Scottish athletes take centre stage throughout new occasion at Emirates Enviornment
Information fell and Scottish athletes stood out because the inaugural Occasions for Athletics Promotion (EAP) Indoor Worldwide Meet befell in Glasgow on Sunday (February 2).
A crowd of round 1100 descended on the Emirates Enviornment, venue for final yr’s World Athletics Indoor Championships, to observe a variety of Olympians, Paralympians and prime quality opponents from throughout the UK and Europe in motion. But it surely was the performances of the house athletes that took centre stage.
Prime of the invoice was Alessandro Schenini. He broke the Scottish indoor document, and Scottish native document, within the males’s lengthy bounce, reaching out to 7.86m and going 5 centimetres additional than Darren Ritchie’s earlier mark. The Giffnock North athlete was adopted by fellow countrymen Stephen Mackenzie (7.78m) and Murray Fotheringham (7.72m).
Alyson Bell (Bobby Gavin)
On the monitor, Alyson Bell took the plaudits after finishing a powerful 60m and 200m dash double. Within the shorter dash, the Scot acquired the picture end verdict and secured the Scottish native document after she and Pleasure Eze each clocked 7.33. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than Bell was in full circulation once more, successful the ladies’s 200m in 23.45.
One other spotlight of the night got here throughout the males’s 1500m, which was received by Joe Wigfield in 3:37.72 forward of Archie Davis’ 3:38.58. Third-placed Kane Elliott broke the Scottish native document for the gap along with his run of three:40.75, decreasing a mark that had stood for 28 years.
Kane-Elliott (Bobby Gavin)
Elsewhere, Irish two-time European relay gold medallist Sharlene Mawdsley regarded sharp within the ladies’s 400m, clocking a PB of 51.69 to edge out British coaching accomplice Lina Nielsen’s 51.86. Each have been contained in the qualifying requirements for subsequent month’s European Indoor Championships.
Ava Lloyd, coaching accomplice to Keely Hodgkinson on the M11 Monitor Membership, received the ladies’s 800m in 2:05.13, edging out Hannah Cameron (2:05.87), whereas Denmark’s Simon Hansen received the lads’s 60m in 6.69 and British Paralympian Zac Shaw led dwelling a males’s Para 60m combined classification race in 7.22.
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