ATHLETICS

TOUR OF FIFE The Tour of Fife (five races in five days) opened on a four-mile course over the West Sands, St Andrews. Cambuslang Harrier Ben Hukins headed the men. Leading lady was Carnegie’s Kristin Lownie in 26th. Leading results: 1 B Hukins (Cambuslang) 24.03, 2 C O’Brien (Corstorphine) 24.38, 3 R Dunlop (Dundee RR) 24.43, 4 A O’Connor (Fife AC) 24.45, 5 A Leech (Dundee Hawkhill) 24.49, 6 B McLaren (Leven Las Vegas) 24.55, 7 D hale (St Andrews Univ) 25.03, 8 O Lever (Lomond HR) 25.08, 9 F Ingledew (Fife AC) 1st junior 25.18, 10 J Logan (Fife AC) 25.23, 11 K Gorman (Fife AC) 25.30, 12 B Lees (Lothian RC) 1st over-50 25.55, 13 I Wallace (Leven Las Vegas) 1st veteran 26.01…47 G Barker (Fife AC) 1st over-60 28.22, 98 S Cromar (Dundee Hawkhill) 1st over 70. 34.18. Women: 1 K Lownie (Carnegie) 26.58, 2 L Andrew (Dundee and Angus CaniCross) 27.03, 3 E Omand (Dundee RR) 27.05, 4 J McEvoy (Calderglen) 27.08, 5 J Cruickshanks (Fife AC) 27.14, 6 M Stone (Fife AC) 27.23, 7 I Burnett (Carnegie) 1st over-60 27.29, 8 R Van Rensburg (Fife AC) 1st veteran 27.31, 9 S Ridley (Edinburgh AC) 1st over-50 28.04, 10 J Massie (Dundee RR) 28.06, 11 A McNeilly (Dundee RR) 2nd veteran 29.25, 12 C Grant (Dundee and Angus Cani-Cross) 29.38, 13 F Callaghan (Dundee RR) 29.51, 14 I Bracegirdle (Fife AC) 1st over-60 30.01. Over-70 – J Askey (Fife AC) 50.44. BRIG BASH Five-mile road race, Bridge of Earn: 1 I Macdonald (Edinburgh AC) 27.08, 2 C Somerville (PH Racing) 27.18, 3 D Jubb (PH Racing) 27.26, 4 B Gibson (Dundee Hawkhill) 1st veteran 27.43, 5 S Robertson (Perth RR) 2nd veteran 27.59, 6 J Peebles (PH Racing) 28.16, 7 Annabel Simpson (Fife AC) 28.36, 8 D Monaghan (PH Racing) 28.57, 9 D Scott (Kinross RR) 3rd veteran 29.10, 10 N Cameron (Central AC) 4th veteran 29.12, 11 D Ryan (Perth RR) 5th veteran 29.18, 12 G Irons (Dundee Hawkhill) 29.36…16 W Mackay (Strathearn) 1st over-50 29.59, 58 E Norton (PH Racing) 1st over-60 34.27, 82 J Moran (unatt) 1st over-70 35.43. Women: 1 A Simpson (Fife AC) 28.36, 2 J Wetton (Central) 30.58, 3 M Western (PH Racing) 1st over-50 31.20, 4 L Fraser (Edinburgh AC) 1st veteran 32.31, 5 C Jones (Perth RR) 32.40, 6 K Dempsey (Edinburgh AC) 32.56, 7 P Brown (Dundee Hawkhill) 32.31, 8 E MacCorquidale (Wee County H) 33.32, 9 S Hutt (Kinross RR) 33,41, 10 G Sangster (Dundee RR) 33.45, 11 F Nisbet (Kinross RR) 33.59, 12 J Moar (Edinburgh AC) 34.15, over60 M Martin (Fife AC)36.58, over-70 M Robertson (Dundee RR) 44.27.