16 young Harriers (U13/U15) had a fantastic training session on Friday evening at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena. For the first time this year the weather has been very welcoming, which possibly helped to make this training session a very good preparation for the upcoming West District next weekend. I personally…
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Our Wednesday pole vault group has been making good progress and preparation are going well for the second Youth Development League match on 2nd June, which will be held at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena. Our current pole vault group consists of 3 Kilmarnock athletes and 3 Ayr Seaforth athletes: Hannah Bartl, Leigh…
On Thursday, February 7th, seven Kilmarnock athletes competed at the annual Indoor Scottish Schools’ at the Glasgow Emirates Arena. These athletes ranged through 60m to high jump. In under 16, Kuda Tapatapa (St. Joseph’s) ran a fast first heat of 7.86s and came third to qualify for the semi-finals. In…
There has been a good turnout at the third javelin workshop at the Ayrshire Athletics Arena despite the wintry conditions with a total of 28 athletes and 14 coaches taken part, some from as far as Montrose, Inverness and Caithness. Kilmarnock Harriers helped to organise the workshop, competition and supplied…
On January 2nd, a decent turnout of Kilmarnock athletes took the traditional trip to the Beith Road Races. With various distances per age groups, the Seniors take on 4 Laps of the anti clockwise course, a total of 4.8 miles. Mentions go to Keith Haining (1st V45) Lindsay McMahon (1st…
Kilmarnock Harriers pole vault group travelled to Grangemouth stadium on Wednesday 1st May to compete for the first time in this event. The group consisting of Evie Bartl, Cara Baillie (both U15) and coach Harald felt fairly confident after the last training sessions, where all athletes registered good clearances over…
In the 3000m for seniors, Iain Connell ran a strong of 9:32.4 placing first with Murray McDonald in 2nd clocking a time of 11:22.4 and also Kenny Wales in 3rd finishing with 12:32.6. For the senior women, Kara Tait ran well with her time of 10:35.5 with Lindsay McMahon shortly…
On a cold, blustery night, many Kilmarnock Harrier athletes travelled up to Linwood, Glasgow to compete at the Dunren Open Graded meeting. Events ranged from 100m through to javelin. In the 100m, 15 athletes competed all over 8 heats: In the first heat, Roy Shankland (U20), Scott Young(U20) and Kuda…
7 members of the junior section, U15/U17 age groups, competed at the National Cross Country at Falkirk’s Callander Park and gained valuable experience at this national event, as for a few this was the first time they competed at this high level. Among the female Harriers it was Claire Orr, who was first…
Results are now available at: click here A big thumbs up to everyone, who contributed to the huge success at the Dumfries Open Meeting this Sunday (21st April). I personally have been attending meetings at Dumfries with my own girls for the last 5 years but this was something special. In…
