Fraser Clyne

About

During the 1980’s and early 1990’s Fraser Clyne was one of the country's leading marathon runners. His quickest time of 2hr 11min 50sec was set when finishing second in the US championships at Sacramento in 1984 and he is the fourth fastest Scot of all-time. He has run faster than 2hr 20mins on 22 occasions.He represented Great Britain at the World Marathon Cups in Hiroshima (1985), Seoul (1987) and Milan (1989). Fraser represented Scotland at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, finishing 10th. He also won the Oakland marathon in California in 1983 and 1984. He was runner-up at Melbourne (1985) and Casablanca (1988) and was fourth at Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St Paul) in 1988, fifth at San Francisco (1987) and sixth at Berlin (1984). He ran in the Scottish marathon championships for the first time at Elgin in 1992 when, at the age of 37, he won. He went on to win a total of five Scottish marathon titles in five appearances in the race, the last of which was in 1997 at the age of 42. He was also Scottish road running grand prix champion on three occasions. He competed in the world cross country championships five times and once in the world mountain running trophy. He has represented Scotland and/or Great Britain on the track, road, cross country and mountain running and competed internationally over 3,000m steeplechase, 5,000m, 10,000m, half marathon, marathon and 100Km.Fraser is now a freelance sports writer and running consultant involved in race promotion and management. He is part of the Run Balmoral Management Team and for the past two years has worked for the Great Run Company on the Great Aberdeen Run.He also provides advice and motivational talks to runners, either in group sessions or on an individual basis.