MORE than 100 young athletes descended on Atlantis Leisure, Oban, last Sunday for the Argyll athletics final. The athletics final, promoted by Mid Argyll Athletic Club, was the culmination of a five-round series of events held throughout Argyll during the winter months.
After several hours of intense competition, five Argyll age records were broken with young athletes from Oban and Kin-tyre mainly dominating in the boys events and Mull and Kintyre to the fore in the girls events.
The top performance of the day was by Ellen MacRae from Salen on Mull, who broke four different age records for Argyll. Beth John-stone, from Tarbert, came close to beating Ellen in the high jump but narrowly missed out on top spot, despite clearing 1.13metres and exceeding the old Argyll age record of 1.10m.