Sunday saw a welcome return to competition for Shetland’s athletes with the first home competition of the season, held at Clickimin Athletics Track. In total 71 performances were recorded over the two hour open graded programme with many athletes achieving personal bests, despite the cold and windy conditions.
A biting headwind on the home straight had a knock on impact on the times achieved on the track and the field distances recorded reflected the bitterly cold air but all coaches were delighted with the progress of winter training being demonstrated by the athletes.
The full results of the competition are as follows:
Track
100m Race 1 12.12 Stuart Bain SEN M -3.10 13.22 Ross Dinwoodie U17B -3.10 13.47 James Masson U20M -3.10 13.67 Murray Todd U17M -3.10 13.95 Martin Leyland M65 -3.10
100m Race 2 13.82 Lewis Williamson U15B -1.40 14.38 Karsten Holden U17M -1.40 14.72 Ryan Drakeford U15B -1.40
100m Race 3 14.08 Abbie Taylor U17G -1.60 14.59 Lauren Grains U17G -1.60 15.24 Eva Thompson U13G -1.60 15.48 Jessie Tait U15G -1.60 16.83 Ava Williamson U15G -1.60
100m Race 4 16.07 Winnie Johnston U13G -3.40 16.07 Holly Gray U13G -3.40 16.31 Morgan Taylor U15G -3.40 17.21 Kayla Smith U13G -3.40 18.09 Shaye Isbister U13G -3.40
100m Race 5 15.93 Robert Robertson U11B -2.60 16.05 Max Finnie U13B -2.60 16.39 Ross Drakeford U13B -2.60 18.18 Calen Bannister U11B -2.60 19.83 Rhys Taylor U11B -2.60
4.76m Bobby Nicolson U20M -0.40 4.54m Abbie Taylor U17W -1.80 4.21m Karsten Holden U17M -1.50 4.04m Ryan Drakeford U15B -1.40 3.96m Lauren Grains U17W -3.00 3.71m Max Smith U15B -1.00 3.57m Morgan Taylor U15G -1.70 2.88m Taylor Moar U15B -1.20 2.77m Abby Harcus U15G -2.40 Long Jump (Flight 2)
3.33m Ross Drakeford U13B -1.90 3.26m Winnie Johnston U13G -2.10 3.22m Eva Thomson U13G -1.90 3.00m Kayla Smith U13G -0.30 2.93m Max Finnie U13B -2.40 2.39m Rhys Taylor U11B -1.70 2.00m Eve Moncrieff U11G -1.50
Shetland Amateur Athletics Club Chairwoman, Elaine Park commented, “Sunday’s competition was great and you could see the smiles of the athletes, coaches and officials as they settled back into a competition format unaffected by COVID restrictions. The sport has lost a lot of ground over the pandemic, with the older teenagers perhaps suffering the most, and this has been a great start to the re-build. We have had athletes qualifying to represent Shetland at the North District Championships with their first performances of the season and that is remarkable. The Club wish to thank Jamieson’s of Shetland for their continued sponsorship and support with our home competition calendar, which continues on Sunday 24th April with our Spring Open and Junior Inter County trials. The competition is open to everyone and entries can be made through Entry Central https://www.entrycentral.com/festival/3104. Entries close on Monday 18th April at 12 noon and we would encourage anyone who is interested in being part of the team travelling to Orkney in June to come along and try out.”
