Scottish Age Group Championships

Scottish Age Group Championships
Scotstoun
14th/15th August 2010

6 D&G athletes between the ages of 13 and 16 competed at the Scottish Age Group Championships held at the newly reopened Scotstoun stadium. Between they returned with 2 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 2 personal best performances.

Kirsten Gair (Stewartry AC) has been a dominant force in the Under 15 Discus in Scotland in 2009 and 2010. She again won a national title although she was pushed all the way. Her winning throw was 25.43m in a tight competition. She won by only 2cm and was only 5cm ahead of 3rd and 4th. In her other event, the Javelin, Kirsten was 7th in 25.78m, a bit down on her personal best but still won of her best throws ever.

The other gold medal of the weekend went to Katy Brown (Stewartry AC). After having a few injury problems in 2008 and 2009, she is finally back on track. She showed her intentions in winning her heat and continued that winning form into the final. She held off a challenge from Shettleston's Stella Winters to prevail in a new personal best time of 2:16.03.

Laura Penrice (Shettleston Harriers) has enjoyed success upon moving up to the 1500m and she continued that with a silver medal in the Under 15 event. Se moved through to the final from her heat easily and was only just edged out in 5:04.05.

Kieran Saunders (Nithsdale AC) is still only a first year Under 15 and was one of the youngest boys in the race. Still, he acquitted himself well in the heat, clocking a PB of 2:15.09 to advance through to the final. In the final, he ran his 2nd fastest time ever of 2:16.28 to finish a great 5th place.

Danielle Beattie (Nithsdale AC) is also first year in her age group. She faced the difficult task of doubling up in the 800m and 1500m. On the Saturday, it was the 1500m, which was a straight final. She finished in 6th place with 4:56.81, her second fastest time ever and only 0.4 seconds away from her PB. The 800m was a bit tougher as she didn't advance from her heat with a time of 2:26.60.

The other athlete was Chris Ponton (Nithsdale AC) who found the going tough in his 800m. He was 6th in his heat with 2:10.77.