From Cambuslang to Tokyo, Harriers runners have raced around the world

Cambuslang Harriers athletes have been involved in races in their home town, Inverness, Alloa, Cambridge, Callander, Edinburgh and Tokyo in recent weeks.

Fraser Stewart won the Scottish Half Marathon Championships at Inverness, where Erica Christie was awarded W60 bronze medal.

The 15th annual Down By The River 10k and 3k races took place along the Clyde Walkway, with 46 Harriers amongst the 242 who set off.

Defending champion Fraser Stewart smashed his personal best to register 30.17, pushed on by Kilbarchan’s Robbie Ferguson, with East Sutherland’s Finlay Murray in third place.

With club captain Richie Carr dipping under 33 minutes in fourth place, and Euan Duernberger fifth in 33.11, the team prize went to Harriers.

Cambuslang took the ladies’ team prizes with debutant Kirsty Wright, leading W40 Kirsty O’Brien and Kathryn King packing well in fourth, fifth and sixth places.

Wright and King also picked up new personal best times of 40.12 and 41.10.

Kirsty Wright and Kirsty O’Brien were respectively awarded the Jimmy Sands Memorial Shield and Jim Fitzpatrick Memorial Shield for finishing first club senior and first master lady.

Stevie Wylie won the M50 prize and also the Jim Fitzpatrick Memorial Shield

Harriers supplied 20 of the 28 finishers in the accompanying 3k race.

Cambuslang took the first three places, with under-17 duo Zach Haggerty and Chris Black, and under-15 Daibhidh Kinnard, the latter of whom has been selected to present Scottish Schools in the Schools’ Cross Country International.

Haggerty set a new course record of 9.39, and fifth finisher Ewan Kennedy set an under-11 record of 10.14.

The first three in the girls’ race only had 13 seconds between them.

Under-15 Olivia McNicol took the honours ahead of