Scottish athletes take centre degree all the way through new match at Emirates Area
Information fell and Scottish athletes stood out because the inaugural Occasions for Athletics Promotion (EAP) Indoor Global Meet happened in Glasgow on Sunday (February 2).
A crowd of round 1100 descended at the Emirates Area, venue for closing yr’s International Athletics Indoor Championships, to look at numerous Olympians, Paralympians and top quality competition from throughout the United Kingdom and Europe in motion. However it used to be the performances of the house athletes that took centre degree.
Best of the invoice used to be Alessandro Schenini. He broke the Scottish indoor report, and Scottish local report, within the males’s lengthy leap, achieving out to 7.86m and going 5 centimetres additional than Darren Ritchie’s earlier mark. The Giffnock North athlete used to be adopted by means of fellow countrymen Stephen Mackenzie (7.78m) and Murray Fotheringham (7.72m).
Alyson Bell (Bobby Gavin)
At the observe, Alyson Bell took the plaudits after finishing an outstanding 60m and 200m dash double. Within the shorter dash, the Scot were given the photograph end verdict and secured the Scottish local report after she and Pleasure Eze each clocked 7.33. It wasn’t lengthy prior to Bell used to be in complete float once more, profitable the ladies’s 200m in 23.45.
Any other spotlight of the night time got here all the way through the boys’s 1500m, which used to be gained by means of Joe Wigfield in 3:37.72 forward of Archie Davis’ 3:38.58. 3rd-placed Kane Elliott broke the Scottish local report for the gap together with his run of three:40.75, reducing a mark that had stood for 28 years.
Kane-Elliott (Bobby Gavin)
Somewhere else, Irish two-time Ecu relay gold medallist Sharlene Mawdsley regarded sharp within the ladies’s 400m, clocking a PB of 51.69 to edge out British coaching spouse Lina Nielsen’s 51.86. Each had been within the qualifying requirements for subsequent month’s Ecu Indoor Championships.
Ava Lloyd, coaching spouse to Keely Hodgkinson on the M11 Monitor Membership, gained the ladies’s 800m in 2:05.13, edging out Hannah Cameron (2:05.87), whilst Denmark’s Simon Hansen gained the boys’s 60m in 6.69 and British Paralympian Zac Shaw led house a males’s Para 60m combined classification race in 7.22.
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