Scottish athletes take centre stage throughout new occasion at Emirates Area
Information fell and Scottish athletes stood out because the inaugural Occasions for Athletics Promotion (EAP) Indoor Worldwide Meet came about in Glasgow on Sunday (February 2).
A crowd of round 1100 descended on the Emirates Area, venue for final 12 months’s World Athletics Indoor Championships, to look at quite a lot of Olympians, Paralympians and top quality opponents from throughout the UK and Europe in motion. However it was the performances of the house athletes that took centre stage.
Prime of the invoice was Alessandro Schenini. He broke the Scottish indoor report, and Scottish native report, 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 observe, Alyson Bell took the plaudits after finishing a formidable 60m and 200m dash double. Within the shorter dash, the Scot received the picture end verdict and secured the Scottish native report after she and Pleasure Eze each clocked 7.33. It wasn’t lengthy earlier than Bell was in full movement once more, profitable the ladies’s 200m in 23.45.
One other spotlight of the night got here through the males’s 1500m, which was gained by Joe Wigfield in 3:37.72 forward of Archie Davis’ 3:38.58. Third-placed Kane Elliott broke the Scottish native report for the space 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 seemed sharp within the ladies’s 400m, clocking a PB of 51.69 to edge out British coaching associate Lina Nielsen’s 51.86. Each have been contained in the qualifying requirements for subsequent month’s European Indoor Championships.
Ava Lloyd, coaching associate to Keely Hodgkinson on the M11 Monitor Membership, gained the ladies’s 800m in 2:05.13, edging out Hannah Cameron (2:05.87), whereas Denmark’s Simon Hansen gained 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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