The Dublin, Ohio Irish Festival is hosting the 2012 IHGF Women’s World Highland Games Team Championships, with “a total of ten of the world’s top-ranked women Highland Games athletes competing in five two-woman teams:


Kate Burton, hot off breaking the world record in the 14-lb. weight for distance, will be competing at the IHGF Women’s Highland Games Team Championships.  IronMind® | Courtesy of Francis Brebner.


USA West:  Kate Burton (WA) & Beth Burton (CA)
USA East: Adriane Wilson (SC) & Lacy Johnson (CT)
USA Central: Emily Burchett (MS) & Ingrid Marcum (Il)
Europe: Alison Rodgers (Scotland) & Sandra Pétursdóttir (Iceland)
Canada: Alexandra Norman-Ross (AB) & Laura Reusser (ON)

“Kate Burton only this past weekend at Portland Highland Games set a new World Record in the 14-lb. weight for distance with a throw of 91' 3/4” which indicates that with only a short few weeks out from the IHGF Woman's World Team Championships is on fine form for this hampionship title.

“Athletic Director and organizer Brian Huntley of the Dublin Irish Festival has done a great work in making this event a world class event with the best prize money ever assembled for the women's events to date,” Brebner said.

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