Corstorphine athletes excel at home and abroad

Dougie Selman has broken the Corstorphine Athletic Club record for the marathon with a sizzling run in Valencia.

He crossed the line in 2hrs 20mins 27secs, taking a whopping 26 seconds off the previous best set by Michael Crawley at the Frankfurt Marathon in 2018.

It was Dougie’s second club record of 2023, having set the standard over 100km with a time of 6hrs 47mins 48secs at the Anglo Celtic Plate in April.

Meanwhile, Corstorphine Athletic Club members returned from the Lindsays East District Cross Country Championships in Aberdeen with a haul of medals.

The Masters men’s team of Stuart Livingstone (28mins 36secs), Iain Hutchinson (30:15) and Malcolm Lang (30:19) won gold over the 8.6km course.

Stuart made it a double as he helped Calum McKenzie (27:16), Dermot Cummins (27:24), Jack Eykelbosch (27:30), James Dunn (27:39) and Angus Smith (28:33) take bronze in the Senior men’s team race.

The Senior women’s team also bagged bronze thanks to fine runs from Kara McKenzie-Tait (33:19), Kirstin Maxwell (34:55), Anne Ewing (35:09) and Lisa Traill (38:10) at the Balgownie playing fields.

Adding to the haul Josie-Wren Golder embellished her burgeoning medal collection and continued her excellent form with a third place finish in the under-20 women’s race. Her time over the 6.4km course was 24:36.