Borders club runners chalk up two firsts at open athletics meeting in Glasgow
Runners representing Borders clubs chalked up two wins at Scottish Athletics’ 2026 indoor graded open meeting at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena on Sunday.
Gala Harriers under-18 Robert Horton won the day’s band-F 400m race in 55.20 seconds, over three-quarters of a second ahead of runner-up Lewis Mitchell, an under-18 at East Kilbride’s Whitemoss Amateur Athletics Club.
Horton also managed a top-three placing in the band-C 200m, finishing third in a personal best time of 23.96, just over a quarter of a second behind winner Ross Kinkade, an under-16 at South Lanarkshire’s Larkhall YMCA Harriers. Another under-16, Gala’s Oliver McCraw, was seventh in 24.78.
Tweed Leader Jed Track senior Cameron Tindle won the band-A 60m race in a personal best time of 6.86, over a tenth of a second ahead of South Lanarkshire runner-up Owen Murphy.
Tindle’s brother Scott was fifth in 7.13 and Hawick’s Ryan McMichan, representing Edinburgh Athletic Club, eighth in 7.24, both also PBs, with the former registering a further best of 12.43m to win in his pool at triple jump.
A further Tindle, Craig, finished the band-C 60m race first in a PB of 7.50, a hundredth of a second ahead of Edinburgh’s Louis Lazcano-Thornton.
The Tindles’ clubmates Tess Renwick and Robyn Lees, an under-20 and under-16 respectively, were tenth in the band-D version of that race in 8.14 and sixth in band G in 8.80.
Renwick was also seventh in the band-E 200m in 26.61 and Lees was 15th in her long jump pool with a distance of 4.59m, a PB.
Renwick’s sister Evie, a senior, was 15th in the band-D 200m in 26.33, with first place being claimed by Fife Athletic Club under-16 Billy Braid in 24.79.
Cameron and Scott Tindle also contested the band-A 200m, finishing second in 21.85 and eighth in 22.76 respectively, both PBs, with first place going to Shettleston Harriers’ Gkontouin Imante in 21.84.
Their under-16 clubmate Isla Woodburn was fourth in her high jump pool, clearing 1.47m, 10cm short of the winning height registered by Cumbernauld Amateur Athletics Club senior Amy Kennedy.
She was also 14th in 52.77 in the under-16s band-B 300m, won by Edinburgh’s Blake Burchill in 41.53.
Gala under-18 Kacie Brown ran in the band D 800m and finished 12th in a time of 2:43.
The two Borders clubs’ travelling parties were among almost 800 athletes competing in 64 events.