Pupils from four schools around Shetland came down to Clickimin on Friday for the isles’ county sports day.

The secondary 2-4 athletes from Aith Junior High School, Brae High School, Sand­wick Junior High School and Anderson High School endured scorching conditions while com­peting in a range of events including sprints, 1,500 metres, javelin and long…

Two of Shetland’s most talented athletes shone through at the Scottish Schools Athletics Championships in Grangemouth at the weekend.

Shetlands athletes are beginning to show the benefits of a hard winter’s training with a number of perform­ances that place high in the 2009 Scottish rankings.

Elaine Park

Age: 31
Birthplace: Aberdeen
Medal tally: None yet

A successful island games in Åland would be. . .

At least one 40 metre plus throw in the hammer and I’ll be happy.

I mainly got into athletics because . . .

I could run quite fast when I was younger and I was…

Nineteen Shetland athletes took home 25 medals from the North District Championships in Inverness on Saturday.

Shetland’s nine gold medals performances came from Lauren Odie in the under-15 girls’ 800 metres, Faye Richardson in the under-20 women’s 100m, Jenny Richardson in the under-20 women’s 200m, Eilidh Peterson in both the under-20 women’s triple jump and…

By NEIL RIDDELL

With only six weeks left until the action gets under way, Shetland’s 93-strong squad of athletes and officials for this year’s island games competition in Åland has been named.

One of the most striking details about the squad is that there is no place for runner Claire Wilson, one of the outstanding…

Shetland Amateur Athletics Club hosted a new development event at the Clickimin track recently with nearly 70 youngsters taking part in the spring festival.

The competitors were split between senior (15 and over) and junior (nine to 14-year-olds). The seniors consisted principally of island games athletes and the junior inter-county squad and they concentrated on…

Last week’s overall junior inter-county victory over Orkney contained many outstanding individual performances. One of those who made their mark was GARETH ROBERTSON from Burra, joint captain of the athletics team. He won both the 100 and 200 metres individual sprints, and anchored the 4×100 metres team home in their record-breaking victory.

My first taste…

SIXTEEN Shetland athletes competed in the recent open graded athletics match in Inverness, which incorporated the HIPPO initiative the club has been participating in this season.

Sophie May Leyland followed her Scottish Schools high jump performance with a first time clear­ance at 1.40m to equal her newly-set personal best to finish first.

Megan Smith took…