Tweed Leader Jed Track runners win all three 90m sprints at 2026’s Langholm Border Games

Given a mark of 13m, Renwick crossed the finishing line in 9.75 seconds to claim that four-figure payout, accompanied by the Sarah Turner Memorial Challenge Trophy.

Hawick’s Jack Wilson, handicapped at 11.75m, was runner-up, earning £300, and Renwick’s clubmate Cameron Tindle, going from scratch, was third, picking up prize money of £125.

Tindle did better still in the second-richest race of the day, also over 90m but without handicapping, winning in 9.97 seconds to secure a top prize of £500.

Glasgow’s Gkontouin Imante was runner-up and Kelso’s Douglas Young took third place, respectively earning £125 and £45.

A third 90m sprint, invitational rather than open, was won by TLJT’s Tess Renwick in 9.91 seconds, from a mark of 14m, with her clubmate Craig Tindle second and Kelso’s Ruby Laing third, going from 7m and 18.5m.

Hawick runners won three of the four other senior races – Ronan McKean over 200m, Mark Young over 800m for the second year in a row and Scott Wilson over 1,600m – the odd man out being Kelso’s Lewis Fleming over 400m.

McKean’s winning time, from a 16m mark, was 23.17 seconds, with Hawick’s David Lauder and Selkirk’s Colin Bruce third, from 31m and 38m.

Young clocked 2:00.15 from a mark of 55m for his win, with Hawick’s Rory Anderson as runner-up from 35m and Kelso’s Oliver Hastie third from 40m.

Watson, given a 250m start, won his mile-long race in 4:21.44, withHawick’s Irvine Welsh second from 135m and Hastie third from 55m.

Fleming, representing Kelso’s Addie Gray Running School, clocked a winning time of 51.69 seconds, from a 38m mark, with Northumberland’s Lea Stephenson second from 21m and Hawick’s Robbie Welsh third from 12m.

Innerleithen’s Stuart Whiteford won the games’ £400 high jump championship by clearing 1.6m, with Nottinghamshire’s Calum Johnstone second and TLJT’s Isla Woodburn third after managing 1.5m and 1.45m respectively.

Six youth races were also run, four of them won by AG Running School competitors.

The Kelso club’s winners were Bella Forsyth and Aiden Lothian over 90m, Ben Nairn over 200m and Cam Scott over 800m.

Forsyth won the sprint for children aged nine to 11 in 9.49 seconds, from a 32m mark, and Lothian followed suit in the 12-15 age bracket in 9.78 seconds, from 12m.

Nairn’s winning time in the 200m race for youths of 12 to 15 went unrecorded after being handicapped at 5m but Scott, given a 190m start, clocked 1:58.86.

Friday’s other junior winners were TLJT’s Nathan Goodfellow in the 200m race for children of nine to 11 in 24.31 seconds, from 54m, and Hawick’s Alfie Walker over 1,600m in 4:45.28, from 50m.

Langholm’s games were round seven of eight, with 2026’s series wrapping up at Morebattle this coming Saturday.