Pitreavie Amateur Athletic Club, or Pitreavie AAC for short, is a British athletics club based in

Dunfermline Dunfermline (; , ) is a city, parish, and former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. Dunfermline was the de facto capital of the Kingdom of Scotland between the 11th and 15th centuries. The earliest ...

Fife Fife ( , ; ; ) is a council areas of Scotland, council area and lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area in Scotland. A peninsula, it is bordered by the Firth of Tay to the north, the North Sea to the east, the Firth of Forth to the s ...

, Scotland. The club makes use of modern and expansive facilities including its own clubhouse and gym as well as access to an outdoor running track and complete indoor facilities at the Pitreavie Indoor Centre run by Fife Sports and Leisure Trust. At Pitreavie AAC, men and women of all ages and abilities compete in a wide range of events, from

sprinting Sprinting is running over a short distance at the top-most speed of the body in a limited period of time. It is used in many sports that incorporate running, typically as a way of quickly reaching a target or goal, or avoiding or catching an op ...

to ultra-distance running. The club has teams for all disciplines, as well as highly qualified coaches and excellent facilities.

History

The club was formed in 1956, the same year that a new £30,000 track had been laid down. Since 1978 the club has had at least one representative at the

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and has produced several Olympians, including

Linsey MacDonald Linsey Tarrel Macdonald (born 14 February 1964) is a former sprinter from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, who specialised in the 400 metres and competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was nicknamed "The Fife Flyer" during her career. Biograp ...

and Eilidh Child-Doyle who both won bronze medals.

Notable athletes

Olympians

Commonwealth Games

Other

Trudi Thomson Trudi Thomson (née Green; born 18 January 1959) is a British former distance runner and ultramarathon runner who competed for Great Britain at the IAU 100 km World Championships in 1993 and 1994, the IAAF 1995 World Cup Marathon, the IAAF 1995 ...

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medalist in

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References

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