Published: Thursday, 15th May, 2008 12:30
Dunfermline athletics clubs in Meadowbank medal haul
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Francis Smith in action at Meadowbank
WEST FIFE athletes were in form at the Scottish Senior Closed Championships and East District Junior Championships at Meadowbank at the weekend.
Pitreavie AAC athletes picked up a phenomenal five gold, 11 silvers and eight bronze medals.
First gold won on Saturday was by Jamie Coull, who took the senior men’s 100m in a time of 10.92 seconds.
Next up was Stephanie Walker, who won the senior women’s 100m hurdles with a time of 14.46.
The other golds came on the Sunday with Francis Smith taking the senior men’s 400m hurdles with a time of 53.11, Kirsten Galbraith won the under-15 girls’ 100m in a time of 13.24 and Bethanie Finlayson took the under-15 girls’ 200m title with a time of 27.14.
Dunfermline & West Fife’s Gemma Nicol won the 200m title in 25.18 running into a -3m/s headwind and has now been selected to run for Scotland in the 200m and the 4x400m relay at Loughborough on Sunday in a home international.
Gemma’s clubmate Rory Muir won the under-13 800m in a time of 2:24.75 while his sister, Laura, was third in the under-17s 1500m in 4:50.03.
Anthony Young smashed his personal best in the under-17 men’s 400m with a time of 50.74 to win silver.
Ben Portykus grabbed his silver in the under-13 boys’ 800m with a time of 2:28.99. Rachel Easton was second in the under-13 girls’ 100m with a time of 14.13, while Kathryn Pennel was involved in an almighty battle up the home straight in the under-15 girls’ 1500m only just losing out on the gold in a dip finish in 4:51.99, only four hundredths of a second from the winner.
There was double silver in the senior 200m with Ryan Oswald in the men’s with a time of 22.03 and Jemma Walker in the women’s with 25.50, finishing ahead of her younger sister, Stephanie, who was fifth in 25.88.
The other four silver medals came on the field, with two from Ross McManus, the first in the hammer with a throw of 44.53 metres and the second in the discus, with a new personal best of 35.26.
The next silver came from Mhairi Porterfield in the senior women’s hammer with a throw of 52.96m. Lewis Hunter picked up his silver in the under-15 boys’ javelin with a throw of 18.51m and Danielle Hynd grabbed her silver in the under-17 women’s discus with a throw of 25.31m.
Of the bronze medallists, Jemma Walker was third in the senior women’s 100m with a time of 12.63, Naomi Fox third in the under-15 girls’ 75m hurdles with 12.91.
The 200m saw Jamie Coull in bronze in the senior men’s race in a time of 22.15, Glenn C Murray won bronze in the under-15 boys in his first ever district championships with a time of 25.64 and Claire Duncan was third in the under-15 girls with 27.72.
Michael Burns picked up his bronze in the senior men’s 400m hurdles with 58.10, Colin Law leaped to 3.54m in the under-13 boys’ long jump and Rachel Easton threw the under-13 girls’ shot putt 6.74m for third.
Eilidh Child travelled to Pavia, in Italy, to run in the European Permit Meeting on Sunday. The 2008 British Universities champion 400m hurdler faced up to the athlete whose university championship record she took when winning last weekend, Sian Scott, from England.
Child ran a great race to win with a season’s best of 57.29 beating Scott into second place (57.92).
Francis Smith contested the rarely run event of the 200m hurdles at the Scottish Athletics Open Graded Grand Prix series at Grangemouth on Wednesday.
Smith had hoped to break the long-standing Scottish record of 23.76 by Angus McKenzie held since 1981 and although he ran a great race, winning in 24.12, the strong head wind put paid to the record attempt.
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