Eight Scots have been included in GB’s team for next month’s World Athletics Championships, including debutants Megan Keith and Alyson Bell.
Spearheading the Scottish contingent is medal hopeful Laura Muir but there are several more Scots who will head to Budapest for the Championships which begin on the 19th of August with aspirations of grabbing a spot on the podium.
Muir will be aiming to continue the form which has seen her pick up six major championship 1500m medals in the past two years and after a slow start to this season, appears to be hitting peak fitness at just the right time having broken the British mile record last weekend.
Muir’s close friend Jemma Reekie will go in the 800m having appeared to have recovered from her disappointing 2022 season and is close to the form that saw her narrowly miss out on Olympic silverware in 2021. If she can produce her best in Budapest, she will almost certainly be challenging for medals.
In the men’s 1500m, world champion Jake Wightman is missing having been forced to sit out this entire season through injury but both Josh Kerr and Neil Gourley have ambitions to challenge for silverware.
In the longer distances, Keith will make her GB debut at a senior track championships having previously won international honours in cross-country.
The 21-year-old is selected for the 5000m after becoming European under-23 champion at the distance earlier this month.
Eilish McColgan is selected in the 10,000m while Bell, who will make her GB debut alongside Keith, is selected for the 4x100m relay squad. And completing the Scottish representation is Nicole Yeargin, who's selected for the 4x400m and mixed relay squads.
Also included in the GB team are sprinters Zharnel Hughes, who is the fastest man in the world this year and former world 200m champion, Dina Asher-Smith, as well as world and Olympic 800m medallist, Keely Hodginkson.
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