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Yesterday's St Magnus Marathon was another fantastically organised event: congratulations to all the organisers, to everyone to who took part in the marathon or relay, and well done to John Hammond and Rebecca Learmonth who were the first male and female finishers. Pictures from Aaron Budge Photography below.
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Emily McArthur’s first outing in a Scotland U20 jersey at this weekend’s England Athletics U20 & Senior Championships resulted in an 8th placed finish in the final of the U20 Women’s 800m earlier this afternoon. The race went off at a rapid pace and Emily’s legs were perhaps a little heavy from yesterday’s semi final, but she dug deep to finish in a time of 2:15.79, a little down on her 2:12.40 in the heat. Emily did herself, her family and Orkney proud this weekend and we hope this won’t be the last we see of her in national colours.
It was high class line up with the podium filled with exceptional athletes: the race was won by 2024 Olympian Phoebe Gill in 2:00.49, with European U20 1500m Champion Lyla Belshaw second in 2:03.91 and Shaikira King third in 2:04.21. It’s not perhaps the best metric, but if the top three athletes in your race all have lengthy Wikipedia articles, you’re probably in good company!
Congratulations to Emily and thank you to her team of supporters over the weekend - particularly Mags for flying down at short notice to coach Emily at the culmination of all their hard work. Even coaches need their own support teams, so we should also say thank you to OARC’s own Molly Tulloch for helping out Nigel at Avalon this weekend and allowing Mags to be elsewhere. In addition to Julia and Tom who were there yesterday, today uncle Rob Flett was on the scene to secure the crucial BBC Orkney exclusive along with his partner Susie.
Elsewhere, OARC’s Ava Luke ran an excellent 18:32 5000m in Stirling, well inside the Island Games qualification standard in humid, hot and windy conditions. Best of luck too to the many OARC members and friends who will be taking part in tomorrow’s St Magnus Marathon, relay and fun run. The weather looks okay, although we all know not to trust St Magnus weekend by now!
Huge Congratulations !
Pauline Milton, Emily marches on, show Con. Well done, Ava, too.
Congratulations Emily. It was lovely to watch you race in person and chat with you and your coach in Bedford. It was also 1st trip for us and Luc to Bedford. No doubt in my mind that you will go and smash the next steps of your journey in the sport!
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Got to be in it ti win it. A very exciting and solid outing. The first of many for sure! Very well done ππΎ x.
Amazing! Well done Emily xx
Absolutely amazing Emily!!!!! Huge well done. Can’t wait to see what’s next! K x
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Well done Emily xx
Well done Emily.
I did look yesterday without any luck but there appears to be a live stream of today's England Athletics U20s. We expect Emily's 800m final to be at 15:05 this afternoon.
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This summer there's a lot of athletics adjacent activities being delivered through the OIC Summer of Sport programme: summerofsport.orkneyislands.uk/ including ASN Athletics, boot camps and strength and conditioning sessions at Picky. If you're already a member, on our waiting lists or doing Run, Jump, Throw through Picky it's definitely worth checking out!
I phoned Picky about this a week ago and sadly it was already fully booked.
Entries are now open for the Scottish Sea Farms Stomness Shopping Week 10k (SSFSSW10k for almost short) on Saturday 25th July via Entry Central. This is always a lovely race during a great evening with lots of great refreshment opportunities afterwards, so please join us!
OARC Scottish Sea Farms Stromness Shopping Week 10k
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Stromness 10K Event Saturday 25th July 2026 - 11.00am Starting point and registration: The Ferry road, next to Ferry terminal. Entry cost: Β£6 OARC members Β£3 OARC/SA Β£11 Non members Β£8 with SA mem...
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As well as providing regular athletic instruction and training sessions, one of the key aims of OARC is to promote pathways to performance and as part of this, the Club organises and participates in a range of home and away competitions throughout the year.