ in her life with her son Max and husband Andy Butchart.
Hamish Robertson
Father of Alex Robertson. Hamish ran Edinburgh to Glasgow Relays after the War, with a total of seven (May 1949, November 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955.) He raced stages 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 – and was a member of the team that won bronze in 1953, when he tackled the long 6th Stage.
Catriona Pennet
Since she first appeared as a top 10 ranked hurdler in 2001, Catriona Pennet has been one of Scotland’s top hurdlers.
Lauren Peffers
Lauren Peffers was part of the Scottish athletics scene between 2003 and 2013 having her best year in 2009 when she ranked 6th in the 400 metres and won the first of two silver medals at the indoor 400m.
Hayley Parkinson Ovens
Hayley Parkinson Ovens ran for Scotland at two Commonwealth Games in the 1500 metres finals and for GB in the World indoor championships.
Chris O’Hare
Chris O’Hare, Olympian and three times European Championship Medallist has announced his retirement as a professional athlete.
Jayne Nisbet
Jayne Nisbet won ten Scottish senior High Jump titles and two Triple Jump Championships, evenly split between outdoors and indoors.
Yvonne Murray
One of the great legacies of the 1970 Commonwealth Games was Meadowbank Stadium. The echoes of these Games had barely subsided when Yvonne Murray walked through the revolving doors at the main entrance as a youngster to train and begin a journey that would take her to unimaginable glory.
Freya Murray/Ross
Freya Murray/Ross was twice UK champion at 5000 metres and represented GB in the at the 2012 Olympics.