Gold Coast relay team lead Records now confirmed

Wednesday 20th June 2018

Scotland’s 4 x 400m Women celebrate in Australia after a National Record for (L-R) Zoey Clark, Kirsten McAslan, Lynsey Sharp and Eilidh Doyle (photo by Bobby Gavin)

A ll Scottish Records listed on scotstats.net

If it feels like Scottish Records have been tumbling constantly throughout 2018 – so far- then the assumption is backed up by statistics.

And scottishathletics are grateful to our Records Committee, which works closely with the Track and Field Commission, for keeping up with the flow of top performances by athletes of all ages.

A whole host of those have now been through the verification process and were duly ratified by the scottishathletics Board on June 11.

Beth Dobbin rightly commanded headlines when she broke Sandra Whittaker’s Women’s National 200m Record with a run of 22.84 for Edinburgh AC in the British Women’s League – some 34 years after Sandra’s run at the 1984 Olympics.

That’s just one of almost 20 new Records now rubber-stamped and confirmed on the scottishathletics ‘books’ (with a second run of 22.83 by Beth in Stockholm now ‘in the pipeline’).

The National Women’s 4 x 400m Relay Record is the other main Senior mark to be achieved over the past few months.

Alisha Rees, the GB Junior international, broke her own National U20 Record for 100m on the same day as club-mate Dobbin in that UK Women’s League match at Eton.

At age group level, the likes of Meghan Porterfield, Scott Brindley, Keira Waddell and Ellie O’Hara have all impressed in throws, CE and jumps.

The Records booklet on our History section of this site will be up-dated in due course to reflect these ratification decisions.

Record-breakers! 20 new marks ratified in March

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Alisha Rees (left) and Beth Dobbin celebrate at Eton after both breaking National Records which have now been ratified (photo via Twitter)

INDOOR

1) U13 Girls Shot – 12.04 metres, Meghan Porterfield (VP-Glasgow), Emirates Arena, 10 March 2018. Scottish U13 Championships. Previous record: 11.91, Porterfield, 2017.

2) U13 Boys 800 Metres – 2:15.33, Lachlan Buchanan (Inverness H), Emirates Arena, 10 March 2018. Scottish U13 Championships. Previous record: 2:19.89, Finlay Ross, 2017.

3) U13 Boys 1500 Metres – 4:43.23, Finlay Ross (Harmeny AC), Emirates Arena, 10 March 2018. Scottish U13 Championships. Previous record: 4:44.40, Jack Patton, 2017

4) U13 Girls 200 Metres – 27.21, Erin Ramsay (Ayr Seaforth AC), Emirates Arena, 10 March 2018. Scottish U13 Championships (semi-final)

5) U13 Girls 200 Metres – 26.83, Erin Ramsay (Ayr Seaforth AC), Emirates Arena, 10 March 2018. Scottish U13 Championships (final). Previous record: 27.26, Alyson Bell, 2016

6) U13 Girls 60 Metres Hurdles – 9.65, Jenna Hilditch (VP-Glasgow), Emirates Arena, 10 March 2018. Scottish U13 Championships. Previous record: 9.66, Katie Purves, 2009

7) U13 Girls High Jump – 1.56, Mya McMahon (Dunfermline T&F), Emirates Arena, 10 March 2018. Scottish U13 Championships. Previous record: 1.56, McMahon, 2017 and 2018

8) U15 Boys 300 Metres – 38.38, Dean Springett (Whitemoss AC), Emirates Arena, 11 March 2018. Scottish U15 Championships. Previous record: 38.40, Max Leslie, 2016

9) U17 Women Triple Jump – 12.00 metres (and 11.52, 11.70, 11.87 during event), Ellie O’Hara (Edinburgh AC), Emirates Arena, 10 March 2018. Scottish U20 Championships. Previous record: 11.34, Rachel Hogg, 1998

10) U17 Men Pole Vault – 4.46 metres, Scott Brindley (North Ayrshire AC), Sheffield, 11 March 2018. England Athletics Combined Events Championships. Previous record: 4.45, Gregor Maclean, 2008

11) U17 Men Heptathlon – 5,086 points, Scott Brindley, Sheffield, 10-11 March 2018. England Athletics Combined Events Championships. (7.34, 6.69, 11.52, 1.83, 8.49, 4.46, 2:52.50). Previous record: 4988, Brindley, 2018.

OUTDOOR

12) Senior Women National 4×400 Metres Relay – 3:29.18, Scotland (Zoey Clark 52.1, Kirsten McAslan 52.6, Lynsey Sharp 53.35, Eilidh Doyle 51.03), Gold Coast, Australia, 14 April 2018. Commonwealth Games. Previous record: 3:30.91, Scotland (Nicol, Child, Evans, McConnell), 2010

13) U13 Girls Shot – 12.19, Meghan Porterfield (VP-Glasgow), Grangemouth, 22 April 2018. UK Youth Development League. Previous record: 11.91, Porterfield, 2017

14) U17 Women Javelin (500g) – 44.84, Keira Waddell (Edinburgh AC), Carlisle, 29 April 2018. UK Youth Development League. Previous record: 43.67, Lisa O’Neill, 2015

15) U17 Women Triple Jump – 11.86 (+1.3), Ellie O’Hara (Edinburgh AC), Grangemouth, 13 March 2018, East District Championships. Previous record: 11.81, Fiona Hunter, 1995

16) U17 Women’s Triple Jump – 12.14 (+1.6) (and 11.99/+0.0), Ellie O’Hara (Edinburgh AC), Bedford, 28 May 2018, Bedford International Games. Previous record: 11.81, Fiona Hunter, 1995.

17) U20 Men’s Decathlon (Junior implements) – 6,625 points, Joel McFarlane (Arbroath & District AC), Bedford, 26-27 May 2018, England Athletics Championships

18) Senior Women National 200 metres – 22.84 seconds (+0.6), Beth Dobbin (Edinburgh AC), Eton, 2 June 2018. UK Women’s League Premiership. Previous record: 22.98, Sandra Whittaker, 1984.

19) U20 Women 100 metres – 11.59 seconds (+1.0), Alisha Rees (Edinburgh AC), Eton, 2 June 2018. UK Women’s League Premiership. Previous record: 11.62, Rees, 2017.

With thanks to Arnold Black and the scottishathletics Records Committee