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Scottish Under 17 Indoor Championships
Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Saturday 26th January 2019

There were a host of new personal best performances for Central AC’s athletes at the Scottish under 17 championships at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow on Saturday. Daniel Ferguson and Molly Cornes were the top performers as Central’s youngsters took on the best in Scotland.
Sprint hurdler, Daniel Ferguson is no stranger to top flight competition. The 16 year old from Tullibody won a silver medal for Scotland at last year’s Celtic games international. Daniel was contesting the 60m Hurdles and looked strong in his heat as he qualified in 3rd place equalling his personal best of 8.87s. However it was a close contest with 5 athletes qualifying within 0.1s of each other. The final was a fast race and Daniel found himself in 4th place. He ran hard but couldn’t quite get into the medals however was rewarded with an excellent new personal best 8.74s. Daniel also managed a seasons best 7.68s in the 60m, just missing his personal best.
Molly Cornes was contesting the high jump and long jump and had the challenge of a timetable clash between the 2 events. The 14 year old from Balfron, opted to focus on the high jump and cleared every height up to 1.53m after which the bar was then raised to 1.58m, higher than her personal best of 1.55m. After a close first attempt she managed to go clear at the second attempt to set a new PB height. She had some good attempts at 1.63m but was unable to improve her PB further however she was pleased with 7th place and a 3cm improvement to her personal best.
Molly then went straight over to the long jump and having missed the first 2 rounds had just one jump available to qualify for the top 8. She also had the difficulty of having missed the warm up meaning she had not been able to check her run up so had to trust the mark she had laid out. Thankfully the mark was spot on and she nailed a massive personal best jump of 5.30m to put her in 7th place and qualify for another 3 jumps. She was unable to improve on this position but her 5.30m distance was not only a 46cm personal best, it puts her 3rd on the club indoor all time list and earns her a silver standard on the club awards scheme.
Lois Burch is relatively inexperienced at this level but made big improvements in both the 60m hurdles and 200m. The 15 year old from Callander started with a 9.71s 60m hurdles which was a massive 0.66s personal best. This put her in 18th place but with 8 English athletes ahead of her she was actually 10th fastest Scot however she missed out on a place in the semi finals. Also in the hurdles, Coirilidh Cook was looking to get into the medals having won numerous titles at under 15 last year including victory at the Celtic Games international. She looked comfortable in her heat which she won in 9.17s, however with the strong English opposition in her semi final, pushed slightly too hard and unfortunately caught the first hurdle leaving her unable to reach the final. Hurdlers always operate to fine margins and she will learn from this and look to get back to her best when she defends her Scottish schools title in 2 weeks time.
There was more to come from Lois as she took on the 200m where she set another big personal best of 27.50s, knocking 1.2s from her previous fastest. This time she did manage to progress to the semi finals and though she wasn’t able to make the final was very pleased with her days work.
Also setting a new mark in the 200m was Mavia Duncan who ran a personal best 28.83s, though not enough to progress it was a 2 second improvement on her previous best.
Lucy More sprinted well in the 60m and having qualified for the semi finals with 8.36s went even faster in her semi with 8.29s, just missing her personal best.
There were several other good performances by the Central athletes. Kyra Gibb set an indoor best in the 1500m of 5:00.6 minutes to qualify for the final. Shona McLay qualified for the 300m semi finals with a time of 43.99s and Rebecca Cumming took on the triple jump placing a respectable 12th with 8.93m.
Overall it was good to see the Central athletes taking on the best in Scotland and the number of them rewarded with new personal bests. ...

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1 month ago

England Indoor Combined Events Championships
Sheffield, 5/6 January 2019

Central AC were well represented at the Senior and under 20 England Indoor Combined events championships in Sheffield earlier this month as brothers Tom and Matt Chandler were chasing selection for Great Britain against the best all round athletes from throughout the UK.
Tom Chandler was competing in the Senior Men’s Heptathlon 3 years after earning his Great Britain debut at junior level. The 21 year old originally from Balfron but now living in Uxbridge, graduated from University last year and started his first full time job meaning he has to face the challenges of balancing full time work with the training demands of decathlon. He is also currently in transition between training groups so knew it would be a challenge to try and get into the reckoning for selection for the senior GB team. But he stuck to the task and sprinted to 7.55s in the 60m, followed with a 6.48m long jump, 11.34m shot then 1.83m high jump to finish the first day with 2609 points for 21st place. In the second day he ran 8.95s over the 60m hurdlers then had a strong 4.20m pole vault before finishing with 2:48.09 minutes in the 1000m. In spite of the extra demands placed on him he had managed to score 4825 points, within 200 of his personal best, and place 15th overall and a very respectable 6th in the under 23 category against the best all round athletes from throughout the UK.
Afterwards Tom commented “I’m just getting to grips with working full time now and training and how difficult that is becoming. I was just not competition sharp, fitness wise and was just not reacting off the floor and it showed. But I’m looking forward to summer now with new coaching set up which should put me in good stead for outdoors!” Hopefully we can see him back to his best for the summer.
Matt Chandler was contesting the Junior Heptathlon and had the perfect start as he sprinted to a personal best 7.54s in the 60m. He followed this with 6.53m in the long jump then another pb 10.57m in the shot. He was then looking to make his move in his strongest pole vault event however things didn’t go to plan as he managed only 3.80m, well down on his 4.32m club record. This gave him an uphill struggle to get into contention for the medals and GB selection. But he started well when he returned for the second day started with 8.88s in the 60m hurdles then he equalled his personal best in the high jump with an excellent 1.92m, the 3rd highest jump of the day to pull him up to 7th place. He then finished with another personal best 2:50.38 minutes to retain 7th place for an excellent personal best final score of 4751 points. Matt was able to take the positives and negatives from the competition commenting “My immediate reaction was I was a bit disappointed with the pole vault which ended my chances at the GB vest but a couple of days later I realised I still managed 4 Pb’s so very mixed emotions from the competition.” Matt will next be in action at the Scottish championships at the Emirates in February.
Also competing in the junior Heptathlon was second claim Central athlete Joel MacFarlane, representing Arbroath on the day, who set a personal best 5113 points for the bronze medal. This earned Joel his second selection for Great Britain in the upcoming international after making his debut at the event last year. ...

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Well done Team Chandler! Fantastic to be in the chase for selection....

Well done, both of you

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3 months ago

Great Run are looking for volunteers for the two events on 12th Jan 2019 - this is a great opportunity to be part of the event (and generate a few quid for the club as we get a donation for every volunteer).

All welcome - though under 16s are restricted from on-course duties, but can assist at the finish area.

Start & Finish volunteers required.
Volunteers Reg time – 9:15am. All volunteers will be finished by 15:00pm.

Did I also mention a hot food and drink voucher and, haud me back, a Castle Run Souvenir. And it's on the telly!

Interested? Contact moc.l1550654294iamel1550654294goog@1550654294581ri1550654294alcni1550654294sc1550654294 or catch me at training.

Colin. ...

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