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28/05/2020

SCOTLAND'S OLDEST CLUBS
With all relevant caveats
My latest for the Scottish Athletics website:

Clydesdale Harriers ticket image via the scottishdistancerunninghistory.net website By Arnold Black, scottishathletics Historian With Greenock Glenpark

08/05/2020

ICYMI Two new pages have been added to the website and work is continuing to develop them further.

The road racing results section now has collected results from over 30 races covering the winners of the events for the years from 2010 to 2020 (yes, some races have been run this year!). Work continues on this and races are being added regularly. Once this has been completed, then the information from 2000 to 2009 will be added for each event.

I have also added a Trophies page to record the winners of prestigious trophies such as the Coronation Cup, Crabbie Cup, Donald McNab Robertson Trophy and others. This is incomplete and research is continuing so if anyone can help with any of the missing information, please get in touch.
You can see these by clicking on the links in the article on the home page.

15/04/2020

Something different for these different times. Recognising the outstanding work of those who have photographed Scottish athletes over the years, I am delighted to add galleries of the work of five of these talented photographers to the SATS website. Spanning the 1980s to the present day, you can find a small sample of photographs taken by John Scott and Graham MacIndoe (1980s), Roddy Simpson (1990s), Gordon Gillespie (2000s) and Bobby Gavin (present day). Thanks to the photographers and please respect their copyright.

And happy to display work from other photographers and other eras if they would like to get in touch.

02/04/2020

EDIT - Actually posted this on the wrong page! However - this is part of a daily run of Scots on AW covers that is being posted in the SATS Scottish Athletics Network group. If you haven't joined the group yet - why not?!

COVER STARS NO 22 - IAN McCAFFERTY
It seems only fitting that a cover photo of Ian McCafferty should follow one by Lachie Stewart. The two athletes go hand in hand in my mind.

In 1967 McCafferty set a European best of 8:36.4 for the indoor 2 miles when winning the AAA indoor title by a massive 18.8 seconds.

29/03/2020

Latest on the SATS website - the athlete archives have been updated and now cover 1959 to 2019. Over 11,000 athletes who have appeared in the Scottish rankings are documented.
https://www.scotstats.net/archive-1/the-athletes/

And see the story of the latest two athletes to declare for Scotland - on the home page.

28/03/2020

The SATS Challenge Track & Field Club of the Year table is up with the top 50 clubs shown. Congratulations to our winners - Edinburgh AC - who performed strongly across all age-groups, and especially the seniors and under 20s.

Victoria Park City of Glasgow were greatly helped by the strength of their women's section which took them into second place overall and Giffnock North AC, who were there or thereabouts in each age-group were the third team to amass 1000 points.

Pitreavie AAC were consistent across all the age-groups to take fourth. Honourable mentions, too, to some of the emerging and smaller clubs - Team East Lothian in 11th, North Ayrshire AC in 12th, and Dunfermline Track and Field Club in 16th.

For the first time, we look at rankings for the track and field clubs in the SATS Challenge. The approach is straightforward : from our annual athlete rankings we've awarded the athlete's club 10 points if their athlete is top of their event rankings, down to 1 point for the 10th placed athlete.

27/03/2020

The scores are in for the senior clubs SATS Challenge and congratulations to the runaway winners Edinburgh AC. But how did your club fare? See the senior tables at

For the first time, we look at rankings for the track and field clubs in the SATS Challenge. The approach is straightforward : from our annual athlete rankings we've awarded the athlete's club 10 points if their athlete is top of their event rankings, down to 1 point for the 10th placed athlete.

25/03/2020

We've reached the under-20 age-group in the SATS Challenge and things are beginning to change. There were strong showings from Aberdeen, Central, Edinburgh, Pitreavie among others.and a first-time top 10 finish for Lasswade. How did your club do?

For the first time, we look at rankings for the track and field clubs in the SATS Challenge. The approach is straightforward : from our annual athlete rankings we've awarded the athlete's club 10 points if their athlete is top of their event rankings, down to 1 point for the 10th placed athlete.

24/03/2020

The closest finish yet in our SATS Challenge Club of the Year titles with the under-17 top two being separated by just three points. Three clubs who hadn't featured in the top 20 in the younger age-groups place in the top 10.

See how your club ranked in our under-17 challenge:

For the first time, we look at rankings for the track and field clubs in the SATS Challenge. The approach is straightforward : from our annual athlete rankings we've awarded the athlete's club 10 points if their athlete is top of their event rankings, down to 1 point for the 10th placed athlete.

22/03/2020

On the website today, the Club of the Year SATS Challenge moves on to the under-15s. 45 clubs gathered points - see how your club finished https://www.scotstats.net/rankings-1/sats-challenge/club-of-the-year/

And our latest athlete bio is of Jenny Smart, the only Scot to feature in an Olympic Games women's 100 metres. And you can watch that 1960 Olympic 100m on the page.

If you're not following our AW Cover Stars photos, then join up to our SATS Scottish Athletics Network. Jenny features today, as no. 10 in the series.

For the first time, we look at rankings for the track and field clubs in the SATS Challenge. The approach is straightforward : from our annual athlete rankings we've awarded the athlete's club 10 points if their athlete is top of their event rankings, down to 1 point for the 10th placed athlete.

21/03/2020

*** SATS CHALLENGE IS BACK ***

Each year we produce our annual rankings covering seniors, under-20s, under-17s, under-15s and under-13 age-groups. You can find them on our annual rankings page.

Today, we are using these rankings to run a new SATS Challenge Club of the Year 2019 competition.

If you ranked first in the rankings, your club will score 10 points; if you ranked second, your club will score nine points ... and if you ranked tenth, your club will score one point.

We start with the under-13 age-group and you can see the results on our Club of the Year page.

For the first time, we look at rankings for the track and field clubs in the SATS Challenge. The approach is straightforward : from our annual athlete rankings we've awarded the athlete's club 10 points if their athlete is top of their event rankings, down to 1 point for the 10th placed athlete.