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Chance to run the London Marathon

PLACES in next year’s London Marathon, which will take place on April 26, have been made available for anyone who wants to support Sense Scotland’s valuable work with blind and deaf children.Read

Champion show from Central

CENTRAL AC lived up to their billing as hot favourites at the East District Cross Country Relay Championships at Prestonpans.Read

Skills workshop

WORLD class sports high jump coach Fayyaz Ahmed will lead a special SportCentral workshop on fundamental movement skills next month.Read

Central stride out in Glasgow

A CONTINGENT of 14 Central Athletic Club athletes competed in the McAndrew Road Relay event held at Jordanhill, Glasgow on Saturday, October 4.Read

Competition set to hot up

YOUNG athletes representing Team Forth Valley will be competing against some of the UK’s top clubs next season after winning the National Junior Athletics League Northern Promotion recently.Read

Striding out in Berlin

WHILE the focus of most of Central Athletic Club was on the Club Championships at Grangemouth, there was a greater drama unfolding in Berlin where Robert Russell was competing in his first marathon.Read

Central AC’s Pentathletes shine in Perth

IT was a successful day for Central AC competitors taking part in the Scottish Pentathlon Championships in Perth at the weekend.Read

Africans lead the 10k way

THE entry of quality Eritrean athletes pushed Central’s Robert Russell to a personal best time in Sunday’s City of Stirling 10k.Read

Eritreans under starter’s orders

FINAL preparations are well under way for this Sunday’s City of Stirling 10k and 2k Road Races, which will be taking on a truly international flavour.Read

Russell is top Scot

THE Great Scottish Run Half Marathon held in Glasgow on Sunday, September 7 saw Central’s Robert Russell come home in twelfth place as top Scot and second British runner in a superb personal best of 65min 22secs.Read

Youngsters stride out

ALMOST 100 children took part in the regional Norwich Union Star:track Championships at Grangemouth Stadium.Read

Morag takes national title at Pitreavie

CENTRAL AC’s Morag MacLarty continued her return to top flight athletics with a fine win at the Stewart’s National Championships at Pitreavie, where she took the 1500m title against a strong field.Read

Youngsters stride out

ALMOST 100 children from across the Forth Valley took part in the recent regional Norwich Union Star:track Championships at Grangemouth Stadium.Read

Pitreavie success for Morag

CENTRAL AC’s Morag MacLarty continued her return to top flight athletics with a fine win at the Stewart’s National Championships at Pitreavie where she took the 1500 metres title against a strong field.Read

Pupils impress at UK Games

STIRLING swim star Martin Cremin scooped gold in the pool at the UK School Games at the weekend after the first ever dead heat in the competition’s history.Read

Kings Park Olympians

WITH the successful Beijing Olympics still fresh in the memory, Active Stirling and ClubSport Stirling climbed on the sporting bandwagon at a special day celebrating sport and physical activity on Sunday at Kings Park.Read

Drymen draws crowd for 10k

MORE than 120 runners took advantage of a break in the clouds to take part in the Drymen 10K on Saturday.Read

Central impress on Grangemouth track

THE Bank of Scotland Under 13, Under 15 and Under 17 Scottish Athletics Championships were held last weekend at Grangemouth Stadium.Read

Good performances at open meet

Sarah Dick tackled the Under 15 Girls 75metres hurdles and made light of the conditions as she showed good form in returning a time of 14.20secs. Under 15 Ryan Calder tackled his first ever competitive 100metres and should be pleased with his 13.92secs performance as should Under 15, Sophie Brown, clocking 14.50secs. Under 13 Girls Chelsea Whyte (15.48secs) and Kirsty Forsyth (16.03secs) also performed promisingly along with Under 11, Isla Burns (16.40secs). Laura Nicholson also ran well to finish with 16.54secs. The conditions also affected the 800metre races and it was good to see Martyn Paterson (Under 17) moving up to this distance and clocking a useful 2min 11.9secs. Kathryn Gillespie (Under 13) continues to show excellent form and here won her race with an excellent 2min 28.9secs. Tara Walls is another Under 13 who continues to make progress and here finished in 2min 56.8secs while Philip Wright, also Under 13, came home in a useful 2min 52.2secs. Sarah Dick was another to move up a distance, tackling the 300metres and finishing in a tasty 48.55secs. Under 20 athlete Michael Gillespie dipped under 9mins for 3000metres with an 8min 59secs timing in a quality race.Read

Juniors show class in Perth

CENTRAL Athletic juniors showed that they were a force to be reckoned with when they competed in the George Duncan Testimonial Athletic Competition in Perth.Read

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