Central Athletic Club’s Ian Horsburgh started the year off in style with a win in the 151st running of the traditional New Year Sprint Handicap held at Musselburgh racecourse on 1 January 2020. Ian had proved his fitness with a silver medal 200 Metre performance in...
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Central AC Christmas handicap
Cameron Milne finishing the fastest lap Central Athletic Club’s Christmas Handicap moved away from its traditional evening slot to be held in daylight on Christmas Eve attracting a field of 26 enthusiastic runners. This year it was Under-15 Girls Summer MacLean and...
Central club cross country – 21 December 2019
The second race in the Central Athletic Club’s 2019-20 Cross-Country Series was held in mild weather conditions on Saturday 21 December in the Laigh Hills Park, Dunblane. A testing course of some 1.5 kilometres saw a field of almost 40 youngsters taking time out from...
Central AC at the European cross country championships, Lisbon – 8 December 2019
Andrew Butchart celebrates with his parents Central’s Andrew Butchart tasted GB success as he led the British Senior Men’s team to gold in the European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon. Andrew made a significant personal contribution to the team victory for the...
East District cross country championships – 7 December 2019 – Piperdam, Dundee
Central AC’s honours list from the annual East District Cross Country Championships continued to grow with four individual wins and a fine array of team championship medals. A new course at the Piperdam leisure resort near Dundee proved a testing environment for the...
Schools Pentathlon International, Emirates Arena, Glasgow, 30 November 2019
Erik Escala, Katherine Fowler and Scott Hopper were all on international duty at the Schools Pentathlon International at the Emirates Arena on Saturday. The Central AC trio were representing Scotland as they took on top-class teams of all-round athletes from Ireland,...
Airthrey Castle club cross country – 30 November 2019
The first race in the Central Athletic Club’s 2019-20 cross country series was held on Saturday 30 November in frosty conditions with bright sunshine, on a flat course of some 2 kilometres at Airthrey Castle, Stirling University with a field of 27 runners braving the...
Broxburn and Liverpool cross country – 23 September
Central AC had a busy weekend both on the country and the award stage: two athletes excelling in the UK cross country trials in Liverpool, and the club winning the Off-Track Club of the Year title at the annual Scottish Athletics awards dinner. Showing how that award...
British and Irish Masters International Cross Country, Aintree
Central AC had three runners in a 70 strong Scottish team taking on all three home countries and the Republic of Ireland in the annual British and Irish Masters International Cross Country match over the flat racecourse setting of Aintree. Scott Brember took a silver...
Scottish short-course cross country championships – 9 September 2019
Central AC senior men continued their winning ways at the Scottish Short Course Cross Country Championships over a fast 4 kilometre course in Kirkcaldy. Andrew Butchart took his third title at this short distance, to add to the two over the long course championships...