Athletes help Inverness Harriers celebrate its 75th anniversary at stadium

Inverness Harriers celebrated their 75th anniversary when its members attended a floodlit open meeting on Saturday.

The club was founded in 1947 and had a quiet early history and only existed in name between 1961 and 1969 when it was reconstituted and resumed training at Fraser Park and the Bught Stadium.

A major expansion began in the late 1970s, helped on its way by the opening of the Queens Park track in 1984.

Since then, the club has produced five full Great Britain internationalists and eight Commonwealth Games athletes in addition to a host of Scotland caps and its athletes regularly win national titles.

Most recently Megan Keith, who was elected a life member of the club has taken European cross country under-20 gold and under-23 silver and has represented Great Britain in the senior world cross country championships.

Membership is currently rebuilding and now sits at over 250.

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