Data fell and Scottish athletes stood out because the inaugural Occasions for Athletics Promotion (EAP) Indoor Worldwide Meet happened in Glasgow on Sunday (February 2).
A crowd of round 1100 descended on the Emirates Area, venue for final yr’s World Athletics Indoor Championships, to look at various Olympians, Paralympians and prime quality opponents from throughout the UK and Europe in motion. However it was the performances of the house athletes that took centre stage.
High of the invoice was Alessandro Schenini. He broke the Scottish indoor document, and Scottish native document, within the males’s lengthy soar, 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 obtained 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 stream once more, profitable the ladies’s 200m in 23.45.
One other spotlight of the night got here in the course of 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 document for the space together 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 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 Observe Membership, gained the ladies’s 800m in 2:05.13, edging out Hannah Cameron (2:05.87), whereas Denmark’s Simon Hansen gained the boys’s 60m in 6.69 and British Paralympian Zac Shaw led house a males’s Para 60m blended classification race in 7.22.
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