Peebles runner Natasha Turnbull wins £600 100m open sprint at Innerleithen games for second time in four years

Turnbull, given a 19.5m handicap, clocked 10.51 seconds to claim the Victoria Park event’s biggest prize-money payout, £600.

Her winning time was almost identical to the 10.52 seconds she recorded from a 23m mark to win the Dickie Lees Memorial Trophy three years ago.

Edinburgh’s Ewan Miller was runner-up this time round, with Kelso’s Ruby Laing third, going from respective marks of 5m and 19m.

An invitational sprint over the same distance was won by Kelso’s Ben Nairn in 10.61 seconds, from a 7m mark.

Second place went to Hawick’s Ronan McKean and third to Motherwell’s Alan Robertson, handicapped at 8m and 7m respectively.

Selkirk’s Geoff Keen, given a 33m start, won the 200m open in 23.29 seconds, with Innerleithen’s Sarah Ross second and Rosyth’s Jack Beattie third, going from 48m and 36m.

Hawick’s Sean Linton took first place in the 800m open in 1:54.68, from a mark of 80m, with Kelso’s Matty Fleming and Oliver Hastie second and third, from 90m and 40m.

The day’s other senior race, over 1,600m, was won by Tweed Leader Jed Track’s Garry Ramsay in 4:24.26, from a 240m mark, with Hawick’s Scott Watson and Mark Young second and third, from 230m and 95m.

Eight youth races were also run, with TLJT’s Lewis Gaffney winning two of them, a confined race over 800m and an open over 1,600m, in times of 2:13.42 and 4:41.52, from marks of 150m and 340m.

An 800m open race for youths for the Craig Angus Memorial Trophy was won by Kelso’s Isaac Hastie in 2:00.06, handicapped at 180m.

Two youths’ 90m races were won by Peebles’ Robbie Ruthven in 9.41 seconds and Kelso’s Lottie Neil in 9.33, from marks of 11m and 33m.

Open 200m races were also run at the double, with first places going to TLJT’s Ella McGovern in 23.62 seconds and Kelso’s Reece Jackson in 23.81, from 50m and 38m, and a confined version for the New Zealand Trophy was won by TLJT’s Harry Aitken in 24.37 second, from 16m.

Innerleithen’s games were round six of eight, with Langholm’s next up on Friday, July 31, and 2026’s series winding up at Morebattle on Saturday, August 8.

Entries for Morebattle’s concluding round are open online at https://www.entrycentral.com/bordersathletics until this coming Sunday.

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