Scotland teams selected for London Mini Marathon

Monday 20th September 2021

Scotland U15 Girls at the 2018 version of the London Mini Marathon

Mini Marathon report from April 2019

Scotland teams will compete at the Virgin Money Mini Marathon event in London next month.

And we’re delighted to now confirm our team selections for the races on Sunday 3 October.

Four teams of six athletes have been picked for the U17 and U15 age groups in London and it is great to be able to offer this opportunity to 24 young athletes.

Many congratulations to all the athletes selected for the London Mini Marathon and to their coaches and families as well as the clubs working hard to develop these young athletes.

We make it 14 different clubs represented with large selections for Giffnock North AC (five) and Team East Lothian (three) while Aberdeen AAC have three, including two from one family via picks for brothers Kai and Rhys Crawford.

Scotland U17 Women:

Louisa Brown (Garscube Harriers); Katie Johnson (Edinburgh AC); Erin McFarlane (Pitreavie AAC); Hannah Ryding (Giffnock North AC); Maja Thomson (Team East Lothian); Valencia Wright (Giffnock North AC)

Scotland U17 Men:

Corey Campbell (Team East Lothian); Kai Crawford (Aberdeen AAC); Cameron Deverill (Giffnock North AC); Fraser Gilmour (VP-Glasgow); Reuben Macdonald (Giffnock North AC); Hamish McKay (Aberdeen AAC)

Scotland U15 Girls:

Millie McLelland-Brooks (Banchory Stonehaven); Charlotte MacPhie (Corstorphine AAC); Olivia Robbins (Team East Lothian); Katie Sandilands (Fife AC); Orlaith Shepherd (Edinburgh AC); Amy Teasdale (Kilbarchan AAC)

Scotland U15 Boys:

Rhys Crawford (Aberdeen AAC); Luke Cuilliton (Falkirk Victoria Harriers); Kieran Fulton (Moorfoot Runners); Andrew McWilliam (Lasswade AAC); Oliver Patton (Kilbarchan AAC); Craig Shennan (Giffnock North AC)

With time constraints after decisions from the event organisers, we were unable to stage trial races with selections based on all known form at 1500m and 3000m distances on the track.

The races on October 3 are over the final 2.6k of the marathon course.