Photograph end . . . Kishi Aremu edges out Emma Clark in an exhilarating U20 Girls’s 60m ultimate (picture by way of Bobby Gavin)
Age Teams Effects
Brodie Younger’s newest very good sprinting efficiency in america came about just a few hours prior to the doorways opened on the Emirates Area for our 4J Age Workforce Champs.
The Airdrie Harrier now primarily based in New Mexico has had a shocking indoor season together with his newest exploit a 200m victory in underneath 21 seconds – which is able to take him to 2nd within the Scottish all-time record.
Brodie clocked 20.80 and that’s rounded as much as 20.87 with altitude considered.
Alyson Bell, in the meantime, is that includes throughout our channels with race pictures from the United Kingdom Indoor Champs the place she gained gold and broke the Scottish Girls’s 200m File in positive taste at 23.12.
Any individual in attendance at our Age Workforce Champs over the last 5-10 years will recall each Alyson and Brodie sprinting on the Emirates.
And their names have been throughout lips because the motion opened up at the 2025 model – with the development again within the Glasgow venue for the primary time in two years.
Certainly, as though to most sensible off our theme right here, Livingston athlete Kishi Aremu broke the Scottish U17 File for 60m as she gained gold within the U20 champs.
Kishi’s successful time of seven.52 seconds broke the U17 Girls’s 60m File indoors held by way of . . . Alyson Bell (at 7.57).
Actually, silver medallist Emma Clark of Whitemoss AAC used to be additionally throughout the earlier time with 7.53 in a photograph end with Aremu with the pair separated by way of 100th of a 2nd.
Thus the phrase ‘pathway’ echoed across the venue in conversations with coaches, Officers and workforce contributors.
‘I watched Brodie as he came through the age groups with Airdrie Harriers and, of course, as a club, we are hugely proud of what he is now achieving in his athletics,’ stated Airdrie trainer Kerr Extra.
‘He had a fantastic work ethic and commitment to training from a young age. It has been totally inspirational to see him come from where he was to where he is now and what an example he’s atmosphere for younger Scottish athletes.
‘Concentrate, I will be able to keep in mind occasions when he used to be coaching on any other a part of the monitor and I used to be taking a consultation with more youthful athletes. I’d forestall the consultation for a second and inform the youngsters to observe Brodie.
‘We did that repeatedly as a result of even in that second they might be informed from his center of attention, his method his desirer to get the rep proper. We’re seeing that onerous paintings repay and Alyson Bell is any other nice instance – all of us watched her as a child with Giffnock North.
‘You do get kids – and especially parents – who are looking for a ‘quick result’ or luck in athletics. It does now not paintings like that; it’s about development thru your teenage years. And an extended development throughout the other phases.’
Livingston athlete Kishi, who’s in our Nationwide Academy, used to be delighted along with her 60m run.
‘I am delighted with the run and it was a really close finish with Emma,’ she stated.
‘My PB before today was 7.59 so that’s it all the way down to 7.52. I believe it’s only exhausting paintings with my trainer paying off.
‘I know how well Alyson has been performing so it’s nice to have certainly one of her Data within the U17 age staff.’
Additionally at U20 degree, Josh Mungin‘s 800m run of one:51.27 used to be very with regards to the championship perfect (held at 1:51.11 and set in 1994).
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The U15 Champs noticed some just right performances as athletes chased PBs, puts in finals or coveted slots at the 4J Age Teams podium.
VP-Glasgow athlete Tristan Wong claimed double gold within the top leap and pole vault whilst Aberdeen AAC loved luck by the use of Cameron Kennedy and David Clark. Airdrie athlete Dionne Maguiness loved a gold medal double within the top leap and lengthy leap.
There have been dash doubles over 60m and 200m for Callan Campbell of Falkirk and Charlotte Thomas of Dunfermline.
4J Age Workforce Champs gold medals as follows:
U15
Boys 1500m – Gregor McNaught (Springburn Harriers) 4:25.49Girls 1500m – Imogen Turner (Staff East Lothian) 4:47. 55
Boys 200m – Callan Cambell (Falkirk Victoria Harriers) 24.22Girls 200m – Charlotte Thomas (Dunfermline Monitor and Box) 26.22
Boys 300m – Max Barker (Banchory Stonehaven) 38.04Girls 300m – Amy Johnstone (Carlisle) 43.36Boys 60m – Cameron Kennedy (Aberdeen AAC) 7.35Girls 60m – Charlotte Thomas (Dunfermline Monitor and Box) 8.10Boys 60m H – Callan Campbell (Falkirk Victoria Harriers) 9.22Girls 60m H – Ellie Harrison (Gateshead) 9.42Boys 800m – Harry Robinson (Dundee Hawkhill) 2:05.17Girls 800m – Nellie Bateman (Belgooly AC) 2:16.27
Boys Lengthy Leap – Joseph Lanahan (Shettleston Harriers) 5.93mGirls Lengthy Leap – Dionne Maguiness (Airdrie Harriers) 5.10m
Boys Triple Leap – David Clark (Aberdeen AAC) 10.34mGirls Triple Leap – Charlotte Doyle (VP-Glasgow) 9.53mBoys Top Leap – Tristan Wong (VP-Glasgow) 1.66mGirls Top Leap – Dionne Maguiness (Airdrie Harriers) 1.62mBoys Pole Vault – Tristan Wong (VP-Glasgow) 2.42m
Boys Shot Put 4k – Murray Robb (Pitreavie AAC) 14.38mGirls Shot Put 3k – Rosie Paterson (Whitemoss AAC) 9.01m
U20
Males 60m – Gkontouin Imante (Shettleston Harriers) 6.96Women 60m – Kishi Aremu (Livingston AC) 7.52Men 800m – Joshua Mungin (Kilbarchan AAC) 1:51.27Women 800m – Freya Bateman (Belgooly AC) 2:13.58
Males Triple Leap – Abraham Lanahan (Shettleston Harriers) 13.50mWomen Triple Leap – Matilda Brockley (Edinburgh AC) 12.12mWomen Shot Put 4k – Ava Mitchell (VP-Glasgow) 11.26mMen Top Leap – Nathan Mobbs (North Ayrshire AC) 1.83m
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