As traditional, selecting the winner for the 4J Scottish Athlete of the Yr shall be extraordinarily robust after one other spectacular season.
Mountain runner Scout Adkin is up in opposition to 4 center distance runners in Josh Kerr, Laura Muir, Neil Gourley and Jemma Reekie for the award.
Kerr replicated Jake Wightman in beating Jakob Ingebrigtsen to the world 1500m title, in Budapest.
Each Muir and Gourley achieved nice success on the European Indoors with the previous turning into 1500m champion and the latter a silver medallist over the gap.
Muir overtook Colin Jackson and Jason Gardner in turning into the primary ever Brit to say 5 European Indoor gold medals. She additionally ran 3:55.16 on the Diamond League remaining in Oregon – her second quickest time after the three:54.40 that acquired her an Olympic silver medal in Tokyo – and set a British mile document of 4:15.24 in Monaco.
Jemma Reekie (NYRR)
One in every of Reekie’s season highlights got here on the New York fifth Avenue Mile the place she retained her title within the Huge Apple. Again to a few of her finest kind, Reekie additionally set her quickest 800m because the Tokyo Olympics, clocking 1:57.30 to win the London Diamond League.
Adkin, a nationwide cross nation champion, helped the British crew win silver and bronze medals on the 2023 World Mountain and Path Working Championships.
The nominations for Para Athlete of the Yr shall be equally tough to decide on.
Gavin Drysdale claimed a second world title of his profession with T72 100m gold on the World Para Championships in Paris.
At those self same championships, Sammi Kinghorn received the world T53 100m title and acquired two T53 400m and 800m silver medals.
Sammi Kinghorn (Getty)
Ben Sandilands additionally broke his European document to say the world T20 1500m crown in Paris.
Eilidh Doyle received the Scottish Athlete of the Yr award no fewer than 4 occasions in an illustrious profession on the monitor. This time round she’ll be selecting the winners.
“It has been one other terrific yr for our athletes (and their coaches) at numerous ranges and age teams,” stated Doyle.
“One have a look at the Athlete of the Yr short-lists will let you know that and simply as one instance within the Para class now we have three world champions from Paris.
“So a world champion, or fairly two of them, will miss out on Scottish Para Athlete of the Yr so that may be a fairly excessive bar being set.
“Within the Athlete of the Yr record there are 5 athletes nominated and there are all kinds of medals and data concerned there.”
Eilidh Doyle (Mark Shearman)
The Scottish Athletics awards aren’t nearly athletes – there shall be acknowledgement, too, for coaches, golf equipment, officers and volunteers.
“We’re trying ahead to an awesome night time after success however I believe it is usually essential we have a good time the contributions of so many individuals in our sport,” added Doyle.
“It’s one thing I’ve come to understand extra since I retired to be completely trustworthy. You might be very targeted as an athlete however I see now the large work put in by volunteers to create the correct pathway.
“Now we have that right here in Scotland in the meanwhile and that’s very a lot due to golf equipment, coaches and officers making a large contribution.”
4J Athlete of the Yr
Scout Adkin; Neil Gourley; Josh Kerr; Laura Muir; Jemma Reekie
4J Para Athlete of the Yr
Gavin Drysdale; Samantha Kinghorn; Ben Sandilands
U20 Athlete of the Yr
Caleb McLeod; Dean Patterson; Natasha Phillips
U17 Athlete of the Yr
Millie McClelland-Brooks; Oliver Patton; Louis Whyte
Masters Athlete of the Yr
Andy Douglas; Paul Forbes; Alastair Walker
Particulars on the 4J Annual Awards Dinner might be discovered right here
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