Cambuslang Harriers end season with impressive medal return

Cambuslang Harriers ended their winter season in style, with a bronze individual medal, team gold, and another senior team bronze for a university side.

Under-17 runner Millie Nicholl took bronze at the Scottish Young Athletes’ Road Championships, while the M50 team of Mark Gallacher, Chris Upson, Richard Cooper and Kerry-Liam Wilson won team gold at the Seniors and Masters Road Relay Championships.

Andre Carey picked up a bronze senior team medal in the colours of Glasgow University, while Cameron Smith helped Notts AC to victory in the Midlands 12-Stage Road Relay Championships, clocking the fourth-fastest long stage.

Owen Walpole, who has recently returned to Scotland, played his part in Sunderland taking ninth place in the Northern 12 Stage.

Pride of place for the club goes to Millie Nicholl, who won under-17 bronze in the 5k, held on a fast, flat course in Greenock.

Her new personal best time by 57 seconds of 17.48 puts her third in the Scottish and UK rankings for her age category.

Eilidh Kennedy also set a personal best, lowering her time to 21.57, while under-17 men Lewis Roddis and Finlay Robb significantly reduced their PB times to 16.15 and 16.57, respectively.

Olivia McNicol registered the competitive time of 15.55 in the U15 girls’ 4k, while her male age counterpart Sam McCarthy, in 13.47, led his club mates Chris Black, Gavin Kelly, Lewis Cook and Gabriel Murphy to fifth place in the team competition.

The under-13 girls’ trio of Emma Ritchie, Erin Kearney and Megan O’Brien finished ninth.

Cambuslang Harriers’ senior men and women, and masters men, enjoyed unseasonably warm temperatures for the National Road Relays at Livingston.

The M50 event was a closely-fought contest between defending champions