Scottish Senior & U18 Indoor Championships

Report by John McOmish

Another weekend at the Emirates Arena and another championships for Lasswade athletes – 8 athletes entered themselves across the events taking place.

U18W

Emma, Morven and Aoife S all entered in the HJ; Emma clearing 1.34m for 7^th place, Morven clearing 1.39m for 6^th place and Aoife picking up a bronze medal with a clearance of 1.54m.

Aoife also competed in the 200m, qualifying from her heat in 2^nd place with 26.30, before running faster in her semi final with a time of 26.20

Morven once again demonstrated her skills across multiple events and competed in the PV and 400m alongside the HJ. Picking up a bronze medal with a first time clearance at 2.29m before then winning her heat in the 400m with a PB of 61.28 to qualify for the final; running another PB of 60.53 for 4^th place.

U18M

The U18M age group saw Ruairidh taking on the 400m, running the 2 laps indoors in a time of 56.10 for 4^th in his heat.

Jake was contesting the 1500m. Tough qualifying conditions of only the top 5 in each heat, Jake sadly missed out by a tenth of a second in his heat, finishing 6^th in 4:28.62. It’s worth noting that the speed of the race, with the top 6 finishers all separated by less than 1 second!

Senior Men

Andrew Brown was back at the Emirates once again to run many laps of the 200m track – running in the 1500m as a straight final, Andrew ran 4:12.91 to come across the line 7^th.

Petter Tye, not wanting to run as many laps as Andrew, entered into the shorter distances of 60m and 200m. In the 60m, Petter navigated his heat coming 2^nd in 7.34, behind the eventual winner. In the semi final, Petter came through in a time of 7.37 for 7^th place. For his 3^rd race of the day, the 200m the tough qualifying of top 2 and next two best, Petter finished 3^rd in his heat with a time of 23.75

Finally, Alec Miller was through for the HJ. Surviving a scare at 1.84m, Alec jumped 1.94m at the first time, claiming the silver medal and 1cm below the PB set the previous competition at the Open.

Lasswade came away with 3 medals – 1 silver and 2 bronze. A massive thanks goes out to everyone involved in helping ALL Lasswade athletes compete at competitions – family, coaches and officials.