Medals at Scottish Age Group Championship
Posted by on 20 August 2015
Three Arbroath athletes bring home FIVE Scottish Championship Medals.
There was 3 Gold medals for Joel Mcfarlane, a Silver for Ellen Robertson and a Bronze for Rachel Broadfoot.The club was represented across all the age groups at this weekends Scottish Championship at Grangemouth stadium.
On Saturday in the under 13's Ellis Hudson competed well in both the javelin and discus while in the under 17's Alix Small produced some fine runs in the 80m & 300m hurdlesand Niamh Feigan competed in the shot putt.
Sunday was the turn for the U15 and U20 athletes, where as well as picking up 5 medals, five U15 club records were also bettered. These included Iona Mcfarlane improving her own pole vault and Javelin records. Despite a 1.6m headwind Rachel Broadfoot bettered a 75m hurdles record set back in 1998 by a certain C. Webber and Joel Mcfarlane improved his own 80m hurdles record & also added M. Downie's Javelin record. Matthew Law also had a excellent discus competition throwing close to his pb and the medals.
Medals did come in the form of a Silver for U20 athlete Ellen Robertson in the women's triple jump - 11.28m , just 16cm off the top spot. Rachel Broadfoot's excellent run in the U15 girls75m hurdles - 11.96, was rewarded with a Bronze medal. While Joel Mcfarlane picked up a Gold medal with a javelin throw - 47.85m, which puts him 9th in the Scottish all time ranking list. His run in the 80m hurdles - 11.36, into a strong -2.2m wind was good enough for a 2nd Gold medal. His third Gold came in long jump - 6.50m, where he set a new Championship Record and the longest ever jump by a Scottish U15 athlete, but an above legal tail wind means his jump will not stand as a Scottish record.
See Results tab for full set of results.
