Glasgow Gaelic School Sports Blog : Glasgow Schools' Athletics Championships Results

Our 2019 athletics team have absolutely smashed it!!! Two years ago we had our record medal haul of 15 medals at the Glasgow Schools' Athletics Championships, this year....18!!! Last year we got 3 golds, this year an unbelievable 9!! Half of our medals were golds! The two day championships was a fantastic advert for our school, the pupils put tons of effort in and were so supportive of each other across the age groups. It was pleasing to see a bigger pool of senior athletes turn out for the school, some for the last time after competing every year in these championships and their efforts were awarded with lots of medals, season bests and some PBs too. Andrew Carey and Shona Carey finished with Silvers in both the 1500m and 800m respectively. Eilidh McDougall an ever present medal winner again finished with a medal finishing 3rd in the 100m her 5th at these championships. Annabel MacDonald added to her 3 previous medals by finishing 3rd in the 300m, Iver Campbell has been excellent at the Glasgow Schools' Championships and again won Gold this time as a first year senior in the 100m and... Grace Thompson won Gold in the Senior Girls Discus throw. However I can't not talk about the S1s, never before have we had so many medals at the S1 age group. Isla Thoms became our first ever DOUBLE GOLD medalists winning the 100m and the Shot Putt. Ewan Campbell having just seen his brother win the 100m, stormed to victory in the S1 100m final making it the first family gold pairing at SGG. Maisie Hinks won silver in the Javelin too and her points for her silver added to Isla's medals resulted in the SGG S1 girls team finishing 3rd in the medal table which is a first for the school to finish in the top 3. It was really pleasing to see others perform exceptionally well, McKenzie Morrison reclaiming the title of Discus Champion making it two in a row for him. Lucie Mills was rewarded for all her hard work finishing 2nd in the 800m which is amazing considering she never qualified for the final last year. Millie Soutar threw a PB to win gold in the Shot Putt. Sophie Pettifor winning gold in the Discus to win back the title she won in S1. Sarah Bonad won the 200m final this year in an exciting race with the top two well clear of the field. Peggy-Nan Rodger has been a consistently good performer for the school in many an endurance event but had never won an individual medal until securing bronze in the 1500m. Ceitidh MacDonald won Silver in Javelin and Cameron Weir bronze to add to his medal last year in the same event. To add to this record haul we had more finalists than ever before but most importantly we saw 100% effort from all our competitors. Thank you to all our athletes for making the championships such a memorable occasion.

McKenzie Morrison S2 Discus Gold