World champion Andy Douglas keeps on winning right to end of latest Borders Cross-Country Series

That 6km senior race was part of a concluding presentation round and doesn’t count towards the competition’s standings but Douglas’s four prior wins were enough to earn him overall victory.

The 39-year-old, representing Inverclyde Athletics Club, notched up victories at Galashiels in February, Gorebridge in Midlothian and Paxton in January and Dunbar in November, with victory in the series’ other two rounds, at Lauder in November and Peebles in December, going to Tom Martyn, of Edinburgh’s Hunters Bog Trotters.

Edinburgh’s Cat Wright was overall female winner after finishing as first woman at Galashiels, Gorebridge and Peebles and second at Paxton.

Overall junior winners were Team East Lothian’s Tom Ibbs and Edinburgh’s Kate Riches.

Senior female age-category wins went to Lauderdale Limpers over-40 Naomi Dijkman and over-60 Carol Mantle and Gala Harriers over-50 Lisa Dalgliesh and male ones to Teviotdale over-45 David Beattie and Gala over-70 David Nightingale.

Gala under-11 Rose Davidson was among the junior age-class winners and her male opposite numbers included Teviotdale under-nine Struan Linton, under-11 Connor Davidson and under-15 Greg Watson.

Hunters Bog Trotters claimed both male and female team shields, with Teviotdale third in the former and Lauderdale fourth in the latter.

Douglas clocked 21:04 on Sunday to finish at the forefront of a field of 545, with Lasswade junior Rowan Taylor as runner-up four seconds behind him and Penicuik over-40 Adam Gray third in 22:59.

Mark Young was one of three Borderers to pull off top-ten finishes, placing fourth in 23:24, the others being fellow Teviotdale over-35 Sean Linton, eighth in 24:56, and Moorfoot Runners’ Jack Philip, ninth in 25:08.

A further seven made the top 30 – Teviotdale’s David Beattie and Robbie Linton, 16th in 26:07 and 23rd in 27:01 respectively, and Gala’s Jamie Robertson, James Dennison, Sam McKinnon, Andrew Cox and Simon Anderson, their times being 26:18 for 18th place, 26:27 for 19th, 27:05 for 24th, 27:34 for 29th and 27:38 for 30th.

Not too far behind them were Gala’s Matty Fleming and Francis McElroy, 32nd in 27:47 and 36th in 28:01, and Lauderdale’s Iain Dick and Dean Whiteford, 33rd in 27:51 and 35th in 27:58.

Carnethy Hill-Racing Club over-35 Wright was first female finisher, and 14th all told, in 25:55.

Sunday’s 3.2km junior race was won by Teviotdale under-15 Alfie Walker in 12:37.

He was one of four Borderers to make the top ten of a field of 248, followed by Gala under-13 Angus McCarthy and his clubmate Davidson, respectively fifth in 13:22 and seventh in 13:38, the latter also being first girl home, and Teviotdale under-13 Rosa Mabon, ninth in 13:56.