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