And we wrap up the SATS Challenge 2024 with our Track & Field Club of the Year tables.

Congratulations to our winners -

Senior - Edinburgh AC

U20 - Victoria Park City of Glasgow AC

U17 - Victoria Park City of Glasgow AC

U15 - Aberdeen AAC

U13 - Giffnock North AC

You can see the final outcomes here:

https://www.scotstats.net/.../sats.../club-of-the-year/ or by clicking on the link above.

On the last day of the year, we conclude our SATS Challenge Track and Field athlete rankings. The top 100 countdown results in Josh Kerr, Olympic silver medallist, coming out on top ahead of fellow Olympians Laura Muir, Jemma Reekie, Neil Gourley and Nick Percy, repeating the top 5 order from 2023. 

The final 25 produced 3 throwers, 5 jumpers, 4 sprinters, 1 steeplechaser and 12 distance athletes. The list was male-dominated at the top with 17 of the top 25 being men and 8 women.

The full top 100 is here: https://www.scotstats.net/rankings-1/sats-challenge/ or by clicking on the link above.

In a top 20 that clearly demonstrates the strength in depth of our men's middle distance runners, Aberdeen's hanner thrower, Angela McAuslan-Kelly, the only Scot to gain selection for an individual event in the World Under 20 Champs, emerged as the winner of our 2024 SATS Challenge. In a close-run contest, she defeated Scottish 800 metres record-holder, Jamie Phillips of Kilmarnock and javelin thrower Scott Hopper of Central AC.

11 athletes in our top 20 were men's middle-distance with the women's category not showing any great depth - only Rebecca Grieve and Meghan Porterfield featuring in our top twenty.

The full top 20 is here: https://www.scotstats.net/rankings-1/sats-challenge/ or by clicking on the link above.

The Under 17 category was a really strong one with a lot of excellent athletes not even making the top 20. The strength in depth of the middle-distance running in the men's events was telling and several athletes in the 800 metres, 1500 metres and 3000 metres featured. Leading the way was Kilbarchan's Josh Mungin, 7th in 2023, who improved his best by over 3 seconds at 800m, setting new Scottish record.  He pushed clubmate Alistair Street (4th in last year's U15 table) into 2nd with Holly Whittaker's excellent performances at 80 metres hurdles and long jump placing her top female in 3rd.

The full top 20 is here: https://www.scotstats.net/rankings-1/sats-challenge/ or by clicking on the link above.

We had 3 outstanding candidates in the under-15 age-group, all of whom topped the UK Rankings - Murray Taylor of Inverness was outstanding over the high jump (1st in the UK), 80mH (2nd UK), and Pentathlon (1st UK); Leanna Elliot topped the High jump rankings and was 3rd UK pentathlete; but the winner of the SATS Challenge is Cumbernauld's Sophie Robertson, whose hammer record (awaiting ratification) led the Uk rankings by over 7 metres.

The full top 20 is here: https://www.scotstats.net/rankings-1/sats-challenge/ or by clicking on the link above.

Our winner is Shettleston's Joseph Lanahan who dominated the age-group with new Scottish records for the long jump and pentathlon. He led the UK rankings in these events by a remarkable 24cm in the long jump and 168 points in the pentathlon.

2nd was Kilmarnock high jumper Eilidh Mitchell and 3rd Alexander Wotherspoon, Law & District's 1500m runner.

The full top 20 is here: https://www.scotstats.net/rankings-1/sats-challenge/ or by clicking on the link above.

6 October - Callum Hawkins won today's Great Scottish Run in 63:25 to go to the top of the Scottish rankings.  It was his 3rd success in the race, having won in 2016 and 2022. Photo credit: Bobby Gavin.

London - Eilish McColgan took victory at 'The Big Half' Half Marathon in 69:14, a time that leads the Scottish rankings this year. The Big Half 2024 was the official British Athletics trial race for the half marathon at the inaugural European Running Championships, which are being held in Belgium next April. McColgan and runner-up Calli Hauger-Thackery gained the required position and time to qualify. In the men's race, Weynay Ghebresilasie was third in 64:31, a time which was also the fastest by a Scot this year. The men's qualifying standard was 62:30. Results. Rankings.

Gothenburg - Paul Forbes continued his success at the World Masters with a gold medal in the M65 800m and silver in the 1500m. There were gold medals too for Darren Scott in the M55 200 metres and for Grant Baillie in the M45 Steeplechase. Results here.

24 August - Andrew McGill and Kane Elliott better 4 minutes for the mile at the Monument Mile Classic. Results here and full list of Scottish sub-4 milers here.

