Promoting Athletics in Orkney

Orkney Athletic and Running Club

4 days ago

𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐰𝐨: 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝

The second day of the North District Trophy in Aberdeen saw significantly more challenging weather conditions, with the wind up and down all day making it tougher for the U12 and U16 athletes competing today.

The highlight of the day was a pair of jumps gold medals for Jorgi Craigie (high jump) and Tyler Budge (long jump). Jorgi leapt to 1.44m, just 1cm shy of her personal best to win the North District gold medal on countback, having cleared 1.44 at the first attempt whilst her Inverness rival needed a second attempt, with both failing to clear 1.49. Kathryn Moar was the bronze medallist in the same event, clearing 1.39.

In the long jump, fluctuating winds caused most of the jumps on the day to be illegal for PB purposes, but all jumps count towards the standings on the day. Tyler’s first jump of 4.97m was his best, but four of his five jumps passed 4.80m so he showed impressive consistency in difficult conditions. Drew Miller and Dillon Hume were both jumping as guests from older age groups, but both passed the 5m mark, Drew jumping a monster 5.56m with his first - sadly wind illegal - jump and Dillon reaching 5.49m but also a wind legal 5.12m PB.

With medals only being awarded to U16 athletes at this event, there weren’t a lot of other opportunities for the team to add to the silvers Eli and James S won yesterday and Tristan’s bronze.

The day started with our first venture into the new U12 SuperTeams event with Livvy and Oliver taking part. In order to score as a club, you need four athletes competing, but they were able to score individually across the 75m, long jump and turbo javelin throw events: Livvy’s 3.15m long jump was a personal best, while both scored their highest points total in the 75m: Oliver finishing in 12.94s and Livvy 13.47.

Over the weekend, 33 OARC athletes from U12 to senior level took part in 76 events and recorded 37 personal bests - with a fair few more denied by illegal wind, or the performances being the first competition attempts at these events.

Highlights over the weekend would be Tyler and Jorgi’s gold medals, Sophie’s U14 gold pin and two Orkney U14 records, silvers for Eli, James S and Brooke and bronzes for Anya, Kathryn, James C, Imogen, Tristan & Ruby.

Everyone did themselves and the club proud with some excellent performances building on hard work in training: for some, that meant competing for medals, for others, trying something new or improving on something they’d done before. Well done to each and every one of them, and thank you to the coaches, parents and official who travelled with the team. Thank you also once more to EDJ Advisory for their very generous sponsorship and to Northlink for sponsoring the team’s travel. Thank you finally to Lorna Kemp for organising and all of the adults who traveled with the team for keeping us right over the weekend.

Day Two Results:

Superteams U12

Javelin
Livvy 8.13m
Oliver 8.42m

Long Jump
Livvy 3.15m PB
Oliver 3.16m

75m
Livvy 13.47s
Oliver 12.94s

U16B LJ
Tyler 4.97m Gold
James 3.89m

U18+M LJ
Drew 5.56m
Dillon 5.49m SEN (PB with 5.12m wind legal jump)

U18+W Shot
Lizzie 8.96m
Millie 7.93m

U16G HJ
Jorgi 1.44m Gold
Kathryn 1.39m Bronze

U16G 200m
Kathryn 29.19 Q
Final 28.56 PB 5th

U18+ 200m
Nuala 28.74
Millie 29.25 U20

U16B 200m
Tristan 27.56 Q
Alfie 29.08 Q
Tyler 29.12 q

Final
Tristan 26.30 PB 4th
Alfie 27.70 PB
Tyler DNS (medal ceremony)

U18+ 200m
Bobby 23.14 SEN
Connor 23.26 U20
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