Bronze medals for Borderers at age-grade athletics championships
Borderers Oliver McCraw and Isla Woodburn won bronze medals at the weekend’s Scottish Athletics under-14, under-16 and under-20 indoor championships at Glasgow’s Emirates Arena.
Gala Harriers under-16 McCraw finished third in his age bracket’s boys’ 200m on Saturday in a new personal best time of 24.12 seconds, with first place going to Glasgow’s David Omorogieva in 23.23.
McCraw also competed over 60m, missing out on a bronze medal by a hundredth of a second, finishing fourth in another PB of 7.40 seconds.
Saturday saw Tweed Leader Jed Track’s Woodburn share a bronze medal with Dunfermline’s Caitlin Chalmers at under-16 girls’ high jump as well, both clearing 1.52m, with gold going to Kilmarnock’s Eilidh Mitchell for a jump of 1.6m.
Woodburn competed at 60m and long jump too – recording PBs of 9.03 for 35th place and 4.42m for 13th – and also representing TLJT were Erin Jackson at under-16 girls’ 60m, Reece Jackson at under-14 boys’ 60m and Tess Renwick at under-20 women’s 60m.
Other Gala Harriers in action were Rachel Grant in the under-16 girls’ 60m and 300m and Abigail McCraw in the under-14 girls’ 60m.