Former world 1500m champion Jake Wightman appears to show he’s over final yr’s damage issues as he begins his 2025 season by testing himself over 3,000m in Glasgow on Saturday.
The 30-year-old Scot, who took the world crown on the shorter distance in 2022 however needed to withdraw from final yr’s Olympic Video games in Paris, is heading north from his Manchester base to compete within the Scottish 3,000m Championships at Emirates Area.
The Glasgow Athletics Affiliation’s Miler Meet combines The New Yr Bash, with excessive bounce, lengthy bounce, shot put, triple bounce and pole vault competitions, and a sequence of 800m and three,000m races from 14:00 GMT.
Males’s and girls’s races – three 800m and 11 at 3,000m – will happen at totally different ranges till Wightman goes for the title within the top-race finale at round 16:40.
Amongst his opponents in the principle males’s race shall be fellow Nice Britain worldwide Callum Elson, the Englishman’s Cambridge & Coleridge team-mate Thomas Bridger, and Morpeth’s James Younger.
The ladies’s title is liable to be contested by Edinburgh AC’s Elsa Palmer, Lasswade’s Sarah Tait, Edinburgh College Hare & Hounds’ Sarah Calvert and Cambuslang Harriers’ Stefanie Tucker.
The 800m races characteristic Scotland internationals Hannah Cameron, of Aberdeen AAC, and Jill Cherry, of Victoria Park Metropolis of Glasgow.