Habbie bags gold for university team
Kilbarchan AAC athlete Callum Matthews was on international duty this week as he represented the Scottish University and College Athletics side in Dublin.
And the distance runner was in winning form as he clinched victory in the men’s 1,500m race.
Matthews took top spot ahead of his Irish counterparts John Moroney and Eoin Murphy thanks to a time of 4:11:57.
In the points competition, the men’s team finished a single point behind Ireland, 99 points to 98. Ireland’s women’s team won by eight points, 105 points to 97, giving Ireland an overall victory by the very narrow margin of nine points, 204 points to 195.
But there was still a number of impressive showings from the Scotland squad at a rain-lashed Morton Stadium.
Despite several days of stunning weather in the run up to the event, torrential rain on Saturday morning meant that the start of the meet had to be delayed by two hours.
The delay never appeared to affect the Scottish athletes, captained by Marcus Morton, and alongside Matthews, there were further wins for Krishawn Aiken, Lewis Brown, Fearghus Thomson, Peter Muirhead, Lewis McGuire, Michael Tarnewsky and Fraser O’Rourke.
In the women’s side, there were yet more wins for Katie Patullo, Emily Craig, Hannah Cameron, Carolyn Harvey, Kristen Mullen and Stephanie Fowler.
Meanwhile, both the men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams won their respective races.
The women’s 4x100m relay team also won an exciting race. The men’s 4x100m team narrowly lost by two hundredths of a second.
A scottishathletics spokesman said: “The highlight of the whole event was the tremendous team spirit shown by all of the athletes under the guidance of team manager Janelle McGurk.”