Athletics
Athletics: Young Scots impress in English medal haul
SCOTTISH athletes headed home – or back into training – yesterday following a remarkable weekend haul at the England Athletics Under-23 and Under-20 Championships.
Athletics: McAslan takes under-23 gold
ON A weekend when Capital athletes seemed stuck on silver, Scottish 400 metres champion Kirsten McAslan, whose family hail from Edinburgh, made a big claim for inclusion in the Great Britain 4 x 400m team for the European Team Championships at Gateshead next weekend by striking gold in the AAA Under-23 Championships at Bedford.
Commonwealth Games: Scotland’s high jumpers primed
EVERY sport has its sweet spot, that moment of perfection, when it all clicks, and the parts – mechanical and mental – come together.
Lynsey Sharp: ‘I’d love Diamond League at Hampden’
MY SPRING schedule was disrupted by the chest infection I picked up in America, but since then training has been going well.
Meggetland hosts Edinburgh Running Festival
THE first City of Edinburgh Running Festival, will take place on a diagonal grass track at Boroughmuir Rugby Football ground at Meggetland on Friday July 5 and, if ambition has anything to do with it, it is certain to be a success.
Jack Lawrie wins Eric Liddell Memorial Trophy
Pitreavie’s Jack Lawrie, a pupil at Beath High who is advised by Eilidh Child’s former coach Norman Gardiner, was a worthy winner of the Eric Liddell Memorial Trophy for the best boys’ performance at the Scottish Schools Championships at Grangemouth Stadium.
Usain Bolt faces world 100m qualifying
Usain Bolt will have to qualify for the 100 metres at this year’s world championships after Jamaican officials decided the country’s automatic entry into the race should go to his training partner Yohan Blake.
Eilidh Child has grown to be a real contender
FASTER. Fitter, Tougher. Eilidh Child is in the best shape she has ever been at this early stage of the season and expects that to be reflected in more personal best times for the 400-metres hurdles over the coming weeks.
Eilish McColgan urges athletes to be inspired by 2014
OLYMPIAN Eilish McColgan has urged young athletes across Scotland to be inspired by the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and pursue their sporting ambitions to the limit.
Jessica Ennis-Hill to skip league meet in Oslo
Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill has pulled out of this Thursday’s Diamond League meet in Oslo as she continues her recovery from an Achilles injury.
Athletics: Jayne Nisbet hits the heights
High jumper Jayne Nisbet staked a strong claim for selection in the British team for the European Cup Team Championships on June 22 and 23 when she won her event for hosts Edinburgh AC in the UK Women’s League match at Meadowbank with a leap of 1.85 metres.
Eilidh Child sets sight on 4x400
EILIDH Child believes there is still room for improvement despite slicing more than six-hundredths of a second off her 400 metres personal best in the Netherlands.
Meadowbank: Crowds flock despite Ennis absence
THE absence of Jessica Ennis-Hill robbed Meadowbank of its scheduled main attraction on Saturday but the prospect of watching the Olympic champion in action had, at least, generated enough advance ticket sales to ensure the UK Women’s League would have one of its biggest attendances in years.
Bobsleigh champ Cooke back to long jump for 2014
FORMER bobsleigh world champion Gillian Cooke returns to her original discipline this afternoon when she competes in the long jump in the Premier Division club fixture at Meadowbank.
Lachie Stewart on his 1970 Commonwealth Games win
SO TELL me, I’ll ask the 29-year-old actress (they’re always, anxiously 29), what do you do when you’re not acting – do you have what we used to call a hobby? Oh yes, they go to the cinema, the theatre too.
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Diamond League: Justin Gatlin guns down Usain Bolt
USAIN Bolt suffered a rare defeat in Rome last night as Justin Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic champion, pipped him by a hundredth of a second at the IAAF Diamond League meeting at the Olympic Stadium.
Jessica Ennis vows to return after Meadowbank miss
Olympic golden girl Jess Ennis has pledged to return to Edinburgh in future after withdrawing from Saturday’s Women’s Athletic League meeting at Meadowbank, citing a stiff left Achilles tendon.
Capital high-jumping pair relish Meadowbank duel
Despite the disappointing news that the London 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion Jess Ennis has been forced to withdraw due to a stiff Achilles tendon, there will still be a quality line-up for the UK Women’s League Premier Division meeting at Meadowbank on Saturday.
Jessica Ennis pulls out of event in Edinburgh
Jessica Ennis-Hill has pulled out of Saturday’s British Women’s League meeting in Edinburgh due to an Achilles problem.
