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Effects from Livingston
Lengthy ahead of they hit the street and the miles to the Olympics, Megan Keith and Callum Hawkins featured within the Nationwide Street Relays.
They had been again at Livingston on Saturday and Freya Ross made it no fewer than 3 Olympians racing at the well known venue primarily based at St Margaret’s Academy.
With Paralympic T20 1500 champion Ben Sandilands at the opening leg for Fife AC, and GB and NI 100k internationals Chris Richardson and Dougie Selman in motion as neatly, it indubitably felt like there have been most sensible athletes far and wide you regarded.
The ambience at this match all the time appears like an excellent amassing of our golf equipment and the contest in any respect 3 age teams within the two races is intense on an annual foundation.
So it proved as soon as once more in 2025 and because the tales spread out each Megan and Callum duly anchored their lifelong golf equipment to gold medals – each and every on the sharp finish of excellent crew efforts through Inverness Harriers girls and Kilbarchan AAC males
It was once a first actual identify win on this match for Inverness within the Senior Girls’s class.
Their successful crew featured Caitlin Heggie, Helen Leigh, Jenny Bannerman and Megan, in her first race since that memorable 10,000m ultimate on the Olympics the place she carried an harm for 25 laps ahead of being enveloped within the include of Eilish McColgan.
‘I heard whispers that there might be an Inverness team being put together for this event and my coach (Ross Cairns) and I felt it might be a good place to come back and get the race shoes on again,’ mentioned Megan.
‘I’ve had a large number of rehab because the Olympics and I’ve had a large number of enhance round me. It was once a tricky night time in Paris and it was once just right to have Eilish ready on the finish to enhance me.
‘Lately there was once an opening on leaders Edinburgh after I activate however I may see Kirsty Walker up forward for many of the race. I simply stored looking to chip away on the lead.
‘It’s great to put on the membership vest and this can be a special occasion for us as a crew to be Nationwide Street Relay gold medallists.’
Edinburgh AC, leaders for such a lot of the race after Beth Ansell‘s rapid first leg, in the long run needed to accept silver medals and there have been bronzes for Central AC.
Within the Girls’s Masters match, there was once a win for Garscube Harriers because of the efforts of Jill Blee, Mary Senior, Ilona Kriauzaithe and Katie White. Greenock Glenpark took silvers and host membership Lothian Working Membership received the bronzes.
Within the W50 race, there was once a win for Giffnock North AC from Edinburgh AC and Kirkintilloch Olympians. Giffnock’s successful crew was once Hilary Carswell, Allie Chong and Angela Carson.
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Kilbarchan strike gold in Livingston (2014 document)
The Olympian theme prolonged to the Males’s race when Callum Hawkins closed off a very good crew effort through Kilbarchan.
It was once a unique second as they repeated their 2014 victory in every week when membership legend Arthur Smith was once laid to relaxation. The crew devoted the win to Arthur’s reminiscence.
Touchdown the ones gold medals had been Jack Patton, Lewis Hannigan, Robbie Ferguson, Jack Heathwood, Fraser Gilmour and Callum.
Central AC took the silvers this time (after 3 in a row) and Cambuslang Harriers got here thru in 3rd position (after sturdy effort through Fife AC).
‘I have a 100 percent record here,’ grinned Callum, who received through simply six seconds in any case after combating to catch Central AC’s 6th runner Hamish Hickey.
”I used to be in a successful crew with Kilbarchan again in 2014 however I’m the one one nonetheless on this (more youthful) crew now.
‘I’m now not positive what the deficit was once however through midway I had closed it through 35 seconds. I almost certainly stuck Central AC at the gravel with a few mile to head and fortunately had sufficient left arising the hill and into the end.
‘It was good to wear the club vest again and I hope to do that on future occasions, too.’
Corstorphine AAC are sturdy on this match within the Masters and M50 races and received the golds within the M40 class. Edinburgh AC had been 2nd and Cambuslang Harriers had been 3rd. The successful crew was once Doug McKinnon, Donald McCauley, Murray Anderson, Ian Hutchinson, Chris Poxton and Stewart Livingston.
Within the M50 race, the similar 3 golf equipment shared the medals with the win this time for Cambuslang Harriers from Corstorphine AAC and Edinburgh AC. Cambuslang’s successful crew was once Chris Upson, Julian Carter, Mark Gallacher and Stevie Wylie.
The 2 V50 units of medallists at Livingston
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