About

ResultsNet is an independent sports results service providing quick and easy access to the current and historical results that are important to you.

The focus is on the traditional Scottish Games - Highland Games, Border Games and the unique New Year Sprint. Results are displayed in a consistent and user-friendly format, typically within a day of being published by the relevant official body.

The Journey

ResultsNet can trace its origins back to 1998 and the birth of the New Year Sprint website which provided information about the forthcoming meeting, then results after the event. The New Year Sprint was one of the first members of the Scottish Games Association (as it was then) to sport an online presence.

The New Year Sprint website evolved over time with Sprint Search, Supporting Event Winners search page and the Past Editions page amongst the most significant developments. At launch in 2002, the Sprint Search database provided searchable access to 20 years of New Year Sprint results; now there's 77 years worth of data going back to 1958. The Past Editions page is the gateway to all manner of information about every edition of the Meeting going back to 1870.

ResultsNet was born in the summer of 2023 and saw results of all Border Games since 2018 available at the click of a button.

By the end of 2023, ResultsNet had become the new home for the venerable New Year Sprint webpages. In addition, results of many Highland Games of 2023 were also onboard. By the end of March 2024, all fifty-four sets of Highland Games results from 2023 were instantly accessible. ResultsNet truly had become the home of traditional Scottish Games results.

As the 2024 season progressed, results for both Highland Games and Border Games appeared on ResultsNet in a very timely fashion.

New, exciting, functionality is planned for the start of the 2025 season, so watch this space!

Behind ResultsNet

ResultsNet, the New Year Sprint website and Sportingworld.co.uk were conceived and developed single handedly by David Rothwell, Manchester.

David was a regular participant in Border Games and the New Year Sprint, making the occasional foray into Highland Games, from the early 1980s to the mid 2000s. He was a sprint finalist at Langholm, Peebles and St. Ronan's Border Games and Perth Highland Games. David was also a finalist in several supporting events at the New Year Gala, failing by a whisker to qualify for the 118th New Year Sprint final, in 1987.

Keen to establish a presence for the New Year Sprint on the Internet, David developed the inaugural version of the New Year Sprint website in late 1998 and the website evolved in looks, content and functionality over the next 25 years.

As manager of the New Year Sprint's online presence, David set up the New Year Sprint Facebook page in late 2015 and ran it for the rest of the Frank Hanlon era of promotion.

David further assisted Frank Hanlon on the organisational side from the mid 2010s and he took on the responsibility of meeting manager for the 154th New Year Sprint Gala in 2023, the final meeting of Frank's record breaking tenure as promoter.

Following the 154th meeting, David stepped back from organisational duties and focussed on developing ResultsNet as the go-to place for results of Border Games, Highland Games and the New Year Sprint.