Lanarkshire 2011 International Children's Games

And the Lanarkshire team are delighted with two silver medials.

Alec Thomas was second in the boys 100m in a time of 11.48seconds behind Baghdad's Ali Al Sultan who ran in a time of 11.29 seconds.

Alec said: "It was absolutely brilliant. My personal best time is 11.44 seconds, so I was really pleased. I was absolutely focussed on finishing at the line and didn't let anyone else distract me. The whole games have been really exciting and nervous at the same time.

"One day I hope to get to the Commonwealth games if I keep up the hard training."

Andrew Coutts also made it through to the 100metre final finishing fifth in a time of 11.67seconds, and he believes a poor start cost him a medal. "I stumbled at the start, coming too low out of the blocks, but I got back up and started to run my own race.

"I think it cost me a bronze medal as that's what I'd been aiming for. But overall it's been a great experience. I only started sprinting seriously last year so I'm honoured to be here."

Andrew and Alec have been training four nights a week for over a year.

Mhairi Hendry, competing in her third and final Children's Games, was runner up in the girls' 800metre finals in a time of 2.14.68seconds behind Reykjavik's impressive Ani Hinriksdottir (2.10.10seconds).

In the girls' high jump, Jennifer Shmidt (Freiberg) took gold, Kinga Nisztor (Plock) was second and bronze went to Lausanne's Romane Chevalley. Kaunaus' Kamile Kunickaite won the girls shot put with a distance of 11.97metres and Veronika Domjan (Ptuj) with 11.63metres was second.

In the boys long jump final, Chon Lok Tam from Macau won with a superb jump of 6.14metres. Rene Perko (Maribor) was second and Nino Celec (Murska Sobota) won the bronze medal.

Lanarkshire's Kade Thomas was a respectable eighth with is jump of 5.77m and Edinburgh's Jamie Batho was tenth with 5.57metres.

Finally, in the boys shot put, Himar Jonsson took gold with his throw of 16.52m. Zeqiao Li of Beijing was second and Sparta's Ilias Souglas was third with 14.57metres. Ben Robbins from Edinburgh was seventh with 11.25metres.

Tomorrow's sprint relay finals promise to be an exciting affair after a thrilling qualifying series of heats in both the boys and girls events.

Team Lanarkshire's athletes made it through to both finals. The boy's team of Alec Thomas, Darren Daly, Kade Thomas and Andrew Coutts stormed through in a time of 45.49 seconds; that's almost two seconds faster than any other qualifying team. In their heat they had finished in second place behind the Singapore team. However, both Singapore and Coventry were disqualified for late handovers. 

In a sensational performance, Singapore's girl's team smashed the 50 second barrier in a time of 49.45seconds. Among the eight finalists they will face include team Oakland who ran 50.79seconds, Patras from Greece who managed 50.86seconds and our own team Lanarkshire who finished second in their heat with 51.09seconds.

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