British Athletics team announcement story Melanie Woods has become the third Scot picked for the Paralympic Games. The full Team Gb selection for the Paralympics in Paris has now been confirmed with 33 athletes selected. Ben Sandilands and Samantha Kinghorn were named in an initial selection waves (of 10 athletes) and now Melanie takes the […] The post Melanie picked for Paralympics in Paris; Jamie breaks Scottish Record for U20 Men at 800m appeared first on Scottish Athletics ..read more

The Olympics in Paris are only a few days away and we’re keen to start the countdown! A big focus on events in Scotland means we only have a certain amount of space to commit to the Games. But we plan to promote and share as much content as we can on the nine Scots […] The post Paris preview! Starting our countdown – Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie appeared first on Scottish Athletics ..read more

Podium 5K website Eight athletes will represent Scotland in a road race international opportunity next month in Wales. The Home Nations Podium 5k takes place in Cardiff on Saturday 24 August. And we are pleased to announce selected athletes to once again race at this event after a previous visit back in 2022. It’s brilliant to see two track and field Team Scotland Commonwealth Games athletes – Morag Millar and Jeny Selman – feature in this team. Morag was 18 years of age at Melbourne 2006 while Jenny competed at Birmingham 2022. Scotland Men: Peter Bradshaw (Inverclyde AC); Andrew Fyfe (E ..read more

scottishathletics are pleased to confirm extensive coverage of four days of national championship action at Grangemouth. We are teaming up with regular media partner Vinco to supply live stream footage from the 4J Age Group Champs on August 10/11 and from the 4J Senior/U17 Champs the following weekend. Entries remain open for both of these events at Grangemouth. Age Groups – closes 5pm on Thursday (July 25) Senior and U17 Champs – closes 5pm on Thursday 1 August As well as the live streams, Vinco will work with us to deliver short-form highlights of each day on our YouTube channel and social m ..read more

Enter Podfather 10k in Stirling The Scottish 10k Champs take place in Stirling in September. And such has been the enormous demand for places on Sunday 8 September that the Podfather 10k race will now close early. Organisers Central AC have already received more than 1200 entries and has now set a closing date of this weekend – Sunday 28 July. There is a limit of 1300 places. The surge in interest is terrific with the race having attracted 744 entries in 2022 and 1073 in 2023. So if you want to race in the Scottish 10K Champs please act now and enter the Podfather 10k via the link above. It is ..read more

Our 4J Age Group Champs  will take place at Grangemouth over the weekend of Saturday 10 August and Sunday 11 August. And entries are only open for another couple of days and will CLOSE ON THURSDAY (25 July) at 5pm. We’ve already received hundreds of entries and want to thank athletes, coaches, parents and clubs for that superb response. Your support for national championship events is appreciated. But there is room for more and we would love to see really big entry numbers across track and field events at Grangemouth next month to underline the vibrancy of our sport. If you are seeing you ..read more

Kilmarnock Harriers – Pathway & Community Development OfficerContract Length: 2 year contract Hours: 10 hours per week Salary: £7,280 (£14 per hour) More info on the vacancy Kilmarnock Harriers is a well-established, ambitious and successful athletics club based in East Ayrshire. Kilmarnock Harriers have a membership of over 300 athletes and are seeking to grow their capacity further and strengthen the club’s development. An exciting opportunity has arisen within Kilmarnock Harriers for a new post of Pathway and Community Development Officer. The new role will be responsible for overseeing ..read more

Club representatives at our Club Conference in Glasgow last autumn (photo by Bobby Gavin) scottishathletics are delighted to launch our new Club Committee Role Specific Training programme. Club Committee Role Specific Training is a suite of resources for the key committee positions that will help club volunteers to better understand the role they are undertaking. If you missed our launch webinar, you can access this here (using passcode 7u%CE74k) ‘We’re always keen to help our clubs and support the way they help deliver the sport,’ said David Fallon, Head of Development ‘The Club Committee Rol ..read more

The 4J Age Group Champs will take place over the weekend of Saturday 10 August and Sunday 11 August at Grangemouth. And entries are only open for one more week – through to Thursday 25 July at 5pm. We’ve already received hundreds of entries and want to thank athletes, coaches, parents and clubs for that superb response. If you are seeing your event as closed, please do register for the Waiting List as that is helpful to us as and when we may open up extra places (if we are able to do so). Enter U15s on Saturday 10 August Online entry Enter U20 events on Saturday and Sunday Online entry Enter U ..read more

Key information for Kilmarnock Our throwers head for the third and final Throws Grand Prix of the season on Saturday. The Ayrshire Athletes Arena in Kilmarnock is the venue this time after previous meets at Aberdeen and Grangemouth. Thanks to all those athletes and coaches who are supporting these events and the start-lists are available via the link below. Throws GP Good luck to those competing and thanks to our hosts at Kilmarnock Harriers, the Ayrshire Athletics Arena and of course as always to our scottishathletics Officials for making these events happen. +++ Photo by Simon Wootton Giffn ..read more