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Field Events
Stone Putt
28lb Weight for Distance
Light Hammer
Caber
Overhead Lift
McGlashan Stones
56lb Weight for Height
On-field Announcer - David P Webster OBE
Referee - Douglas Edmunds
Perthshire Highland Games Association
Events
Confined
Heavy Weight section
will start at 12 noon
Competitors to report to the Secretary's tent by 11.45am.
The Open
Heavy Weight section
starts at 2pm,
Amateur Trial of Strength
starts at about 4pm
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Piping
Total prize fund £1,560
All competitors pay admission to the park and
this then gains entry to the competitions.
All competitors must report to the Piping Convenor by 10.00 am.
Piobaireachd
Piobaireachd, some say is for the purists, but all can understand
the care taken in the lingering notes and subtle changes in fingering.
The music may have to be carefully listened to, and then the skill
and care in playing will be understood.
Prize money:
Senior: 1st £140; 2nd £80; 3rd £50; 4th £30
March, Strathspey & Reel
and Jig
To the vast majority, the tunes of the March, Strathspey &
Reel and the Jig are more easy to listen to, and their names remembered.
Feet can tap out the rhythm and mouths jum the tunes in time to
the piper's playing.
Prize money for each section:
Senior: 1st £100; 2nd £50; 3rd £30; 4th £20
Junior 16-18:
1st £60; 2nd £30; 3rd £20; 4th £10
Junior 15 and under:
1st £40; 2nd £30; 3rd £20; 4th £10
Junior Piobaireachd
First Prize - a week's tuition at the College of Piping in Glasgow
Convenor - Dr.
Dave Syme
Email
Dave Syme
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Dancing
Organiser - Jean Swanston
Premier Under 12
sponsored by
Premier 12 and under 14 years
sponsored by
Premier 14 and under 17 years
Premier 17 years and over
sponsored by
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Open Hill
Race
starts at 3.30pm
Clan
Chiefs did not have the benefit of communications that we know
today, but it was very important to get and receive messages
as quickly as possible, especially if they were warning of danger.
Each Chief had a fit young male as his runner. His task was
to get the message quickly to a neighbour, whose Clachan migh
have to be reached over steep and rough ground, and in all kinds
of weather. The choice of runner was decided each year, so tradition
informs us, by the Chief summoning all the fit mean to see who
was the fittest and fastest. The test was for them to run up
a chosen hill and back to the Clachan, with the winner being
chosen runner of the Clan for that year.
Killin, along with other games, mark this test of stamina with
a Hill Race from the Games feld to the top of Sron a Chlachain
and back.
Organiser
- Duncan MacDonald
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