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Killin International Highland Games
stag
 
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

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
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Dancing

Organiser - Jean Swanston

Premier Under 12
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Premier 12 and under 14 years
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Premier 14 and under 17 years

Premier 17 years and over
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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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