Athletics: Law in fine form for Glasgow championships

Feb 3 2010 by Andrew Weston, Wishaw Press

LAW and District AAC athletes have been very busy over the last few weeks competing at various indoor championships at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow.

Law had five of their senior athletes selected to represent the Scotland West Coast team at the championships, competing against Glasgow City, Tayside and Fife, Central and East and Grampian.

Gary Grieve from Carluke competed in the u-23 ‘A’ 800m, coming fourth in an excellent new PB time of 1 min 55.74 secs.

Kirstie McLeod, u-20, from Lesmahagow came third in the ‘B’ 200m in 28.45secs with Motherwell’s David Martin, u-23, was second in the ‘A’ long jump (6.91m).

The competition ended with close relay medleys – 2x200m and 2x400m in both male and female categories. Lynn Livesey and Kirstie McLeod both ran a 200m leg.

The Glasgow City Cup was decided in the thrilling relay events and was won by Tayside and Fife by one point from West Coast.

The Closed Scottish Indoor Championships for u-15 and u-17 athletes was held at the Kelvin Hall on Saturday, January 16.

Six youngsters from the club competed, with the stand-out performers being Alice McGrath and Ross Hill.

Alice narrowly missed out on a medal when she came fourth in the u-15 800m (2 mins 32.13 secs). In his first year at u-17 level, Ross was fifth in the 800m in a time of 2 mins 10.53 secs.

Julie Dobbin was third in her u17 300m heat (3 mins 45.37 secs).

Kevin McGhee ran the u-7 60m in 8.03 secs and jumped 5.28m in the long jump.

Thomas Baxter competed well in both the u-15 60m (8.51 secs) and 200m (27.79 secs).

Lewis Nicholson completed the line-up for the club with two encouraging performances in the u-17 shot put (11.12m) and 200m (25.64 secs), although he was competing for the Glasgow School of Sport.