PUPILS from Lochgelly High School were in outstanding form during round four of the East Series Cross Country programme last week.

Organised by Scottish Athletics and Scottish Disability Sport (SDS), around 50 athletes were entered from Disability Sport Fife (DSF) schools for the event in Edinburgh last Tuesday, with competitors awarded points over each of the four rounds to determine the overall year group champions.

In the girls 1k race, Lochgelly's Amy Dignan produced the quickest time in the S2 competition in a time of 7.39, while there was double trouble for the field in the S4 girls 2k race in the shape of twins Louise and Michelle Harley.

They finished first and second, with Louise crossing first in 14.56, and that helped them take first and second place with 30 and 28 points each respectively in the S3-S6 girls 2k series overall.

Athletes had the choice of competing over 500m, 1k, 2k or 3k distances and Fife competitors recorded their best series results to date, helped significantly by Lochgelly High pupils.

In the S1 1k boys series, Stephen Davies won an excellent silver medal between the gold and bronze medal winners from Woodmill High, Nathan Smith and Richard Myers, while there was a Lochgelly one-two in the S2 girls 1k series.

Amy Dignan secured the gold medal, demonstrating an improvement from race one to race four of 35 seconds in the process, while Chloe Ramsay took silver ahead of Woodmill's Saskia Taylor.

The boys S2 1k was won by Woodmill's Edwin Barron but Landon McKinnon and Reece Philip from Lochgelly won silver and bronze by accumulating 27 and 22 points.

Kayshaleigh Lambert was a bronze medallist in the girls S3 1k series while Shakeel Ul-Haq earned the same in the series for athletes with additional support needs.

Derry Reilly was second overall in the S4 girls 1k series while there was a bronze for Gary Fraser in the boys S5 2k series as Lochgelly's athletes enjoyed a strong performance throughout the series ahead of the Scottish Championships in Glasgow later this month, and the Fife Championships in Kirkcaldy in May.