Claire Gibson became the ninth Scot to post the Commonwealth Games qualifying standard when she won the 800 metres last night at Oslo's Bislett Games, writes Doug Gillon.

Claire Gibson became the ninth Scot to post the Commonwealth Games qualifying standard when she won the 800 metres last night at Oslo's Bislett Games, writes Doug Gillon.

The Kilbarchan woman, a 26-year-old fitness trainer, led from the start, reached the bell in 60.27sec, and won in 2min 01.42sec, 0.38 inside the qualifying mark for Delhi.This ranks fifth in Britain (the others are all under two minutes) this year, and sets up what should be a showpiece race at next weekend's World trials in Birmingham.

There was encouraging 1500m progress for Colin McCourt, coached at Dundee Hawkhill by former World 10k champion Liz McColgan. He was fifth in 3:37.55, fastest time of his career.

But a wet evening proved dismal for Britain's Olympic and World 400m champion Chris Ohuruogu, running only her second race this year. Sanya Richards, beaten into third in Beijing, gave the Londoner a resounding hiding. The American won in a meeting record of 49.23, which is 0.39 faster than Ohuruogu's gold-medal run in China and the world's best this year. Ohuruogu was sixth with a pedestrian 51.19.

Kenenisa Bekele stayed on course for the Golden League $1m jackpot with 5000m victory in 13:04.87, but Mo Farah's British record hopes were dashed by the weather. He was eleventh in 13:12.28, Europe's best this summer.

Jackpot hopes are also alive for Yelena Isinbayeva (pole vault, 4.71m) but only on countback, and Kerron Stewart (100m, 10.99).

Allan Scott was seventh in the 110m hurdles (13.90) with Andy Turner second in 13.44.