All Events
The 2025 season will be a little different with the International Island Games taking place between 13th-18th July in Orkney: much of our home schedule is structured around giving athletes the most possible chances to achieve qualifying standards and prepare for this event, with a lot of events early in the year as a result. The games also mean that the Stromness Shopping Week 10k and St. Magnus Marathon are both taking a year off due to demands on organisers’ time.
We also include regional and national events that we think will be of interest to our members, but these are non-OARC organised events and information may not be fully up to date. Scottish Athletics maintain an event calendar which will be more up to date for their events: https://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/events/championship-events/
| Rousay Lap 2025 | August 23, 2025 | READ MORE |
| Five Barriers Fun Run (non-OARC Orkney) | August 24, 2025 | READ MORE |
| Garden Square Track and Field Championships (w/5000m) | August 31, 2025 | READ MORE |
| Harray Half Marathon (non-OARC) | September 14, 2025 | READ MORE |
| Dounby Pharmacy 10k | September 21, 2025 | READ MORE |
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🏴SCOTTISH OUTDOOR AGE GROUP AND 10k CHAMPIONSHIPS🏴
Tyler Budge was competing at his first national level competition…and he only went and won🥇! U13 Long Jump Champion with a huge 45cm PB of 4.89m(0.3). This catapults Tyler up to second in the Scottish rankings as well.
Emily McArthur won her U20 400m heat in 59.09; she then went on to take her second national medal of the weekend, silver in the final in 58.19🥈- a brilliant achievement!
Abi Coltherd won her U20 100m heat in a PB of 12.61(-0.4); she then went on to run another PB of 12.59(0.5) to finish third in her semi-final and qualify for the final. Abi crossed the line in fourth in the final in 12.73(-1.6). Making both sprint finals is a great achievement.
Ava Luke came sixth in the U20 1500m with another super PB of 4:41.92 - that’s over twenty seconds faster than her first 1500m of this season - a huge improvement!
William Sichel came first in the V70 age group at the Scottish 10k Championships in Edinburgh this morning🥇. He ran the course in 48:19, which creates a first V70 Orkney Record for 10k.
What a weekend for Orkney’s athletes! Congratulations to all of you and your coaches!👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻
Thanks to Susan and Kerri for the photos📸
Wow, amazing results everyone 😍👏
🏴🇬🇧SCOTTISH AGE GROUP CHAMPIONSHIPS - DAY ONE and NATIONAL ATHLETICS LEAGUE🇬🇧🏴
Six OARC athletes were competing at the Scottish Outdoor Age Group Championships in Aberdeen today.
Emily McArthur won bronze in the U20 800m🥉🥳. She came second in her heat, in a time of 2:18.01, whilst Ava Luke came second in the other heat in 2:19.50. This saw them both through to the final. Emily came over the line in 2:15.80 to take the bronze, and Ava finished in fourth in 2:20.18. Both lasses will take to the track again tomorrow - Emily in the 400m and Ava in the 1500m.
Abi Coltherd was competing in the U20 200m. She had three fantastic races - winning her heat in 25.31; coming second in her semi-final in 25.72; then fifth in the final in 25.29. She goes again tomorrow in the 100m.
Lucy Kenyon threw in the U20 javelin. She finished in fourth, with a top throw of 31.24m.
Nuala Webb ran in the U15 100m and 200m, making it through to the semi-finals in both. She was third in her 100m heat in 13.92, then seventh in the semi-final in 13.91. In the 200m, Nuala was fifth in her heat in 29.58, then sixth in the semi-final in 29.39.
Eli Thornton was competing in his first ever national level event. He finished fifth in his U15 800m heat in 2:23.72.
Amy Davis was also competing today, as she was selected to represent Glasgow Jaguars in the National Athletics League at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. She had a brilliant experience, jumping alongside GB heptathlete Jade O’Dowda, and Amy came 6th with a jump of 1.62m.
Congratulations to all of the athletes and their coaches.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 We are very proud of all of you and look forward to tomorrow’s action.
Congratulations everyone.
Well done to all athletes.
🌟WOMEN’S RELAYS - ORKNEY 2025❤️💛💙
Who was the most excited person at the track there!! Brilliant🤣
Sending positive vibes to all of our athletes who are heading to Aberdeen for the Scottish Age Group Championships this weekend. We hope you have a great time and see the benefits of all of the hard work you have put in.💪🏻❤️
Plenty of photos, please!📸
📣ENTRIES OPEN FOR DOUNBY PHARMACY 10k📣
The events are coming thick and fast! Thank you very much to Dounby Pharmacy for generous sponsorship of this 10k road race.
🗓️ Sunday 21st September
🕚 11am
📍Starts at Dounby Community School
✅ Entries open now until 14th September
🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♂️ Come and have a go at this nice, flat course!
➡️Enter here: www.entrycentral.com/dounby10k
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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.