Eleven Elgin Amateur Athletics Club youngsters excel at 4J Studios Scottish National Indoor Athletics Championship in Grangemouth with five national podium triumphs
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The Scottish Indoor Athletics Championships were once again a huge success for Elgin Amateur Athletics Club.
With this year's World Championships being staged at the traditional Emirates Stadium venue in Glasgow, a £1.2 million upgrade is currently under way at the facility.
That meant the Scottish indoors going to alternative venues, with qualifying heats held in Ayr, Pitreavie and Aberdeen and the finals at Grangemouth.
Eleven members of Elgin AAC made it through to Grangemouth and did their club proud, winning one gold, three silver and a bronze medal at national level.
In the youngest age group, Erin Ring was competing in her first year in under-13 girls and just missed out on a shot putt personal best as she finished tenth.
In the long jump, Erin did well to reach the final and finish sixth.
Three Elgin AAC athletes competed at under-15 level in the finals.
In the boys, Quentin Fowlie was eighth in the shot putt while Gemma Forgie took part in three girls' events and came so close to a podium place.
Gemma produced her best performance yet in the triple jump to finish fourth, a placing she matched in the long jump. Another PB arrived in the 60 metres hurdles, where she was fifth in the final.
Lochaber athlete Maddison MacMillan, who competes for Elgin AAC as a second claim, got a PB in the triple jump to come in sixth and was eighth in the long jump.
There was some great success for the Moray club's under-17 athletes.
Lexi Grant started things off by winning a Scottish bronze in the women's triple jump.
Team-mate Holly Whittaker added to her long list of athletics honours by producing her best 60m hurdles run yet to win the gold - her time is also the second-fastest of all-time in Scotland for indoor 60m hurdles.
Holly also won silver in the long jump and competed in the 60 metres, grabbing a PB and club record to finish second in her heat.
Lauren Abbott was close to a personal best in the 60 metres, finishing fourth in her heat.
Also close to a PB in the same event was Ava Cruickshank, who was fifth in her heat and did manage a personal best in the shot putt to finish inside the top ten.
Another under-17 woman within a whisker of her PB in the 60m hurdles was Iris Whitton who came in fourth in her heat.
There was another Elgin medal in the men's under-17s as Andrew Lumsden stormed to second place and the triple jump silver.
In the process, he smashed his own club record with a personal best.
Finally, the oldest Elgin AAC athlete in the group came up with two personal bests, two club records and a silver medal.
Tom Palmer was second in the final of the under-20 men's 60 metres hurdles with his and Elgin AAC's best run yet to earn the silver.
He also landed a club and personal best in the high jump and came in seventh.
A week earlier, both Lauren Abbott and Holly Whittaker made the long journey to Sheffield to compete in the English National Indoor Championships.
Both produced stunning efforts over the weekend.
Lauren broke her own indoor 300 metres personal best to reach the semi-finals on the Saturday.
The following day she did the same in the 200 metres with a PB in the heats, and her times in both events are new club records.
Holly ran a 60 metres hurdles PB in the heats - she was to beat that again in Grangemouth a week later - by running the third fastest time for the indoor event at her age group in Scottish history.
She progressed to the semi-finals then reached the final, coming in fifth as well as producing a strong performance in the long jump which was outside the medals.