1 commentHolmes’ grit will inspire Meadows
Former world 800 metres bronze medallist Jenny Meadows believes she can emulate Kelly Holmes’ “fairytale ending” after a stress fracture ruled her out of August’s World Championships in Moscow.
Lynsey Sharp’s gold as Arzhakova disqualified
Great Britain’s Lynsey Sharp is officially a European champion after the 800m silver medal she won in Helsinki last year was formally upgraded to a gold.
Chandler shines for pentathlon team
ATHLETICS: Tom Chandler (Balfron High School) helped Scotland win a silver medal at this season’s indoor Schools’ International Pentathlon Championships and he proved he is the best Scot in his age-group outdoors with victory in the Scottish Secondary Schools’ Pentathlon Championships at Grangemouth.
Eilidh Child sets new record over hurdles
Eilidh Child beat her own Scottish national record and secured the World Championship qualifying standard in winning the 400 metres hurdles in 54.93 seconds at the Athletica Invitation meeting in Geneva on Saturday night.
Joy for Justin Gatlin but Mo Farah loses out
JUSTIN Gatlin turned back the clock with a victory in the 100 metres at the Prefontaine Classic, while Mo Farah failed to claim victory in his first Diamond League outing of the year as the double Olympic champion took second place in the 5,000m in Eugene, Oregon.
Commonwealth Games 2014: Eilidh Child sets tone
VERSATILE Eilidh Child tore up the Scottish record books over 400 metres earlier in 2013 – and now she’s at it again over hurdles.
McConnell fury at leniency for US drug cheats
LEE McConnell yesterday accused the body in charge of world athletics of being soft on drugs and described their decision to allow the US relay team to keep their gold medals from the 2004 Athens Olympics as “disgusting”.
Jessica Ennis-Hill returns to track at Meadowbank
EVEN for the poster girl of London 2012, the Olympic Games are so last year.
1 commentAthletics: Time running short for 2014 hopefuls
DEVELOPING Scottish athletes hoping to come through next year and claim their places in the team for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games are in for a shock.
Sergei Bubka enters IOC presidential race
Pole vault great Sergei Bubka of Ukraine entered the crowded IOC presidential race yesterday, citing his youthful energy and experience as an Olympic champion as key ingredients in his bid for the top job.
Athletics: ‘Tired’ Twell second in London 10k
STEPH Twell underlined her return to fitness and form by finishing second in the Bupa London 10,000 metres yesterday.
Tola Lema wins elite race at Edinburgh Marathon
Tola Lema cruised to a comfortable victory in the Edinburgh Marathon as the visiting African contingent dominated the 11th edition of the capital race. With almost 15000 shrugging off the sunshine to complete the 26-mile loop from the city centre to Musselburgh, the Ethiopian led the field home in two hours, 15 minutes and 32 seconds.
Eilidh Child third in Manchester Citygames event
Eilidh Child came off second best in her first meeting of the summer with rival Perri Shakes-Drayton at the BT Great Citygames in Manchester.
Edinburgh Marathon: Thomas hoping to go distance
IT’S not the losing that gets you down, Iwan Thomas admits. It’s hearing about it.
Cycling: Funding boost for Edinburgh’s Finlay Young video
EDINBURGH cyclist Finlay Young has been tipped to become a future British Olympian after receiving funding as part of the Bank of Scotland Local Heroes initiative.
Lee McConnell to miss year to have a baby
London Olympic semi-finalist Lee McConnell has announced she will not compete this year as she is expecting her first child with husband Craig Bonthron in early November.
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Glasgow 2014: 1000 youth volunteer roles revealed
ONE thousand training and volunteering places are to be made available to young jobless Scots as part of a Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games legacy scheme, Alex Salmond announced today.
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Jessica Ennis to begin her season in Edinburgh
Olympic gold medallist Jessica Ennis has confirmed that she will open her 2013 season at Meadowbank in the UK Women’s Athletic League Premier Division next month.
1 commentMcColgan is happy with standards for Games places
Eilish McColgan believes Commonwealth Games standards which are “fair” are driving Scotland’s track and field stars to Hampden.
Throwers’ best tribute is to raise standard
On a difficult, emotional day, Capital hammer-throwers Susan McKelvie and Andy Frost led a procession of Scots to achieve Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games qualifying standards in the annual Loughborough International in the East Midlands yesterday.
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Wednesday 19 June 2013
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