24 August - A Scotland Under-20 team, competing against senior opposition, finished third at the Manchester international. There were personal bests for Emma McLennan (now 3rd ranked senior  this year at 2000m steeplechase) and Anna Reid (now a ckear 2nd ranked senior this year at high jump) while the Men's 4x400m relay team came close to the Under-20 record. Results here.

PARIS, 6 August - Josh Kerr improved from Olympic bronze in 2021 to Olympic silver in 2024 in a hotly contested 1500 metres final which saw the American, Cole Hocker, upset the favourites, Kerr and Ingebrigtsen, to take gold in an Olympic record of 3:27.65.  Josh Kerr set new British  and Scottish records of 3:27.79, with Neil Gourley tenth in 3:30.88. Kerr becomes the first Scot to win medals at consecutive official Olympic Games (Wyndham Halswelle won medals in 1906 and 1908, but the 1906 Games are not considered official).

EUGENE, 25 May - In a dramatic Bowerman mile that saw the higly-anticipated clash between Josh Kerr and Jakob Ingebrigtsen, it was the Scot who came out on top, leading from the front, and powering to a new British mile record of 3:45.34, breaking Steve Cram's long-standing record of 3:56.32 set 39 years ago. It moves Kerr to 6th in the world all-time list and takes an astonishing 4.96 seconds off Jake Wightman's Scottish record of 3:50.30. Wightman himself smashed his best with 3:47.83 but found that only good enough for fifth on the day. Astonishingly, he was only the third Scot to finish, with Neil Gourley pipping him for fourth in 3:47.74, a personal best outdoors by 5.17 seconds! 

NEW PAGE ADDED! The International section now includes a new page 'International Events' which provides links to Scottish performances at major events - from the World Athletics Relays to the IAAF World Cup, the European Team Championships to the European Throwing Cup, the NCAA Championships, the Diamond League meetings and the World Athletics Indoor Tour.  Go to the International tab, then International Events, or click on the link here or on the above logo. 

JOSH KERR, photo courtesy of Bobby Gavin, wins the World Indoor 3000 metres title. He becomes the first Scottish winner at the Championships in over 30 years and the third winner since Tom McKean and Yvonne Murray's double success in Toronto in 1993.  Jemma Reekie gained her first global senior medal with silver in the 800 metres, with Laura Muir setting a new Scottish Native record in fifth position in the 3000 metres. (Records subject to ratification).

THREE DAYS of superb athletics at the World Indoor Championships at Glasgow's Emirates Arena saw 2 World Records being set - by Femke Bol (pictured) with a remarkable 49.17 seconds for the 400 metres short track record and by Devynne Charlton, who lowered her 60m hurdles record to 7.65 seconds. Two Scottish Native Records were set - both in the 3000 metres - by Josh Kerr and Laura Muir - and the Scottish all-comers' record list will be re-written after being equalled or bettered on 21 occasions.

These are the 2nd and 3rd World Records to be set at the Emirates and the 10th and 11th to be set indoors in Glasgow. For the FULL LIST of World Records set in Scotland - see here. (Records subject to ratification).

2023 RANKING LISTS ADDED! The Rankings tab features the all-time and annual Scottish athletes ranking lists for track and field and road and ultra racing. 2023 rankings for seniors and age-groups have now been added. Full senior ranking lists cover the years back to 2000. Click on the logo above.

The Results tab features the main results of Scottish athletes from across the world. We are now into the 15th year of recording results with results going back to 2010 on the website. Click on the logo above.

1 January 2024. Josh Kerr and Laura Muir are the highest-ranked Scots in the year-end World Athletics rankings. Both are placed 3rd in their individual 1500m events with Muir 33rd and Kerr 37th in the overall women's and men's rankings respectively. Neil Gourley, 8th in the 1500m, is 96th overall, the third Scot in the overall top 100s. The World Athletics world ranking lists at the end of 2023 show two other Scots to be ranked in the top ten in their events - Jemma Reekie 6th in the 800 metres and Eilish McColgan 7th in the 10000m. With no races in 2023, Jake Wightman and Beth Dobbin have slipped out of the top 12 Scots but there are signs of a new generation emerging. Megan Keith is 4th in the women's lists, Adam Clayton is 5th in the men's lists and Erin Wallace is in at 6th, all three new to the lists this year. However, the quality of the top Scots has dipped in 2023 - 7 Scottish athletes have amassed scores of 1200 points or higher; in 2022, 13 Scots achieved that score.  Here are the leading Scottish athletes at the end of 2023 (2022 position in brackets):