Sport / Sporting round up 28 April
CHARITY fundraisers have helped to raise over £100,000 for three worthwhile causes after tackling the London Marathon in sweltering conditions on Sunday.
Team Jackson’s dedicated group of nine runners took on the 26.2 mile course in aid of Children with Cancer UK, raising almost £59,000 so far.
Jordan Hunter, Lowrie Simpson, Thea Groat, Jordan Thomason, Joe Leask, Dominic Mann, Scott Anderson and Brett and Maurice Haining chose to run the marathon after the unexpected cancer diagnosis of Jackson Haining, Brett’s young son.
Runners bid to raise charity funds after ‘shock’ cancer diagnosis for young Jackson
Joining them in the capital were Kristoffer Thomason and Leonard and Andrew Goodlad, who were also fundraising in the name of Iain Goodlad – who died in March 2024.
The trio have also raised almost £18,000 for charity MIND following Iain’s death from suicide at the age of 29.
And Eoin Leask and Sarah Gray have raised just under £16,000 for The Brain Tumour Charity in memory of their dad Robbie last year.
A total of 56,640 runners crossed the finish line on Sunday to set a new world record for the number of finishers, with 840,318 people applying to take part in the marathon.
Temperatures topped 22°C to add a further degree of difficulty to those taking part.
You can donate to Team Jackson’s fundraising campaign here, to the Iain Goodlad team’s fundraising efforts here and to Eoin and Sarah’s fundraiser here.
ATHLETE Katie Clubb secured a silver medal at the Scottish 10,000m championships in Glasgow last week.
Clubb used the event at Crownpoint athletics track as part of her preparations for the Island Games this summer.
She said she was delighted to run a great race and secure second place in a time of 37 minutes and seven seconds.
She found herself in a pack of women around the midway point of the race but kept to her task, running consistent lap splits and eventually pulling clear into the silver medal position.
Clubb said: “I’m absolutely delighted to have put a smart race together and come away with a national medal. The 10,000m on track is a different beast!
“Twenty five laps can make it a mental battle, as much as physical, so I’m very pleased to have run well and can take confidence from this into my 10,000m at the Island Games”.
The race marked 10 years since Clubb’s last individual national medal, and she said it had been a “long” decade as she worked her way back from injuries and motherhood.
“Hopefully this can inspire other athletes that if you keep showing up, working hard and trusting in your coaches, then there is light at the end of the tunnel,” she added.
THE FOUR remaining teams will meet in the semi-finals of the Northwards Manson Cup tonight (Monday).
Holders Whalsay will host Scalloway in the Bonnie Isle after the village side thrashed Ness United 4-1 in the quarter-finals last week.
In the other semi-final, town rivals Spurs and Thistle will meet in the first grass pitch game of the senior season.
Those two will face each other at Clickimin 1 at 6.30pm for a place in the final, which will be played on 7 June.
Spurs and Whalsay are the winners of the last three iterations of the tournament, with the milkbags narrowly seeing off Whitedale 3-2 in the last round.
Whalsay beat Celtic 2-1, while Thistle were given a bye to the last four.
THE LAST competition of the indoor bowls calendar was played for on Sunday 20 April.
This was the Wallace triples trophy, a round-robin competition with two groups of three teams playing against each other over a maximum of seven ends.
Teams earned two points for a win and one for a draw.
After the group matches had been completed the winners of group one were the team of Anne Robertson, Roy Cumming and Caroline Smith (skip), who had two wins.
Group two was a close affair, with all three teams winning one match and finishing on two points, but the winners by virtue of a better shots difference were the team of Vivienne Wilson, Alastair Geldard and Alan Smith (skip). The final was played to a high standard with closely fought ends and excellent drawing to the jack.
Over the seven ends Caroline Smith’s team proved too strong and ran out winners by a score of 7-3 and were presented the Wallace Triples Trophy.
CONNOR Leslie has been congratulated at Scottish Parliament after becoming the first ever Shetlander to win a national boccia medal last month.
MSP Beatrice Wishart lodged the motion at Holyrood after Leslie secured bronze at the Scottish Disability Sport boccia championships.
She also commended Shetland’s fellow participants, and wished all of them well in their future sporting endeavours.
Leslue was one of three Shetland boccia players taking part in the Scottish Disability Sport national schools’ championship at Scotstoun Leisure Centre in late March.
His bronze medal came in the athletes with a learning disability section, with Scottish Disability Sport congratulating Lesley – and all the medal winners – for their superb performances.
Shetland will enter a national learning disability sport competition for the first time this summer, with a boccia team one of those heading to Stirling.
The event runs from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 July.
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