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2017 Poster

Three SHGA Scottish Championship Events for 2017

The Halkirk Highland Games has the honour of hosting three SHGA Scottish Championship events in 2017. The 800m cycling race for seniors and for the Heavies, the 16lb hammer and 22lb hammer events. Prize money for all

Music Tent for 2017

A new feature at the Halkirk Highland Games for 2017 will be a tent dedicated to showcase the musical talent of local bands and singers. This will sit alongside the other attractions outside of the main ring

Two Pipe Bands for 2017

The star attraction at the 2017 Halkirk Highland Games will be the appearance of two pipe bands. They are; Thurso Pipe Band and for the very first time at Halkirk, the Inverness Royal British Legion

All the 2016 results

The results for all the events at the 2016 Halkirk Games are attached.   2016_halkirk_games_main_results 2016_Halkirk_Games_complete_results

TV film crew at Halkirk Games

Chronograph Films had a TV crew at the Halkirk Games to record the Heavyweight athletes in action for a documentary. They have followed the heavies all around the world for the last year and Halkirk

International interest in Halkirk Games

Randall J Strossen and Elizabeth Hammond of Ironmind Enterprises, California, USA, travelled all the way to Halkirk to cover the World Heavy Events Championships for Ironmind's magazine; MILO: Strength. Randall is a very experienced sports

Press & Journal article

Today's P&J (1st August 2016) has a big article about the Halkirk Games and a huge action photo of Scott Rider, the new World Heavy Events Champion.  

Main results

  The main overall results of the 2016 Halkirk Games are in attached spreadsheet   2016_halkirk_games_main_results There are great photos of the Games on the Facebook pages for Wolfburn Photograhy https://www.facebook.com/Wolfburn-Photography-223412514434397/photos/?tab=album&album_id=929426173833024   and for Duncan McLachlan/Studiograff Photography https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1281580268533730&type=1&pnref=story      

Scott Rider is new world champion

England's Scott Rider blew away the competition to become the 2016 World Invitational Heavy Events Champion at the Halkirk Highland Games today. He beat reigning champion Dan McKim, USA, into 2nd place and Matt Vincent,