World Champions

Scotland - World Stone Skimming Champions
Scotland - World Stone
Skimming Champions

Fresh from basking in the warm, satisfying glow of Scotland winning the 2005 World Elephant Polo Championships, FirstFoot is proud to publish the full results from this year’s World Stone Skimming Championships which were held, as every year, on the Island of Easdale, some 16 miles south of Oban.

Our footballers may not be world-beaters but, as any Glasgow Bus driver will readily testify, nobody chucks a stone quite like a Scot.

Altogether now,

“We are the champions, my friend, yes we’ll keep on skimming to the end, oh we are the champions, we are the champions, no time for losers, because we are the champions, of the world”

Winners and Runners-up in the World Stone Skimming Championships 2005 were:

Men's:    
 
1st Dougie Isaacs Scotland 62m
2nd Andrew McKinna Scotland 59m
3rd Eric Robertson Scotland 57m
     
Women's:
1st Sandra MacLean Scotland 30m
2nd equal Gwen MacKenzie Scotland 25m
2nd equal Alison Aldridge England 25m
3rd Sandra Melville Scotland 23m
     
Junior boys
(10-15 incl):        
1st Allan Laycock Scotland 47m
2nd Neil Fraser Scotland 43m
3rd Stephen O'Neill Scotland 34m
     
Junior girls (10-15
incl):    
1st Catriona Melville Scotland 16m
2nd Laura MacKay Scotland 13m
3rd Ailidh Wilson Scotland 6m
       
Under 10 boys:  
1st Connor Watson Scotland 26m
2nd equal Ben Gallagher Scotland 24m
2nd equal Simon Fraser Scotland 24m
3rd Louis MacDonald Scotland 20m
     
Under 10 girls:  
 
1st Carol Timmermans Scotland 6m
2nd Holly Wesley Scotland 5m
3rd equal Elsa Wilkins Scotland 4m
3rd equal Eve Kinneburgh Scotland 4m
       
Over-all Champions
since 1997:
       
1997 Ian Sheriff New Zealand 55m
1998 Ian Shellcock England 50m
1999 Ian Shellcock England 54m
2000 Scott Finney Scotland 54m
2001 Iain MacGregor Australia 65m
2002 Alastair Judkins New Zealand back wall
2003 Ian Brown Scotland 55m
2004 Andrew McKinna Scotland 47m
2005 Dougie Isaacs Scotland 62m
       

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http://www.stoneskimming.com/index.htm

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