Allan Hamilton is first house in Males’s 60m ultimate on the 4J Senior Champs (photograph by way of Bobby Gavin)
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By means of Peter Jardine, Head of Communications
The go back to the Emirates Area used to be eagerly awaited this wintry weather – and the 4J Indoor Season didn’t disappoint.
A variety of Scottish Championship occasions needed to be cancelled final 12 months with the venue closed for important redevelopment forward of the Glasgow 2024 Global Indoors.
When the venue reopened once more this time, loads of athletes loved competing once more in a global elegance venue.
Certainly in some ways the Emirates itself has been the megastar of the previous few weeks from the Nationwide Open to the EAP meet to Age Teams and different championships.
Our Senior and U17 Champs introduced the curtain down on Sunday with that exact tournament having been rearranged from final January.
Scottish titles had been eagerly contested and whilst the later date obviously affected the fields in some occasions, obviously it used to be essential to host those championships after your entire cancellation in 2024.
Within the Senior Champs, there have been medallists within the age bracket from overdue teenagers to thirtysomethings. There used to be additionally one thing of an Edinburgh AC theme working via the ones topping the rostrum.
Allan Hamilton made a effective comeback to win the Males’s 60m gold for the primary time since 2022 – with the 32-year-old taking inspiration from GB’s Andy Robertson profitable bronze on the Eu Indoors at 34.
Allan gained in 6.79 seconds and with a PB of 6.72 that represented a very good go back to this stage.
‘My last individual title was three years so I am really pleased with this comeback,’ he mentioned.
‘I’ve saved myself ticking over to an extent however no longer coaching like prior to now. So I believe now there will have to be extra within the tank arising.
‘The Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games are there and maybe it can be fourth time lucky in terms of us having a men’s 4x100m relay group in there. I believe we now have some intensity now and there’s incentive there for everybody, this is needless to say.’
Matthew Tait gained the Top Leap and every other Edinburgh AC athlete, Stephen Mackenzie, leapt to 7.63m so as to add the Scottish name to the BUCS gold he gained previous in a robust indoor season.
‘I cannot be too unhappy but I guess you always want to have jumped further,’ he mentioned.
‘It is has been a good indoor season and I am excited to get back outdoors in the summer. I will take a week off now to recover a bit and then we will resume the training.’
Henry Clarkson used to be but every other Edinburgh AC box gold medallist along with his Triple Leap luck at 15.37m finishing a very good Indoor Season.
‘I won BUCS and then landed bronze at the British Champs so this is a third championship with podium,’ mentioned Henry.
‘Obviously the Seniors was delayed from the end of January but I think it is important to compete in the Scottish Champs and I’m glad to complete with gold after a actually sturdy indoor season.’
Springburn Harriers athlete Charis Crawford gained one of the most early occasions – taking gold within the Girls’s Pole Vault with a PB clearance of three.55m.
‘I am happy with that as I attempted 3.55m when I won the U20 title the week before and didn’t make it then,’ mentioned Charis.
‘So it has been a good couple of weekends at the Emirates. I started the season on a bit of a low but I feel I have turned that around and improving the PB again feels good.’
Dunfermline’s Sophie Thomas used to be every other U20 who savoured the profitable feeling – touchdown each 60m and 200m Senior titles. Murray Fotheringham gained the Males’s 200m ultimate in 21.82 with Struan Linton at 21.83.
VP-Glasgow athlete, Jill Cherry, took golds in each the 400m and 800m finals with sturdy runs.
Scottish Senior Champions
Girls’s Lengthy Leap: Lauren Callaghan (Finn Valley) 6.10m
Males’s Lengthy Leap: Stephen Mackenzie (Edinburgh AC) 7.63m
Girls’s Pole Vault: Charis Crawford (Springburn Harriers) 3.55m
Males’s Pole Vault: Andrew McFarlane (Edinburgh AC) 4.50m
Girls’s Shot: Amy Kennedy (Cumbernauld AAC)15.23
Males’s Shot: Kyle Randalls (Falkirk Victoria Harriers) 15.86m
Males’s 60m: Allan Hamilton (Edinburgh AC) 6.79
Girls’s 60m: Sophie Thomas (Dunfermline T and F) 7.57
Males’s 60m Hurdles: Scott Connal (Edinburgh AC) 8.15
Girls’s 60m Hurdles: Erin Campbell (Giffnock North) 8.63
Males’s 1500m: Peter Cameron (Edinburgh AC) 3:55.54
Males’s Top Leap: Matthew Tait (Edinburgh AC) 2.04m
Girls’s 200m: Sophie Thomas (Dunfermline T and F) 24.80
Males’s 200m: Murray Fotheringham (Giffnock North) 21.82
Girls’s 400m: Jill Cherry (VP-Glasgow) 54.09
Males’s 400m: Calum McKenzie (Cumbernauld AAC) 47.87
Girls’s 800m: Jill Cherry (VP-Glasgow) 2:12.42
Males’s 800m: Joshua Mungin (Kilbarchan AAC) 1:49.96
Stephen Mackenzie on his option to Males’s Lengthy Leap gold (photograph by way of Bobby Gavin)
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The massive spotlight within the Scottish U17 Champs got here proper on the finish of the day – and a 6th race of the day for Emma Clark.
Emma stormed away within the Girls’s 200m ultimate with Document-breaking intent and so it proved as her 23.93 run eclipsed her 24.04 mark from January in a very good efficiency by way of the Whitemoss AAC athlete.
Within the U17 Champs there have been Championship Highest Performances by way of Scots by way of Holly Whittaker within the 60m Hurdles and Kishi Aremu within the 60m.
U17 Scottish Champions
Males’s Shot: Rhian Mitchell (Kilmarnock Harriers) 13.87m
Girls’s Lengthy Leap: Holly Whittaker (Aberdeen AAC) 5.70m
Males’s Lengthy Leap: Angus Weir (Giffnock North) 6.30m
Girls’s 60m Hurdles: Holly Whittaker (Aberdeen AAC) 8.51
Girls’s 60m: Kishi Aremu (Livingston AC) 7.52
Males’s Pole Vault: Donald Ross (Edinburgh AC) 3.09
Girls’s Pole Vault: Isla Fitzgerald (Kilmarnock Harriers) 2.14m
Males’s Top Leap: Eli Adams (North Shields) 1.92m
Girls’s 1500m: Millie Ovens (Pitreavie AAC) 4:52.59
Males’s 1500m: Alistair Boulevard (Kilbarchan AAC) 3:57.20
Girls’s 200m: Emma Clark (Whitemoss AAC) 23.93
Males’s 200m: Ben Thompson (Dundee Hawkhill Harriers) 22.51
Girls’s 300m: Cara Monachello (Kilmarnock Harriers) 39.87
Males’s 400m: Riley Gardiner (Dunfermline T and F) 51.96
Girls’s 800m: Nieve Hannell (Pitreavie AAC) 2:16.78
Males’s 800m: Magnus Riddell (Tynedale) 1:54.23
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