Border Games season about to resume at Hawick

This summer’s Border Games season resumes at Hawick this coming Sunday after a weekend off.

That’s round two of this year’s games after Earlston’s opening meeting got proceedings under way a week earlier than usual on Saturday, May 23.

Jessica Smith, pictured at April’s Flat ’n’ Fast races at Linlithgow, was among the winners at 2025’s Hawick Border Games (Photo: Neil Renton)

placeholder image — Jessica Smith, pictured at April’s Flat ’n’ Fast races at Linlithgow, was among the winners at 2025’s Hawick Border Games (Photo: Neil Renton)

One extra race will be run at this year’s Hawick games, being held at the town cricket club’s Buccleuch Park ground, and it’s a 1,600m for youths offering a top prize of £90.

It joins a line-up comprising 110m, 200m, 400m and 800m open handicaps and a 100m invitation sprint for seniors and 90m, 200m 400m and 800m handicaps for youths.

This Sunday’s meeting is one of three taking place in June, the others being at Selkirk on Saturday the 13th and Kelso on Sunday the 28th.

Three further rounds follow in July – at Jedburgh on Saturday the 11th, Innerleithen on Saturday the 18th and Langholm on Friday the 31st – and this season’s finale is at Morebattle on Saturday, August 8.

Entries for rounds four onwards of eight are open online at https://www.entrycentral.com/bordersathletics

Closing dates for submitting entries, all of them Sundays, are June 14 for round four at Kelso, June 28 for Jedburgh’s games, July 5 for Innerleithen’s, July 19 for Langholm’s and July 26 for Morebattle’s.

Last year’s senior winners at Hawick included home-town runners Kyle Potts over 400m, Jessica Smith over 800m and Robbie Welsh over 1,600m and Kelso’s Douglas Young over 110m.

Among the winning juniors were Hawick’s Abigail McCraw, Greg Watson and McLaren Welsh.