A RECORD-breaking weekend was celebrated by North Ayrshire Athletics Club at the West District Scottish Athletics Championships.

In all they had a haul of 16 medals to show for their efforts.

The two-day event, held at the Ayrshire Athletics area sees the best athletes from across the west of Scotland converge on Kilmarnock for the championship event.

NAAC had a record number of 23 athletes taking part from the under 13 to senior categories. The event started on the Friday night which saw Rachel Hunter open in style with another Gold Coast Commonwealth Standard in the Hammer, breaking the championship record and hopefully securing her place in next year's Commonwealth Games team.

Jilly Lefebvre added to Rachel’s gold with a gold of her own in the under-15 high jump and the night was to have a silver lining for young Ben Herron who secured a silver medal in the 200m in his first year competing under-13 and his debut at the event.

Continuing on the medals run from Friday on the Saturday was the club president, Blair Pettigrew, leading the charge with a bronze in the senior shot put. The throwing medals continued with Phoebe Lewis and Leah Murray securing silver in the Javelin in the under-17 and 13 age groups respectively.

The Brindley brothers then turned on some style with both grabbing Gold in the Pole Vault in the under-17 and 15 age groups. Aidan won bronze in the long jump with his brother equalling this in the under 17 long jump. Aidan completed his hat-trick of medals with another bronze this time in the 80m hurdles.

Not wanting to be outdone by his younger brother, Scott scooped silver in the high jump. After Friday's high jump heroics Jilly performed well in shot put and made the hurdle final, finishing in third place and grabbing another medal.

The club’s newest recruit Peter Bradshaw, in his first track and field event, made it in to the final of the 800m and finished a creditable sixth.

Leah Murray added to her early Javelin medal with a silver medal in the shot put, one better than last year's bronze.

Phoebe Lewis also added to her medal tally with a bronze in the hurdles and made the final of the 300m.

Ben Heron also added to Friday's great performance with a strong run in his hurdles and safely negotiated the heats and semi-final in the 100m, finishing in fourth place in the final and just missing out on another podium finish.

Aiobha Ballard, Carla Smith and Niamh Gaffney - making their West district debuts - performed well in the long jump, 800m and hurdles with personal bests and fine performances for them all.

Dylan Goddard added to his debut performance with a strong run and PB in the 100m.

Megan Pettigrew achieved a huge PB taking nine seconds off her 800m time, completing the race in 2.35 narrowly missing out on the final. In the same event Ben Burns, Kerrie Grier and Meridith Reid all performed well, close to their personal bests.

Kerri Brown threw a huge PB in her Javelin making the final but just finishing outside the medals. Lewis Vick and Ben Burns also performed well in the Javelin in some horrible conditions.

In the 300m Carla Murray and Meridith Reid both ran well just outside the final qualification.

Mark Holliman rounded off proceedings for team NAAC with a fantastic gold in the 400m under-20 race.

Club vice-president Michael Murray said: "The total medal count was six gold, six silver, five bronze and countless personal bests. The club had a staggering 23 athletes taking part in the West districts and bagged an impressive 16 medals, a record for the club and something everyone associated with it should be very proud of. The athletes performed so well in what were very testing conditions."